This Is Why You Can’t Find A Job
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It's amazing how many loopholes you have to jump through to get a job that you actually qualify for.
Basically this…literally get passed over because you are qualified for a technical role but you use the competing software that does the EXACT SAME THING as the software they want you to use on the job…same functionality…
HR Ditz: Ewww, you only have experience drinking Pepsi…we need someone who drinks Coca Cola…How would you know how to drink cola otherwise?
Getting a job is now less about knowing your job, and more about knowing application loopholes.
Why would u want to work for a company like that period
@@SantaAnaCreations cause we out here starving
We’re all victims of a perfect scam.
"no one wants to work" says the employer that won't interview 99% of applicants
What they mean is, "no one wants to min-max my profit margin at their expense anymore :("
@@halowafflesthat part! O, u applied 4 a m-f job BUT we hav mandatory ot on sat (n sumtimes sun, tho, "we havent done that n years..."). Don't work the mandatory ot, ull b written up n fired. Need a day off, request it a month n advance BUT only find out if its approved the day b4. Dont come n (bcuz u NEEDED the day off) ull b on a final. These companies r straight trash n no, we r tired of the bs. Ive NEVER had a vacation n im 4 decades n this bs
@@Fentoniousnaw, the "menz" r grapists wit state sanctioned impunity. No, we "cant find a man"
@Fentonious for real lol. Ignoring the 2000 men in her tinder DM's
@@CalebsAquarium lol, it's called standards. 🍎 & 🍊 here
I miss the 1980s where you’d walk in and just fill out a paper application. Sometimes you’d get an interview that day and land the job on the spot. Ah the good old days.
It worked in the 90's too. I remember going to a Manufacturing company my senior year of college just to pick up an application. I was told to take a seat in the lobby when about 10 minutes later the HR manager came down and took me in for an interview. I apologized for not wearing a suit and explained I wasn't expecting to get interviewed the same day. She didn't seem to mind and I was hired to work in their marketing department. I miss the days before the internet
Yes the good ole days !
Totally agree!
@@marmosetmannot me! 2009 just graduated college, dropped resumes in every office around town, didn’t get a single call back.
A lot of places still had paper applications when I started job hunting at 16 and now very few places have them 14 years later
But my grandpa told me that all it takes is a firm handshake😢
Lol
This made my night lol
...he said that because that's how your Grandma got the job.
Im fully convinced these companies are just taking your applications, and then selling your personal data off of them.
It’s truly horrible but I agree with you.
100% . You have to agree to there terms of service before you can submit the application
Also yes. Never talk to any U.K. based head hunter, they are all frauds.
At least that opens up a possible channel of attack: completely bogus resumés from millions of people pissing in the PII database.
Duuuuuuuuuude I never thought of that but I really think you are right! Like disgustingly horribly right. Totally shitty man. 😢
There's also the documented fact that a large proportion of the jobs advertised aren't actually available.
Often companies have a small pool of known candidates they want to hire from, but want to give the illusion that the job is open to competitive candidates. I don’t know if it’s a regulatory loophole, but I wish companies would just hire who they want for the job and not waste peoples time if they already know who is getting the job.
Lmfao no, developers are in massive shortage
@jord019 You're not disproving the point with your one example of a job in demand. You would know about edge cases if you were a dev.
@@coreybuchanan776it _is_ a regulatory loophole, in the US at least. I might have some details wrong, but I think in order to pass Equal Employment Opportunity regulations, they have to make it public.
@@jord019 In about 5 years we will have such a surplus it won't even be funny. AI will make jobs that took 5-10 developers only need 1. That is on top of the fact that every year more and more computer science majors are being pumped out. As well as with remote push will allow non Americans to take those jobs for pennies. I wouldn't be surprised if developer salary goes down to like 50k max in silicon valley.
*Entry Level Job*
Requirements:
_- Bachelor's_
_- Five years experience_
This is why people are homeless 🙄 and can't able to support themselves.
More like 10 years.
This is also the requirement for a lot of working student positions I see. Overqualified and extremely underpaid
Probably only a handful of worthwhile employers who scooped up the hard working employees. The ones that were fired or harassed because they tried to improve things. Because someone felt they or their authority were being undermined.
Not necessarily..... You don't know how many jobs I have applied to in the last 4 years, that usually say you don't have to have a bachelor's. Oftentimes it just says you have to have a freaking high school diploma..... But back before the regime got in, and back before I actually was finishing my degree, they kept saying on most job descriptions that you needed a bachelor's and now it's saying the opposite. We are just in clown world and we have to wait for things to change in this country.
"how to steal a house" 💀😂
"penetration testing"
@@miaugato93 What have you got against Pen Testers? That's an important job in the netsec industry. It's far better to pay somebody to find the vulnerabilities in the network before it's exploited.
Imagine how much talent gets tossed in favor of people who know how to farm keywords.
I'd assume that those people who are interested in the job might also be the ones who avoid just copy-pasting the keywords to the application, and come up with an authentic (ie. different) way of explaining why they are interested and qualified.
@@metheiam5714 Oh you sweet summer child. If only that was how it worked.
@@metheiam5714 Bless your heart
@@vvoof2601oh you sweet spoiled brat, that's EXACTLY how it works.
