Employers, WHY are you making it so hard for people to get a job?

6 Comments

1. Focused541800December 8,2025 at 3:08PM UTC

   Exactly

2. AnonymousDecember 8,2025 at 6:25PM UTC

   Great question! The whole system needs an overhaul; all of the hoops people jump through these days, the multiple interviews only to be ghosted, not even a rejection email but no job either, are "for the birds" as my mother used to say. You would think that with all that vetting over and over again, every employer would have only the very best, most talented employees, but that simply isn't the case. Part of the problem is relying on something not human to make human decisions (such as scanning resumes to see who even gets an interview), and part of it is erroneously assuming that more is better. When someone has to go through 5+ interviews to get a job that barely pays over minimum wage, it wastes everyone's time and does not cause positive feelings toward employers. If you want employees who will do their best work, pay them decently and treat them how YOU would want to be treated.

3. AnonymousDecember 11,2025 at 10:51AM UTC

   News flash: with many politicians, the saying that you can tell whether they are lying by checking if their mouth is open is accurate. Still no sign of the Epstein files and check your grocery and gas receipts to see if you're paying less than last year. When everyone is worried about money and is cutting back, the economy suffers and there are fewer jobs created. It's a vicious cycle. If billionaires paid their fair share of taxes and all jobs paid a living wage, we wouldn't be in this situation.

4. Barbara M.December 11,2025 at 1:04PM UTC

   Because entering your work history on your resume AND again on the application apparently builds character. However, on a more serious note -- It shouldn’t be this complicated. A more human, transparent process would strengthen both the candidate experience and the quality of hires.

5. AnonymousDecember 15,2025 at 1:15PM UTC

   They are either being outsourced or replaced by the new god, AI. Corporations are glomming onto both of these tactics to keep their shareholders (read the rich) happy and to hell with the rest of us. None of the job numbers coming out of the government for the last 10 months are reliable. It's all smoke and mirrors. We are being offered up on the altar of the Rich and AI.

6. AnonymousDecember 16,2025 at 10:39PM UTC

   That's just to force candidates to accept terms that are more favorable to employers such as crappier pay (aka lower salaries expense), fewer benefits (aka lower benefits expenses), and temporary work (once again, lower salaries expenses). If you make the job market oversaturated with super-qualified candidates, then no one's super-qualified. It's very predatory behavior.

   That gives employers the ability to be incredibly picky. Therefore, they can offer underpaying jobs to highly qualified but desperate candidates whose rent/mortgage deadline is approaching fast. Employers don't want something like the 2021-early 2022 job market, where applicants had so much leverage that they could afford to turn down mediocre job offers to get better offers that would pay them what their qualifications are worth. This is an ideal job market for employers. That's also why you'll often hear about Computer Science or Marketing grads working in retail, food service, hospitality, or customer service for $40,000/year instead of, for example, entry-level IT jobs at Google or marketing jobs at CitiBank for >$85,000/year, for example.

   Let's say you've been laid off from your $150,000/year software developer job at Uber, Amazon, Google, Facebook, or another one of these faceless tech firms. You have 3 years of work experience in your field, yet you couldn't land a job in a tech firm even if your life depended on it (which it kinda does, given how terrible homelessness and poverty are). Somehow, there's always, ALWAYS a more qualified candidate. But, you've finally landed a $20/hr job as a front desk associate at Marriott. Going from $150,000/year to ~$40,000/year is a pretty nasty hit to your annual earnings. But, if your rent is due next month, would you turn it down? I wouldn't. I'd take it and then keep looking (or switch to a new field if nothing's working out).

   "When everyone's super, no one will be." - Syndrome from The Incredibles