We Are Screwed All The Way Around
Where do I begin? If you are in the Generation Y (or the upcoming Generation Z), you are pretty much screwed.......
- Cost of living is through the roof
- The divide between the HAVES and HAVE NOTS will get worse
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- We are going to soon be taxed out of the rear to pay $21 trillion in debt
- We are paying into social security but might not EVER see it back
- The status of the US across the world is horrible
- The Global NWO of big business, big government, and big media are destroying everybody else while they grow their own personal power and influence
- This is the worse job market since the Great Depression
Speaking of the job market, let me go into more in-depth information on that.
The Worse Job Market Of Our Time
It just seems like a very real possibility, for someone to go on 200 job interviews and get NO offers. When you really boil it down, the Employers in question have all of the power and they can punk slap you all around during the interview process all they want....with literally stupid questions, stupid procedures and IF you happen to get in, be prepared to deal with STUPID crap on a daily basis.
The reality is that we are dealing with a very difficult time in terms of the job market.
- Technology is taking away jobs.
- Globalization/cheap labor is taking away jobs.
- More people have a bachelor's degree today than ever before, creating more demand for jobs, which causes Employers to have to use robots and
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Job Market Inefficiencies
I posted a lot of this in another section, but here's more information:
#1.) Alot Of Them Hire On Personal Preference Of Who They Would Drink A Beer With, NOT Who Can Do The Damn Job
It doesn't appear as though your professional competency to do well and perform well in the position even matters, it seems like other CRAP that has nothing to do with professional competency is what is driving their "hiring decision" such as the Hiring Manager's own personal preferences of who they want to work with and don't want to work with.
- So if the Hiring Manager doesn't like introverted people, and you're introverted, he won't pick you.
- If he doesn't like extroverted people, and you're extroverted, he won't pick you.
- If he doesn't like black people that much, and you're black, he won't pick you.
- If he doesn't like white people that much, and you're white, he won't pick you.
- If he doesn't like fat people that much, and you're fat, he won't pick you.
- If he doesn't like people over 40, and you're 45, he won't pick you.
- If he doesn't like butt-kissers and you seem like you kiss butt, he won't pick you.
- If he likes butt-kissers and you seem like you don't kiss butt, he won't pick you.
- If he likes people he can bully and boss over, and you seem like the type he can't bully and boss around, he won't pick you.
It's this concept of the Hiring Manager wanting to sit down and have a "beer" with you. But the kicker is that who he wants to have a beer with comes down to his sole personal preference, and has nothing to do with professional competency. So if he only wants to drink beer with extroverts and you're not that, he won't pick you.
Like I said, I haven't been on many interviews but I'm noticing this trend and I honestly DO NOT like it! It's a waste of someone's time! I'm a business man, a professional, and I'm expecting that just like my clients over the previous 10 years picked me based on having the best "product" in terms of value/quality, I was expecting Hiring Managers to do the same thing!
#2.) They Post Public Jobs, But Don't Hire Anybody From The Pile Of People Driving 3 - 4 Hours Out To See Them
On top of this situation, you also have the inefficiency of the JOB BOARDS. What do I mean?
- A job is posted on a job board
- 200 people respond to it
- Some robot created by some kid in his mother's basement screens the applicants based on keywords to filter the list from 200 to let's say 65
- Then some
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- Then she calls you, asks a bunch of CANNED HR Elementary questions, then when you ask her technical information on the position to get even a feel for what the HELL it is....she says you have to drive out 3 or 4 hours to speak with the "Manager" and he will answer all of your questions.
- You drive 3 or 4 hours to speak with the "Manager", and you discover that this idiot has about 5 other people waiting in line to speak with him and over the course of this week alone, he's probably interviewed about 20 people. You sit down, thinking you are about to have a business conversation about needs/solutions, markets, and quotas, but instead this idiot goes into more CANNED HR Elementary questions and he can't answer a damn thing about the technical aspects of the job either.....you feel like you are in La La Land!
We Are Screwed
Besides opening a business (which I could create 5 more threads on the issues relating to that), does anybody have any ideas of how to navigate this horrible market my Generation (Millennials) were born into
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