Imagine how many hours of interviews with spoiled brats like you a company avoids by doing this. If you were as talented as you think you are, you would realize that the face to face interviews will weed out the unqualified people who just pasted keywords like you claim.
“Everywhere is hiring, you’re just too lazy”
Everywhere:
I once filled out 42 applications in the span of a month. I got 2 emails and 1 phone call. 1 job was a total scam, 1 made a bunch of weird excuses not to hire me, and the last one just didn't fit my schedule.
“No one wants to work” yeah no. No one wants to hire. Hundreds of applications in the last 6 months and I haven’t gotten a single call back
Your parents didn't have bs like this. They showed up in person every time.
@@wrongthinker843 That’s what I’m about to do. Walk up to this restaurant close to my place and ask if they’re hiring. Will even bring my resume
@@ambersummer2685 Best of luck!
Out of all the bs reels and tic tok videos and mindless material we consume, thank you for making something truly important
I was in Recruitment for 4 years. I advocated our department heads hard to prevent automated screening like he’s describing. I initially let it be automated, then pulled resumes only out of the discarded bucket. When we hired enough people, and the dept head mentioned the automation, I said I’d actually pulled them from the ones it discarded. We then tried to tighten it up, but nothing was able to catch what a human was looking for. The automation was turned off after a while, and is still not in use today. It does take the Recruiters a bit more time to find great resumes in the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of apps we get, but we don’t lose quality.
Not every hero wears a cape.
I like how humans have literally innovated ourselves into making life harder than it needs to be.
💯
in like 50 years trying to get a job is gonna be sitting front row watching different software fight each other
He says while typing onto a computer in his pocket connected to millions of other pocket computers while never once having to hunt for survival or flee from wild animals and bands of hostile fellow humans.
@yacobz yeah, cause you definitely have had to do any of that. Look at you tough guy, you're so tough. You're so much better than us mere mortals. Forgive me of the mortal sin of, *gasps*, making an observation.
PS: I actually typed it on a computer I personally built, not my phone. I also severely limit my use of the internet which is more than I can say for your Tik Tok addicted ass. Tell you're a trust fund baby, without telling me you're a trust fund baby.
@@yolow5497 Lol I can just see it now, it's going to be like battlebots, but with software. You only get the job if your AI model wins against the other ones.
Hot tip: if you're struggling to fit all their shitty keywords into your CV, just make a transparent textbox and put all those words in white/background colour behind all your main text. Landed me too many recruitment calls when I did it 😂
This is next-level. Heck yeah! Use the system against itself, _make_ a human put their eyeballs on your application! 🔥🔥🔥
Dude this is smart, ty.
You beat me to it
Now that's a hot tip 😂😂
White text..i love it.
imagine being a company and thinking this kind of system results in your getting "the people we want" rather than incentivizing people to lie to actually reach a set of human eyes.
I was on a training course once, and the Guy leading the thing was telling a story that a busy boss once asked his secretary to sift through all the job applications that were on her desk and bring him the best ones. She chose all the ones on coloured paper because they were pretty!!
What the actual fuck.
you have to tailor your resume to fit the job description. now do this 50 times a day just for a chance of being interviewed. incredible
Yup you yourself aren’t good enough apparently
@@dougefresh8029Shhh Go back to work.
Don't forget about the mandatory questionnaires, that can take 30+ minutes to complete if you have ADHD like me!
But wait there's more 😲 for only 19.99...
🤭😆
I actually did this for every job I applied to for a month or two last year. Worked to get my resume to 80% match before I submitted the applications. Saw no change at all in the number of interviews I was getting, it was a huge waste of time
APPLYING FOR A JOB SHOULD NOT BE IT'S OWN FULL TIME WORK! DO YOU WANT EMPLOYEES OR NOT?!
They do not. If they do not listen to reason, they won't stop the violence.
they don't, they just want the perks of looking like they're growing while they grind the employees who are already there into the dust.
"Corpsehandler"? Do you work at a morgue?
@@Scythera99 They want employees that are willing to do extra work for the job without being paid. Then when they get to the point of complete exhaustion, they can either force themselves to work for be fired.
“People don’t want to work anymore”
More like companies don’t want to hire anymore
What the hell happened to the old days when you could mail a paper resume to a company and it would land on the desk of someone who would at least read it?
I was one of three people involved in a job selection for a single mid-level job that got OVER EIGHT THOUSAND applications and we had two weeks to choose someone, including interviews and proving we had 'considered' every application.
The only way the resumes could be reduced was to pick the main 3 terms used and search for them digitally. We only opened and read the resumes that used all of the terms, and that was over a thousand. The rest were instant fails because the applicants didn't bother to rewrite a few sentences.
It's very simple, if the job description says (for example) "must have advanced Microsoft Word skills" then you have to say "advanced Microsoft Word" somewhere in your resume. The best thing is to rewrite your resume using the descriptions in the job description.
The sad reality is someone with lesser skills can often get interviewed over a much more experienced person. For example "I'm a Word Genius and won awards for it" probably won't be found but "I have some word experience and am working on developing more advanced Microsoft Word skills" would be considered.
Wow that's some great info. Someone also told me that if the job asks for ie.. 5+ years and you indicate 7, it may not register. Keywords seem to be most important aspect of online applications. I suppose even the least qualified candidate could get their resume through the systematic screening and onto the hiring persons desk just by using keywords well.
