i saw someone on twitter saying to “leverage your network” i’d sooner leverage a shotgun into my mouth jesus fucking christ
plus all this is meant to be done at a time when you’re likely at your lowest confidence, most insecure, and most desperate.
just the idea that it’s my job to sell myself to these sorts of business goons who ENJOY seeing people desperate and on edge is so sick. i have nothing to sell, i am not a commodity, i am a human being. and everything’s ran thru some shitty AI now i’m sure. like the applications weren’t demeaning enough.
can’t we all just be assigned jobs by the government? it’d build social cohesion. like the hunger games. maybe you can opt out but I’d rather take my chances than answer these fucking personality tests or get so hopeless i’m actually applying for something with hours I hate with a miserable commute with a terrible wage which ALSO won’t hire me
It mostly sounds like you are trying to justify inaction.
Posting on lemmy certainly isn’t going to help.
There’s countless jobs, it’s not that bad. Typically if you aren’t getting at least some emails back it means your resume has some serious issues and needs fixing.
Pretty much everytime this comes up, the persons resume is very poorly setup and it’s obviously why they aren’t getting callbacks. Wrong formatting, not parseable, not straight to the point, not scannable, meanders, skips over critical information…
That or the person admits they haven’t been putting cover letters on the applications.