Job Hunting

Nowadays, is it harder to get work than it used to be?

This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://www.quora.com/Nowadays-is-it-harder-to-get-work-than-it-used-to-be/answer/Antonio-Amaral-1“

Yes, because the entire market and the processes for hiring have been dumbed down to a series of checkboxes applied to humans in ways that devalue their experience and expertise to meet psychopathic parameters, allowing hiring personnel to envision unicorns while fixated on checkboxes and ignoring the human beings they’re evaluating for roles they don’t understand or care about.

No one seems willing or capable of hiring humans since they prefer hiring aesthetic packages they expect will meet the minimum requirements to function like a robot without agency or capacity for judgments outside parameters established by misanthropes with money who have no clue what they’re looking for and have no respect for what individuals are capable of offering.

Fewer and fewer people are willing to tolerate life as a robot, even if it means food insecurity, because at the end of one’s life, existence is not enough, and to destroy the ineffable character of one’s life to submit to a role to discover at the end of all that effort that rewards are less than meagre is just not worth perpetuating a parasitic system.

This is why “quiet quitting” has become a thing. This is why people are complaining that no one wants to work.

Of course, no one wants to “work” — sublimate themselves to a robotic existence that dehumanizes everything about them to maintain an unfulfilling and crushing existence.

People would otherwise throw themselves into their work if it brought them the value it promises.

Decades of these bait-and-switch manipulations of people can only naturally result in the wholesale rejection of a corrupt paradigm.

Capitalists should have taken more time to consider the benefits of destroying a working class that worked to elevate their lifestyles into the stratosphere before cutting them down to find themselves plummeting to their doom. They’re just getting what they wanted without realizing they didn’t want what they thought they wanted.

Why is Gen Z struggling with employment?

Genz Contemplating a Rapidly Changing Future

It’s not just GenZ.

The entire employment system is broken.

Many places advertising for employees aren’t actually looking to hire people inasmuch as conducting market surveys.

Many employers are so used to seeing hundreds of applications today that they narrow their vision for what they’re looking for on such strict parameters that they forget they are hiring people and not selecting machines.

Employers often over-rely on agencies who aren’t in the least interested in team building or cultural fits but in spotting skill sets to narrow their candidate lists by algorithms rather than people exercising their judgements.

Most applications are ruled out before any human sees them and are ruled out by humans if their applications aren’t formatted in the manner they expect.

Companies will often advertise for people “who think outside the box” but are so intimidated by outside-the-box thinkers when they interview them that they immediately reject that candidate.

Making matters worse for people in technical professions is having their skills evaluated by people without technical expertise, who judge the candidate based on the limits of their ignorance. They’re incapable of comprehending what skills are transferable and how they contribute toward success in a different area.

Even worse are companies that place upper limits on the experience they’re willing to accept, which rules out highly experienced candidates. Meanwhile, they also often advertise a requirement of years of experience in a technology that’s only been on the market for a few months.

Then they complain, after ruling out qualified candidates, that they can’t find anyone to hire because no one wants to work anymore.

Many unemployed people struggle to find work while being rejected outright because they don’t fit neatly into narrow boxes of expectations defined by ignorance and bias rather than insight.

GenZ may be experiencing struggles unique to their stage in the employment mill, but the overall employment system has massively degraded over the last several decades.

I’ve been struggling for ten years now to land a simple junior-level job in graphic production work to regain balance after having a thirty-year career as an independent professional destroyed by people who are supposed to protect and serve, not scapegoat for political gain.