Company - "We can't find enough people to hire"
Me - "I'll work for you"
Company - "No, not you"
The girl you like vs her idea of a perfect man
exactly my story
Yeah unless it requires some heavy education there are so many jobs out there people with the strive to work would do perfectly well at, and learn all their roles within a month tops.
People motivated to actually work will always be the best workers even if they haven't ticked all the boxes employers expect. People with experience will expect more and work less the majority of the time.
This seems to reflect how modern women date too, which is an odd parallel I should probably not bring up with mostly women in HR doing hiring lately.
@@im_Carlisle Hey if you can't understand stats, that's your skill deficiency.
Modern women are more single then ever, more miserable then ever, and more pervasive in the hiring process then ever. Correlation is not causation but there is a clear statistical pattern here.
And then you make a custom application with all of the key words, and a cover letter that describes everything the employer has asked for. And then the company sends you an email in 5 months saying that the job you applied for is no longer available.
And then a week later you see a repost of the exact same position.
Exactly
Makes me lose all hope in humanity, because we let computers take humanity out of the equation.
Yup happened to me about 4 times out of the 80+ applications I filled out online.
@@maythesciencebewithyoumy mom had interviews set up about three times in a year and a half for the same job that kept popping up. She applied everytime. The three times she got an interview they’d cancel within two days of when it was scheduled. Claiming they had “chosen to go in a different direction”……. And it’s up again on indeed and zip recruiter.
Dude casually had a tab open "how to steal a house" lol
So just a few years ago I had a company contact me abd ask me to apply after seeing my resume online, i happily agreed. I applied, a week later I get an email saying the company would not be going forward with my application. I called to ask if there was something wrong, it turns out they were searching for a key word just like this guy said but on my resume I used words that were synonyms to that key word. I fixed it, re-applied and was scheduled for an interview in 3 days. Its ridiculous, but this is absolutely true. The bigger the company, the less human eyes will be on your resume until after several automated processes. Also, ifyou really want that job don't be afraid to call them to find out why you were rejected!
So the job market is now not about how well you do the job, its about how well you game the automation.
Work smart, not hard.
You can skip all that, if you network. Getting a foot in the door is still about WHO you know. People need to get from behind their phones, and network while in college.
@@Mercenary-1914Mhh hell yeah, getting employed not based on your skills in the relevant field but based on what friends you have. Doesn't feel great either. But I do encourage anyone who's struggling to try to achieve that, we all deserve to be able to afford, y'know, food for example. Even if we have to do shit that feels unfair to reach that goal.
@@helyphion Respect. You speaking nothing but the truth!
@@helyphion what's more unfair, getting your foot in the door through a college buddy or your fair game cv not getting even read by a human?
if the game is 'who can outbullshit each other' then i'm not playing.
The beginning to think the reason that I find it so hard to succeed and life is not because I'm not a capable human being or have all these different skills, but instead because I simply refused to jump through all these silly hoops that make absolutely no sense and have no actual bearing on competency.
You might be on to something.
You can look at it from this point of view. Or you can look at it that they are looking for somebody who is smart, flexible and can succeed and get things done. And I am not talking about compromising your moral integrity. In teamwork you oftentimes need to do silly stuff because somebody failed something etc. In order to bring the team to final victory. With attitude "I am doing only what I think is important" there is no real teamwork.
@@jenHry-ng3pw Using buzzwords to pass an automated screening process does not indicate good teamwork.
@@jenHry-ng3pwNah, they want to see how well you’ll kiss ass to get a job. If you’ll jump through all the hoops , you’ll be a well trained dog desperate for treats and will do anything to keep it.
@@jenHry-ng3pw Wtf kinda corporate buzz word salad is that? "Final victory"? Buddy, it's a job so you can pay the bills, get food and don't die. Consideration should be awarded to the worker, not the other way around. Since even the best of blue collar jobs gets you a professional disease in a couple of years: destroyed back, carpal tunnel, respiratory problems etc.
As a recruiter, I can confirm this is correct. List your skills at the top of the resume that is what we look for first.
yes, I had the nightmare of over 8,000 applicants for one publicly advertised job with a 2 week turn, around including interviews. The boss wanted to interview no more than 5 people. Whatever we did would always be imperfect.
I miss the old days of walking into a company and filling out an application. It is a job to find a job nowadays.
Honestly, I do feel like this is part of the issue of why "young people don't want to work." Don't make it so hard to get into a job in the first place. (And no I'm not talking about software engineer like Matty has pulled up :) )
Huh most of those places are like McDonald's and Burger King.
You can still do that.
But it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to do it online.
It's really not though. Walking in somewhere and asking to talk to a manager is easier and makes you stand out above the rest. @@YOUR_NARRATOR975
@@mom2artists yeppp I remember applying to 80 or so jobs to get a shitty job at a gas station that I would barely make 100 a week at.
Dont forget, that's assuming the company is ACTUALLY hiring, and aren't just collecting resumes, or using it to tell people the conpany is expanding.
There's also the thing where a company is actually hiring and actually wants new people to recruit...but the HR department couldn't give a shit and doesn't want more work. And hiring people is more work. And since they're not normally on the ground with the other workers, they don't get to see the effects of being short staffed and they don't give a crap about how burnt out everyone else is.
