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Career catfishing: why gen Z accept job offers – then ghost their new employers
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Probably at least partly AI generated. GMG has signed a deal with OpenAI and used LLMs for strike breaking.
Why do you think the news has gone to hell? Anyone with any sense headed to the exits years ago.
When are you going to start your own blog or something, Pete? I'd sign up.
Yeah, it's a nightmare looking for jobs online right now. You could not design a system more unfriendly to neurodivegent people if you tried, it's miserable to use your limited focus to put together a very effortful thing and it's just being tossed in the blender.
You're expected to tailor your resume, re-enter your resume information, pass personality tests, prove you have years of experience for an entry level position, make yourself maximally available for interviews, risk scams and exposing your information to botnets, write cover letters that are never read, do research into the company to be prepared to show interest in it- only to just... Never even hear back
I have never felt more like an animal performing for the amusing of a jeering, abusive crowd that this.
You should really experience my ex-wife, then. Makes all of this almost seem tolerable.
Yeah that tolerance seems to be an absurd price to pay just to not be affected psychologically by this terrible job market that seems intentionally malicious.
It's bad, but in a lot of ways, I've given up on looking for a better job. I do go back to it from time to time, but it leaves me feeling depressed and stressed for the entire week before and after. It's so hard to find something that I "fit" with.
The current online application processes are terrible