Current Events > Modern day job hunting

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>70+ years of experience required
>Lays anyone off over the age of 65 to avoid paying benefits
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>Asks for 50+ years of programming experience in a language that came out in the 1990s
>Hiring manager is a drug addicted high school dropout
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For people like me who have no relationships or friends it's ridiculous.
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It's not that difficult
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>Ph.D in physics minimum job requirement
>Job is cleaning toilets and making people tea
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ManBeast462 posted...

It's not that difficult

Then give me your connections bro
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if only you had some form of universal basic income to help you through these tough times
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GregShmedley posted...

Expected something to do with how everything is online. I feel I had better experience with paper apps handed in to the manager to be honest.

>"Online applications only"
>Have filters on that send resumes straight to garbage inbox
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>12 week unpaid summer internship for college kids
>3 years experience required

Not even exaggerating.
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deupd_u posted...

>12 week unpaid summer internship for college kids
>3 years experience required

Not even exaggerating.

>Offers "competitive salary and benefits package"
>After completing minimum 20 year unpaid internship probationary period
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>Makes you go through 38 rounds of interviews
>"Sorry but we have hired the CEOs son for that position"
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You've GOT to network nowadays to get a foot in the door. Its not "advantageous" or "beneficial", it's ESSENTIAL.

Do internships, volunteer in your field. Other people are so if you don't how do you expect to compete?

>Entry level job requires unpaid internship experience to qualify
>Unpaid internship also requires unpaid internship experience to qualify
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>Requires 80 years experience
>Hiring manager is 12 years old
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Tc go Netflix and chill clearly the working world is not for you.
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>Minimum 6900 years experience
>Minimum 500 years of paid internship, as in, you pay us for the opportunity to be our intern
>PhD in mathematics, philosophy, theoretical physics, partical physics, biochem, and theology required. Must also have some sort of medical degree
>Job is flipping burgers
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Do you have a job, tc?
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LordRazziel posted...

Do you have a job, tc?

How can I when job requirements look like this:

Bluster posted...

>Minimum 6900 years experience
>Minimum 500 years of paid internship, as in, you pay us for the opportunity to be our intern
>PhD in mathematics, philosophy, theoretical physics, partical physics, biochem, and theology required. Must also have some sort of medical degree
>Job is flipping burgers

This is why I NEED universal basic income
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Then why do you make topics about jobless losers on CE all the time?
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Yeah programming jobs have pretty absurd requirements given how brain dead most CRUD jobs are in reality. Plus you have to spend months grinding leetcode and etc for the algorithms test during the interview lol. It's okay I suppose just to weed out people who are too incompetent to even be trusted to develop CRUD.
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I miss the paper application days. That way people could see who was applying.
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LordRazziel posted...

Then why do you make topics about jobless losers on CE all the time?

I have no idea what you're talking about...I've done no such thing
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REMercsChamp posted...

>Entry level job requires unpaid internship experience to qualify
>Unpaid internship also requires unpaid internship experience to qualify

lmao
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To be honest reading this topic is scaring me as a 21 year old who's going to transfer to University next next year. I really don't want to get $50,000+ in debt only to not even be able to find a job.

This is a meta topic. Bravo.

>PhD in Electrical Engineering required, 10 years experience
>CEO's ex convict, high school dropout son gets hired instead

Not exaggerating either

NathanX95 posted...

To be honest reading this topic is scaring me as a 21 year old who's going to transfer to University next next year. I really don't want to get $50,000+ in debt only to not even be able to find a job.

Do what Ash said and network. nepotism runs the world even our government bows to it.
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>Job duties include: ending world hunger, curing cancer
>2,000 years experience as Jesus Christ required

pay: minimum wage
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The Eko posted...

>Job duties include: ending world hunger, curing cancer
>2,000 years experience as Jesus Christ required

pay: minimum wage

lol
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A lot of those job 'requirements' are not requirements. They are put in place to prevent just anyone from applying. Higher standards keep applications down; making it easier to make a selection.

Lets not forget that most jobs are NOT advertised publicly. You are better off looking into companies you want to work for; and applying.
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bump
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I've never networked or had a connection in order to get a job. I just mass applied until enough companies called back
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I tend to agree with this thread, however, in my experience, applying to jobs that require a minimum of 3-5 years of experience is possible. I just graduated college and applied to a lot of jobs requiring 3-5 years and got calls back.
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Conflict posted...

NathanX95 posted...

To be honest reading this topic is scaring me as a 21 year old who's going to transfer to University next next year. I really don't want to get $50,000+ in debt only to not even be able to find a job.

What's your major?

Sorry for the late response, but it's linguistics.

NathanX95 posted...

Conflict posted...

NathanX95 posted...

To be honest reading this topic is scaring me as a 21 year old who's going to transfer to University next next year. I really don't want to get $50,000+ in debt only to not even be able to find a job.

What's your major?

Sorry for the late response, but it's linguistics.

Pair it with CS and you'll be fine. NLP is a hot field but you need to know programming, algorithms and ML for it. Linguistics is a cool field, lots of overlap with CS interestingly enough.
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>job title: dishwasher

>experience needed: 2 years minimum

ive seen this on craigslist in nyc a lot of times
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Ya, entry level jobs are hardly "entry level" anymore. I got lucky with my job...and its not even in my field..... It just pays decently.

IllegalAlien posted...

NathanX95 posted...

Conflict posted...

NathanX95 posted...

To be honest reading this topic is scaring me as a 21 year old who's going to transfer to University next next year. I really don't want to get $50,000+ in debt only to not even be able to find a job.

What's your major?

Sorry for the late response, but it's linguistics.

Pair it with CS and you'll be fine. NLP is a hot field but you need to know programming, algorithms and ML for it. Linguistics is a cool field, lots of overlap with CS interestingly enough.

Thanks for the advice, and I'm finishing up my first programming class this week. And I didn't even know about NLP, I read a bit up on it and it seems really interesting.

REMercsChamp posted...

>Makes you go through 38 rounds of interviews
>"Sorry but we have hired the CEOs son for that position"

Welcome to human civilization - circa ~5000 BC.
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You really flip flop a lot on your political views.
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Gravityfare posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

>Makes you go through 38 rounds of interviews
>"Sorry but we have hired the CEOs son for that position"

Welcome to human civilization - circa ~5000 BC.

>Requires 20+ years coding in java, C#, python,Perl combined with experience in senior level management roles, Ph.D in computer science
>CEO: "Your job will be making my son tea for minimum wage"
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I don't even think anyone seriously reads most job applications these days. From what I can tell, everyone I've asked just complains about how many applications they get, let the application tracking system filter most them out, re-post the job for months on end, then eventually hire someone's friend/relative. The modern job market is basically a compilation of incompetence, broken logic, & nepotism.
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