So the HR department will pretend like they're hiring, but really they're just collecting resumes and maybe doing some interviews where they just reject the candidate. Then they convince the company's higher ups that the reason why they're not getting new recruits is because nobody wants to work, when in reality it's because the HR department doesn't want to work.
Ever wonder why you see sometimes ridiculous requirements on postings, like needing 10 years in a coding language that hasn't existed for more than 5? Well, other than the fact that the HR lady who made the requirements doesn't actually know a thing about what the job actually requires, it's because they're not actually trying to hire. They put impossible requirements so they can reject everyone, while putting on the image that they're looking.
Even more likely is that the hiring manager already knows who he's going to hire but has to go trough the "hiring process". Collect resumes, internal and external, do a few interviews, then "select" the person he wanted to hire in the first place. Even better, target the job posting to one specific person. It makes it even more bullet-proof.
At my last job, I WAS that guy. I was a contractor the boss wanted to make permanent but he had to jump through the hoops.
@@kwilliams2239 It's pretty ridiculous that the boss even has to jump through such hoops. If he wants to hire you, then he should be able to hire you. Instead of putting a posting out there to give other candidates a false chance at getting the position.
@@ShadeSlayer1911
The idea isn't all bad. The ol' buddy system doesn't work either. The manager doesn't own the position so that he can hire just anyone (his buddy, the buddy' son, his side piece). What we see is the law of unintended consequences.
and yet just the people who go through these crazy AI-driven loopholes are often underqualified. They will be the ones who get hired.
I wish everything was as simple as before, when my friends and I were at the bar drinking, a truck arrived with a man shouting: "I need a Junior UI/UX Designer, a Python Developer, 2 Sales Closers and a Revenue Manager!", we would jump in the back of the truck and go to Silicon Valley to start a Startup...
Seems legit bro
Look at his second tab "how to steal a house". I can't wait for the next upload 😂
You know. I once asked an HR rep about keywords. Boy was she pissed. She denied denied denied. Called me conspiracy theorist and all that. The amount of gaslighting
Typical woman. That's why they are in hr. They're the worst and I steer clear of those particular jobs.
I noticed people like to use the words "conspiracy theory/ist" as a synonym for "you are wrong", "that's not true", "you are lying". They think "conspiracy theory/ist" means: you are a crazy paranoid liar, when it just means: xyz is a theory about a conspiracy because we don't know for sure if there is really a conspiracy of xyz about xyz, so therefore it's a 'conspiracy theory'.
'Me thinks the lady doeth protest too much.'
If someone in HR gets pissed about that and acts that way, they don't need to work in HR.
@@Yk9oAlthough, scientifically, a theory is provable. So really it should be a conspiracy hypothesist.
Good tips. Part of why people can't find a job despite all the postings is a lot of companies will post 'ghost jobs' with nice salaries but no intentions to hire anyone to make it look like they are growing and paying more than they really are.
They also will post jobs because they have to due to some law, or bylaw, when they fully intend to hire someones friend /nephew etc or promote from within. It allows them to say "we interviewed for such and such amount of time and found no eligible applicants"
@@Moose1207 this is usually for public companies though.
@@X8cY3rP9sF2aZ6qBYou would be surprised to see how common it is and it happens everywhere
thus taking the company down town interns/workres inflating the "crew"
@@Moose1207 or for H1B1 visa applicants that they will hire at much less salary through an agency and have no intent to hire from the pool of US workers, usually that is in IT. I have seen that happen a lot, forget that most of foreign IT are overrated and are rotated from one company to another. Agencies benefit by making 50% of the salaries and companies benefit supposedly by offering less package deals, no benefits and low salaries. And then companies complain about productivity, schmucks.
As someone whos been in the staffing industry for some time, i strongly recommend against willy-nilly adding in key words. Sure, if you have experience you can comfortably speak to related to those key words, go for it. Youre otherwise just setting yourself up for painful interviews. Inb4 "i did this and it worked out fine", i believe you and thats great, but in reality youre hurting yourself more times than not by doing this. Instead, curtail your resume to show impact you made on a job. Dont juat write just "i have experience with x skills, coding kanguages, etc.". Instead, include those notes as applicable, but make the focus of each employment on your resume discussing what your purpose was at that company/positions, what your projects/teams goals were, and how you affected the outcome. THAT will catch a hiring teams eyes. It also serves as a nice interview prep.
I work in HR and to be honest, most people apply to jobs they aren’t qualified for. They could get their foot in the door with a good cover letter but few people actually provide them. We still review every application manually.
Jobs = uses computers to screen applicant resumes
Applicants = uses computers to generate job resumes
The end of Fight Club flashed in my mind
Can't wait for the day where hiring agents are completely automated out of the process :P
The amount of times I've seen job offers that say "URGENTLY HIRING!!" and then refuse me because I don't have 15 years work experience. You'd think that employers who 'urgently' need employees would be less demanding.
What if they want 25 years of Experience but bumped it down because they're desperate? XD
@@snowarmth and thats the second time they bumped it down, it was originally 50 years experince..lol
My favorites are internships that require at least 2-3 years experience. It is like they don't even understand what an internship even is.
