Really, why are we accepting the current job market as it is? I just cannot understand any logic using ATS systems. Removal of people in the pipeline on steroids.
Requirements of ATS systems
- Read every job description, fully.
- Customize every resume submitted to match unknown specific keywords and phrased. You only have the job description to figure it out.
- Include keywords not only from the requirements, but
- Duties, Company claimed environment, etc.
- Of course all work should show metrics of improvement. How you do this and prove those metrics is beyond me. That data belongs to my employer, not me and in most cases I cannot produce them.
- Write a custom cover letter explaining why you want to work for them. How, is beyond me as you know nothing about the reality of any claim they make. It is like writing a fairy tale for a fairy tale.
Once all done here, now research more of the company before you hit apply. Refine if you find something better than what is in the job description. I assume by this time you are through lunch and coming back to do the research. With luck, you’re done by supper. Experience tells me you’re working late.
Now that is done, per unemployment requirements; the next four days are planned as you have to apply to five per week to keep receiving benefits. Your work week is gone.
You wait, for maybe a rejection, more times than not you won’t hear any response. Enter the average recruiter who will now give you a “You Rah, Rah” session. These tell you to think of no response as “practice” and then say keep going. Really?
How about all those people saying they have the solution to get a job in today’s job market? Yet, everyone is still looking for work. I guess they don’t have the solution they claim they do.
Does anyone understand anymore who is in the hiring pipeline, other than those looking for work that we need JOBS not cheer sessions. We don’t need a promise of a solution we need a. SOLUTION.
What we see fits today in how people think. They love to talk about problems and claim solutions, yet no one changes or fixes anything. The demand is you figure them out.
No one talks about the age factor today. Well they do, but want to talk about age discrimination at age 40. Really? If you think finding your next job is impacted by age at 40 do you even stop to think what it is like when you are 65?
If this comes off as frustrated, good! You got my point.
Here is my you rah, rah. Sometimes frustration is the only way to find real solutions and stop talking about problems.