Current Events > The amount of fake job listings on Indeed is driving me insane.

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Saw a new listing from a somewhat local company looking for someone with my skills. I looked up the company and only two people work there, and the listed address is a large supermarket.

Just last week I applied for a temp job and the staffing agent gave me a call and casually explained that coincidentally the day I applied, the job "now exists in a different state" and are only looking for applicants who live in said state.

This job hunt is starting to make me hopeless.

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You should get a job finding people jobs

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I think Indeed is mosty set up to sell your information.
I know it destroyed my otherwise clean Email address.

Best advice, hit the pavement.
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SiO4 posted...

Best advice, hit the pavement.

Terrible advice

SiO4 posted...

Best advice, hit the pavement.

This hasn't worked in years. My previous employer would literally turn down every single person who walked in asking about a job; their logic being "if they had any sense they'd just apply online".

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What drives me nuts is the amount of copy/paste job postings (where companies literally just copy/paste a standard description and put 0 effort into it, so it's not an accurate description) and postings that are marked as being in your city, but are actually based in some other state but use a "nationwide" keyword or something so they show up.

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The Nintendo Master posted...

What drives me nuts is the amount of copy/paste job postings (where companies literally just copy/paste a standard description and put 0 effort into it, so it's not an accurate description) and postings that are marked as being in your city, but are actually based in some other state but use a "nationwide" keyword or something so they show up.

Or 10 different staffing agencies posting the same job.

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I like these jobs that say "up to" $200,000 lmao yeah right. Just say what it really means.

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CRON posted...

This hasn't worked in years. My previous employer would literally turn down every single person who walked in asking about a job; their logic being "if they had any sense they'd just apply online".

It kind of depends where you live.
Where I live that is a good way, depending on what you want to do.
Also, a Meh Job can lead to a lot of networking.
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SiO4 posted...

It kind of depends where you live.
Where I live that is a good way, depending on what you want to do.
Also, a Meh Job can lead to a lot of networking.

I live in a fairly large, dense area somewhat close to a major city. It's to the point where even basic retail employers are only interested in hiring teenagers and college kids. I had an interview at a fast food chain where the manager went on a tangent ranting about it.

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I thought every state had a job attracting job applicants, it should be easy to get a job the same day

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SauI_Goodman posted...

I like these jobs that say "up to" $200,000 lmao yeah right. Just say what it really means.

I have a job. The salary range is $8.00 - $50.00 an hour!*

*Everyone starts at $8.00 an hour.

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Indeed is fucking awful

Just think about it: if Indeed actually got you a decent job, they would lose money. Like most things under American capitalism, there's more money made in pretending to solve a problem than actually solving a problem.

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Use LinkedIn and let people come to you. My wife had a recruiter contact her and set her up with a 95K job as a Salesforce admin and she hadn't even got her certification yet. (She has it now)