They urgently need someone with that level of experience ... not that hard to figure out. Obviously they won't hire a noob for a senior architect role 🤦♂️
@@Dustinisanartistand 6 degrees
This is only half of it. The thing that finally got me an interview was learning that it is worth it to have a resume tailored to that specific job, and it is worth it to put lots of attention into previous experience and either professional or academic
I just helped my daughter, a scientist, redo her resume. The trick is to get past the gatekeeper to the actual interview process. Many times, the gatekeepers do not care. Its quantity not quality for them. A cover letter is useless. Do a small introductory paragraph before beginning your job experience. Its all thats needed. Tailor your resume to each job you apply to. Look at it. Getting a job is work. Put some effort in. This format has worked for me and my husband for our whole lives and has been complimented many times. It was an old Microsoft Works template from Windows 3.1 or 95, I think. Turns out it actually worked. I've used it for 40 years.
Wait seriously?
The fact that there are *_HUNDREDS_* of applications for *_EVERY_* job posting is pure dystopian nightmare-fuel.
Thousands even.
Most of those people have jobs and are looking for a different one. They aren’t all unemployed.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5toalso plenty of them are not even qualified or related but they’re just throwing their resume/apps everywhere lol
We are all just numbers in the matrix. Dystopian nightmare fuel for real.
@@meatspin. Hasnt failed me yet, then when they hire me i just learn it on the job lol. I think everyone is doing that these days.
There are also a lot of positions that are only hiring internally that are put up because they are obligated to. All outside applicants are ignored.
For real. I go to those jobs and they tell me where and how to fill out the application. And majority of it is complex. Glad I don't have to deal with that bs anymore.
Ah no. With jobs like that no one outside the work place sees that job is available for a month. If no one from the company gets the job then the company will hire from outside the company. Most if not all the full time jobs won't make it to being posted publicly. Those get filled fast. I've been at my job and people think it's crazy I got full time after working only 4 years
@MastemaJack my own company had a job opening for the next position up that I applied to. I learned internally that they already knew my coworker was going to get it but they needed the manager to come back from vacation to ok it. Literally no reason to even post the position but it was done on the internal and public system that it was a position open for applications.
@amandaslough125 yeah that does happen with management or full time positions. Happened to me too. Ha so my pet leopard gecko got out of his tank when the guy who took the position I wanted started. You could say I wasn't in a great mood. I scared the guy so much without meaning to that the store manager said if I made him feel that uncomfortable again I would be fired.
Happens in healthcare all the time
Finding a job is a job itself 😂
HR actually claimed they had no applicants when my boss asked the status of my internal promotion application. Then "found" it after she asked for mine by name. If I was an outside candidate, she never would have been aware of me.
If any company has a job opening with ZERO applicants, then there is a significant flaw in their application process. You should at least get a few bogus applicants no matter what.
Very common practice for companies. They are allowed to do lots of things that exploit and abuse people. It's legal.
No good job is filled by HR
Humans really are the smartest AND dumbest animal!
Yeah, I figured out you just have to know someone that will give you a leg up in the application process. You get to skip the resume filters😊
So just copy and paste the job description into Chat,GPT and let a robot talk to the robot 😂😂
Sounds fair. Automated systems writing applications for automated systems
That's what I do😂😂
This is the way.
Might as well. This is what job applications have gotten to. Chat GPT the whole process. All of it is a sham. It's designed to keep certain people at the bottom. Not everyone is going to know anything about this stuff.
@@TheDumontShow ChatGPT is new, but use of AI writing is not. I've been using AI for pretty much anything since English is not my first language and I noticed really early, as earlier as 2014, to be precise, that some people (and therefore systems) were bias against non-native English speakers.
I bought this last week. Haven't heard back from anyone yet but I agree that it's very easy to edit your resume using it
so is this why companies are getting crappier over the years?
I remember when all you had to do was walk in and fill out a paper, now they want you to go through all this bullshit.
That's what happens when you allow 80 million immigrants into your country in a few decades.
Funnily enough, even back in like 2015 when I applied for jobs, I got answers, yes or no, back pretty quickly. Like I could apply for 7 jobs and have an answer back for all 7 within a week. Now, MAYBE 1 job will reply while the other 6 will either have an automated reply (a no that just takes half a year to send) or they just don't respond at all.
I've known about the funnel software. There was a story, can't recall the publication as it was well over a decade ago, where the CEO's resume didn't get sent to HR because it didn't have the right keywords, it didn't think he was a good fit for his company. That company trashed the software that day.
Wouldn't THAT make for an interesting experiment, if every CEO or board member tried that out.
Lol 😂
If we trashed ATS based on this then all ATS would be trashed. Unless the CEO tailored its CV, it won’t get trough.
Mine was blocked in our ATS for an internal position that was open specifically for me during our reorganization. It got a 0% score 😂
Honestly, I respect it. Very much a sort of "I won't support anything I wouldn't use myself" energy
@@drakkiusgamingor, "something only matters once it doesn't work for me"
I understand you can’t do this with every job but when I was looking for my current job I met someone who worked at the company that told me to apply online, the next day after applying I printed my resume out that I submitted and went into where I now work, asked about the position and gave a person my resume. Ended out working out and they liked that I came in to drop one off too
I've never once got a job without lying. Also,I've never once been fired from a job. Goes to show that manipulation is ten times more valuable then the skills they actually want.
I also lied i think for just about every job and also was never fired. I can't remember dates of when i started and stopped working somewhere so i make it up.
@@Mattology1 "yes I was the CEO for Microsoft for ten years but I just left that job so I can work as an accountant for your company." 😂
That's really unfortunate for those of us who aren't very good at lying.
Proof of concept: I was fired for the very first time from my last job for being too honest. Literally. I refused to fudge crucial numbers and documents needed for actual customer safety post-processing.
@@slipspacesurvivalist9416 They fired you for not wanting to commit fraud. Nice.
And companies wonder why they can’t attract employees who are good at their jobs. The best employees are the ones who don’t waste time playing stupid games. They all get filtered out, leaving the mediocre workers who just know how to game the system, not do the actual work.
Exactly
True
You are the hero we need!
I laughed when I saw "How to steal a house" in one of your tabs
Its crazy you go into a buisness with multiple now hiring banners. The manager says go online and fill out an hr long application/questionnaire that then asks for your resume that has basically everything you just answered/filled out on it only to be told the position has been filled all while the hiring signs never leave.
Facts!
Scam
Yep. There should be felony consequences for lying like that.
@@defies4626 much of it is apparently *because* of dept of labor laws. I found out as a manager yrs back that businesses that have so many employees are required to accept so many applications & interview ppl per quarter/ yr to refresh their applications on file. Companies do it in order to prove they're compilant in case of a random audit from DOL. The place I was working put up a hiring sign periodically so I finally asked why & that's what I was told. Total waste of time really. Also many of the online job postings never come down because the bigger ones pay for a monthly/ yrly subscription which refreshes their postings automatically. So while it looks like "everyone is hiring", only a fraction of them might be at any given time.
Yeah. WTF is that BS
Those same companies won't ever figure out why they can't find anyone either. The irony.
They're not trying to find anyone. They're trying to import H1B's who will work for half the pay. The goal is to destroy America.
I help homeless and at-risk of becoming homeless, as well as Justice involved applicants with getting jobs. These companies say no to them all the time. Because of the gap or because they have been incarcerated. I thought you needed workers gaps and incarceration can be worked out. Also ageism. Lastly you got people that have education, but then they say, "You don't have enough experience ". How are they supposed to get the experience if no one will hire them. They are not college students so internships are a no and there aren't enough paid internships and apprenticeships.
They're so unrealistic it's ridiculous.Heaven forbid they have to train someone@@Cantetinza17
H1B. They don't go through the same scans.
oh they will find people. in china and india.
the fact that getting a job is now some rare and exciting accomplishment is a problem
Design, build, operate… for a moment I thought I was watching Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys
"Whats your salary."
"Whats your expectation"
"SALARY PLEASE"
"WHaT aRE YOuR exPECtatIONs!?!?"
I'm tired of these games companies play.
I always say $100-200/hr. Then when they chuckle I say “well you asked….”
Everyday I feel like we're living in a bigger dystopia.
The suns still shining, their games have just become not worth it
subtract 'feel like'
FYI. Most companies don’t do this. It’s entirely dependant on the structure of each company. Over half of them still use 2008 servers
“Think critically.” A skill half the internet doesn’t have. 💀
I work in HR at a consultancy company (Recruitment Officer), we manually handle resumes (100s-1000s) per week because automated systems are utter crap that lead you to missing out on valuable talent. It's time consuming, but that's what we're paid to do.
Also, (for the love of God) triple check for spelling errors.
Now shout it out for every other HR division out there, so they can all get the message.
"Also, (for the love of God) triple check for spelling errors.
" is so funny, since in the real world, more or less all people above a basic position spell like donkeys. In my career, I am still, everyday, surprised how someone became a CEO, or any other officer, when they can't properly speak or write.
@@Luggruff nepotism
You might be the only HR person I've ever seen who takes their job seriously.
spelling errors matter that much when English native speakers colleagues don't know the diff between "your" and "you're"?
I figured this out back in 2010. I started copying the qualifications from the job description and pasting them to my resume under skills and I started getting call backs on almost every job I applied to.
Because that's a recruiter seeing your resume matches the job description. I've been a recruiter for over 20 years and what he's describing is not how it works.
@@jasonfritz838How does it work?
@jasonfritz838 so you really think bigger companies don't have automated screening software to weed out applicants before applications reach the recruiter? If you work in a smaller business or temp agency then sure, a human is most likely reviewing your stuff. I HIGHLY doubt that's the case with bigger companies and corporations though.
@@djhero0071 I've worked for Fortune 50 companies, so yes, that's the case. I used to personally go through as many as 400 applications per day, one by one. The only thing that is automatically screened out is minimum qualifications, like a bachelors degree. But otherwise no, a computer isn't screening you out because of key words.
But what would I know...I've only been doing this for over 20 years.
@@djhero0071especially now with most "office jobs" that you can easily work from home, it's easier to use software to only see the resumes that they need to see and delete all the others
I was today years old when I found out that "Penetration Testing" is an exercise for cyber security jobs rather than just a pick up line I use.
Dang dude didn't know my resume was missing "Penetration Testing" as a key word.
Also, have ChatGPT write your cover letters. If AI is going to grade you, then AI should write the paper.
Fr lmao
That part!!
however theres also tools to check if a text is ai genreated or not
Can I get an amen
@@itram99exactly
Stuff like this just means companies hire people who are good at applying to jobs, not people who are actually good at their jobs. I'm in college and haven't gotten a single interview this year. I was on an extremely difficult semester project that would have fallen apart without my expertise at reading documentation and debugging code. It seemed like the people who did less work on the project I was working on were the ones getting actual interviews.
I strongly urge you to go to your career center. They can assist with jobs in research as well as other industries.
@@Juliaavgolaus oh please the vile hive of scum and villany trading post is what they should rename that thing
I don't know the numbers but you will have lying and cheating classmates. I had some in an art class, who just bought a template to use for a major project that the school was gonna use. Same person in that group also worked at a related job (probably got fastracked to getting hired by lying). Being a liar gets you places. Just be aware of what you're doing I guess, lest you become like these other worthless lying hacks who lie because they have no skills, instead of lying because the system requires it.
"Oh so you're good at lying? Hired! We need clever snakes who can echo our words here. The real job is left to outsource or the old employees. Come here be our mascot!"
@@Yotrymp, I don't know who hurt you, but it's not a bad thing to have skills for finding jobs.Tuning a resume to the job you're looking for isn't lying.
Wow, making your application fit the job criteria. Ground breaking.
I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a call back from online applications, and this was for like entry level jobs.
In person is the way to go
It’s interesting to know that companies are missing out on potentially amazing employees simply be they didn’t put some words in their resume. You’d think companies could come up with a better system.
Most companies don't want amazing employees, they want employees just good enough to get the job done and work a lot of hours a week.
@rreiro1234they don’t want free thinkers, they want workers
Despite the former being the one that can actually help our world
Im bad at English sometimes@@LutherTaylor
No, it's just that they get swamped with thousands of applications due to the web portals here. It used to be less. You can't have people look over all of them anymore.
@@tachobrennerBad take. Their filters are sht tier
The tab on how to steal a house was a good touch.
Honorable mention: "How to get paid doing nothing" :-)
None of this matters. Its not what you know its who you know. 90% of all the jobs I got were through knowing someone or mutual associations who put in a good word for me. Which sucks because had I known this earlier on it would have saved me time and money from going to college. Networking is the biggest way to succeed. Doesn't matter what you actually know because you can always learn.
We've come full circle, use AI to write a CV and apply for a job that scans your CV using AI.
I’ve been unemployed for 2.5 years and have applied for around 4,000 jobs in that time. I no longer get any responses so I will try this, many thanks!
Me too :( ill try this.. specially those company using WORKDAY
So you've sent 5 a day and no jerb? You sure it's not just you?
Good luck to you!! Only takes ☝️ one!
Those are rookie numbers my friend, I have applied to 10,000 plus jobs and haven’t found one in 8 to 9 months :(
Did it work?
Just said this to my professor last week. applicants send so much time on resumes only for companies to not GAF.
Even before they were using computers, they were scanning for words that matched the job description. That’s always been the game. When you have hundreds or thousands of resumes, you have to narrow them down somehow. Idk how people make it to adulthood without learning this basic fact. Your parents and teachers failed you.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5toif only we all could be as galaxy brain as Firstname Lastname
I send this video to anyone I know that is looking for work. I'm in tech where things are an absolute shit show, so this stuff is super valuable. Thanks for making me aware this tool exists!
The last office job i had was 20 years ago. The manager actually printed out all of the resumes. It was a stack about 4 inches tall. She peeled off the top half and threw them in the trash then had an intern help her comb thru the rest.
Mind you, these are the same employers who complain about the people they hire being terrible, when their hiring process is designed to make it so the least amount of work possible is done on their part.
Employees need training, which companies nowadays are often unwilling to do. Unless you find a good place, most places will invest as little as possible into their employees
Literally, you get what you give. Who knew 🙄
@cc_snipergirl 100% accurate... often most are unwilling to even train you on THEIR SPECIFIC company procedures. It's typically "Hey... do this thing you've never done... best luck!"
Dont be so lazy in sure you get one on attempt 250
After working for several large corporations, including WalMart, Home Depot, and Google, I've gotten to know quite a few HR specialists. By law, new job openings must be listed outside the hiring organization, but in fact, those jobs have already been filled from within the corporation.
If they can’t be bothered to even glance at each application until after the magical ATS filter throws away potential candidates why in the world would they take the time to read a cover letter?
Oh they list them…after they’ve hired the internal employee, then just tell everyone “sorry the positions already been filled” 🙄
@@Farrell0208 thats the reason why people say for long time now after covid that when you see a "we're hiring" sign on the building its a total bullshit lie because they really are not hiring, they are just doing it cuz its the law they have to follow since the job/position is already filled internally.
Such a stupid law. It only seeks to waste everyones time.
This is not true for everything
Copy paste the job description into your resume, make it 0.25 font and color it white so its invisible, and put it at the bottom of the page.
This is sick. If I wasn’t employed for the last 6 years I would totally use this
This is true. Some dude on TikTok made a bullshit resume as a Pokémon trainer and used key words of a software engineer. It made it through the system.
😂
Gotta catch em all bugs ~ Pokemon trainer and part-time software engineer.
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It’s a real wreck out there. I experienced this during the recession. My mother treated me like I wasn’t even applying for jobs. Once I landed a job, I also couldn’t get a friend a job there - and he was a VP I used to work for. In all likelihood, just like how I got mine and I was a contractor before I became permanent, they probably posted it, but had someone lined up for it. Like everyone, I hate how they just waste everyone’s time. I was once told I didn’t get a job 2 years after I applied. So, if you’re looking for sanity out there, you’ll lose your own, trying to find it.
It's almost like employers and employees have differing priorities. Amazing.
The best loophole is - copy and paste the whole job description in your CV and turn that into white text colour and the smallest font size. The ATS will still read it giving a 100% match but the human won’t be able to find out what you have done.
And then employers complain that they can't find good workers for the actuall job.
We hire people and then they end up washing out. Especially younger people. There’s a common trend of them not being able to handle a normal workload or manage their own time.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to When the first thing you are asked after calling that you had an accident is "But you're still comming to work, right?" there is no excuse. It's completely lost with these people "managing" the place.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Also: If you took time to actually teach your new workers before putting the whole load on them, while they have yet to figure out how everything works, and not take a look at them actually, it's still your fault for not finding or pushing away the good ones.
I was left alone on my very first day and noone checked on me, then complained when I made mistakes because it was literally my first day and I didn't know shit, especially not the article numbers which where essential for my job. 😂
The open tab "how to steal a house" got me!! 😂
LOL's
Yea he’s often got a funny Easter egg in his videos, great channel
Also "how to get paid doing nothing"
It's real, it's called "tax liens."
Also how to legally "steal" a car aka title loans.
Imagine you said "construct" instead of build and that's the sole reason your application wasn't seen
Ya'll can moan about this all you want, but it won't change anything. You have just been given an insight (a fairly obvious one, imo) into how HR processes loads of resumes. Instead of complaining about it, take what you should have learned in school (tailor your resume to the job you are applying for) and what you may have just learned here (be aware of key action words) and up your job application game.
The job description is absolutely key for many companies, as HR doesn't know what your specialized experience is. They absolutely rely on that job description information to filter out those that don't appear to be a fit. This is the world we live in, and you need to adapt.
Job hunting is like online dating.
Always treat ur Job like ur Current girl if u dont have 1 keep looking & good luck
@@lilbench5834 so do the bare minimum to not get dumped and occasionally put in a lot of effort at opportune times?
@@X8cY3rP9sF2aZ6qBthat’s the only logical way to work a job. Going above and beyond just turns you into the guy who does all the work for no extra pay.
The only way to win is to not play at all.
I have a friend who works in upper management. She claims the workers they're getting are absolute trash compared to when a human scanned the resumes. She claims the workers they're getting just know how to get their resume through, but they can't actually perform the job.
She claims the turnover is higher than ever. Also, walk in applications are a thing of the past. Often, an employer could eyeball and even possibly get to know you enough to set up an interview. Not these days.
When they say no one wants to work, they're lying. Employers are dismissing half of the applicants. Other times, employers lie about their competitive pay rate.
that site you showed is a life saver. thanks for sharing
One thing you can do is type all the keywords at the bottom in white ink so they don't appear but still get tracked
This is ridiculous. And people complain about people not wanting to work anymore.
Don't forget about ghost announcements to convince shareholders the company is growing
Or the jobs they always leave posted on their website even though they aren't actually hiring for them.
Ghost Announcements? What do?
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 people short stocks if they see a decrease in the number of job ads
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 Basically fake job openings -- they will have the opening on their career website but are not actively filling those positions..
The most amazing part about this video is that you apparently discovered this today...
ATS was a thing when I was in university 10 years ago, and it was definitely around before then too. Every basic resume building class/tutorial/workshop I've ever been to mentions how to get past ATS.
I mean, if it helps people then I'm glad the video's here, but it's genuinely sad if there are people who are actively looking for a job who don't know this.
This is one reason why I haven't jumped companies but worked to progress within the one company. Two and a half years in and the relationships I have built have resulted in my first promotion, with a plan in place to build my own team and manage it in two years.
I might be leaving some money on the table but I'm avoiding a lot of uncertainty and BS. Plus, the development and training I will get is fully transferrable if I choose to move on for greener pastures at a later date.
I worked in HR and I bypassed the system our company had in place to actually go through them myself. It was more time-consuming but I found excellent and qualified people. So not every HR is run by robots 😂 Also, call. Follow-up if you can! That would alert me to look in the system for their name. Best of luck to you!
This is a good idea when you actually know the company that is hiring.
In my country it is too common to have job adds with "important energy field company" or "international retail store" but no true way of identifiying them, because they don't want to alert their employees that they'll be fired 😔
@@AngelesBustamanteM Yeah, I understand. That is unfortunately the case with many jobs. I’ve had that experience myself with applying before and it feels a bit like communicating with a wall. In those situations I think the tips in this video are best, keywords from the description, etc.
I miss the old days when getting a job was you taking the shoelace express to the actual place you wanted to work at, and speaking to the manager directly.
The internet is a great thing, but it also made life stupid complicated
The Internet sucks
There's nothing stopping you from doing that still. Friend of mine went to corporate offices downtown and dropped off their resume at the reception while making a good impression. They got several callbacks, impressed with the initiative.
There's also lots and lots of career fairs and events where you can speak to hiring managers directly. I've had success going to those networking events.
The internet has made *people* stupid.
I had to pay a professional $120 just to by pass the ATS which was why I was down in my luck getting my job application to go through.
It’s not even the words, it’s the formatting that can and will get you disqualified.