Job Hunting Madness: Why is it so hard to find a Job? — Transcript

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1. 0:00hold on one second I have an email ah
2. 0:04it's from a company that I applied
3. 0:06to and it's a rejection
4. 0:10email I mean at least they
5. 0:13responded am I
6. 0:17right so here is the situation that I'm
7. 0:19sure all of us are currently familiar
8. 0:21with it is impossible to find a job
9. 0:25right now I've started looking for a job
10. 0:27since April of 2024 it is August 2024
11. 0:32and I'm losing my goddamn mind I started
12. 0:35out applying to places that seemed like
13. 0:37I was a good match for except that was
14. 0:39quite difficult considering that every
15. 0:41place requires you to have a minimum 10
16. 0:43years of experience some places don't
17. 0:46even allow you to have internship
18. 0:47experience
19. 0:50Amazon and after months of little to no
20. 0:52responses rejection emails Galore and
21. 0:55the just the worst job offers I've ever
22. 0:58seen in my entire life I just apply
23. 1:01anywhere like not even if I'm qualifi I
24. 1:04just good communication skills but it's
25. 1:06a plumbing job I'm applying do I know
26. 1:09anything about
27. 1:10Plumbing no but I I'm a good
28. 1:12communicator so yeah things are things
29. 1:15are bad right now and after scrolling
30. 1:18through Reddit in Instagram in my
31. 1:19depressive State wondering why my life
32. 1:21is like this I realized that I'm
33. 1:23actually not alone in this boat it seems
34. 1:25like everybody just about anywhere is
35. 1:27struggling to find a job especially in
36. 1:30America specifically talking about
37. 1:31America cuz I'm American and I'm
38. 1:35wondering like many of you are probably
39. 1:37why is that why is it so incredibly
40. 1:41difficultly exponentially hard to find
41. 1:44anything nowadays is it because we as a
42. 1:46collective are just not good enough to
43. 1:48be potential employees are we doing
44. 1:50something wrong our our degrees not
45. 1:53enough is it the state of the economy or
46. 1:56is it something deeper I don't know I'm
47. 1:59just a girl but this girl wants to dive
48. 2:01a little bit deeper into figuring out
49. 2:03why all of this Mayhem is happening and
50. 2:06maybe even find out what I can do to
51. 2:08spare myself from it and finally get a
52. 2:11job because my bank account is screaming
53. 2:14right now and if you want to find the
54. 2:16truth too keep on watching as I spend
55. 2:18all day on Google getting to the bottom
56. 2:21of this let's
57. 2:22[Music]
58. 2:26go so firstly I want to talk about the
59. 2:30state of things at the moment because as
60. 2:32I already said it's not looking so good
61. 2:34I've applied to over a hundred jobs
62. 2:37easily I don't know the exact number and
63. 2:38I'm too lazy to figure it out and I'm
64. 2:40going to cry if I do so I'm just going
65. 2:42to say it's over 100 which not is not
66. 2:44even a crazy amount because I've seen
67. 2:47online that some people have been
68. 2:48applying to over 600 jobs and getting
69. 2:51the same exact response rate as I'm
70. 2:53getting so it's it's scary out there in
71. 2:56amidst all of these jobs in the span of
72. 2:59four months I've only gotten four
73. 3:02responsib all of these jobs I had to do
74. 3:04interviews for and they also had these
75. 3:07exams that I had to take one of these
76. 3:09exams was a personality test and for one
77. 3:11of these training programs I failed at
78. 3:13the personality
79. 3:17test I don't know what that means and I
80. 3:20honestly don't want to know what I don't
81. 3:22know I don't want and I interviewed for
82. 3:23that one job I did some exams I did a
83. 3:25technical interview which didn't even
84. 3:27include a real human it was I had to
85. 3:29record myself doing it uh they gave me a
86. 3:31terrible offer and required me to move
87. 3:34across the country so yeah things are
88. 3:37pretty atrocious right now but why is
89. 3:40that the case that's what we're here to
90. 3:41figure out and well let's start from the
91. 3:44bare facts firstly I'm sure we're all
92. 3:46aware of the fact that there are just
93. 3:48many software developers out there and
94. 3:50increasing over time I can't blame
95. 3:52people we're all sheep in the end we
96. 3:54want to jump on the hype train as soon
97. 3:55as we see that it's going in a really
98. 3:57good direction but here's the thing some
99. 3:59point we turned into one of those Indian
100. 4:01train situations and it's just not it's
101. 4:03just not looking good that makes sense
102. 4:04why people think that the reason that
103. 4:06the market is so bad right now is
104. 4:08because it's oversaturated with all of
105. 4:10these developers trying to get in good
106. 4:12on the salary and the benefits and
107. 4:14whatever which is definitely happening I
108. 4:16mean we all have LinkedIn probably we
109. 4:17see the number of people applying for
110. 4:19positions it's insane but that turns out
111. 4:21is not actually the deeper reason behind
112. 4:24this Mayhem it is more so because of the
113. 4:26fact that there are so many people
114. 4:28companies are trying trying very hard to
115. 4:30look for the perfect software developer
116. 4:33now I can't blame them we all want the
117. 4:35best of the best we want someone who
118. 4:37actually can program versus the person
119. 4:39who just went to a good name school and
120. 4:41got a degree which by the way is why
121. 4:43your degree in computer science is
122. 4:45completely useless nowadays that's right
123. 4:47while you spend thousands of dollars
124. 4:49learning what a link lists Owen time is
125. 4:51this guy over here was making web
126. 4:53applications and learning 10 times more
127. 4:55practical skills than you ever would in
128. 4:57a college classroom
129. 5:00doesn't that feel great but here's the
130. 5:02thing is that companies are not actually
131. 5:03even looking for this guy they're
132. 5:05looking for someone even better than
133. 5:07this guy so much to the point that there
134. 5:09is a word referred to the person they're
135. 5:11looking for the Unicorn they're looking
136. 5:14for someone that's so good at their job
137. 5:16that they don't even exist in this world
138. 5:18and so because companies are looking for
139. 5:20not a good employee but a best employee
140. 5:23they're actually just swiping away all
141. 5:25of these potential workers in search of
142. 5:27something that's not even really there
143. 5:30there's this saying that they use where
144. 5:31it's like oh there's always going to be
145. 5:32a better developer and so all of these
146. 5:34good developers are getting shoved to
147. 5:35the sidelines in search of this best
148. 5:37developer the other problem is that
149. 5:39companies are also trying not to take
150. 5:41any chances on making mistakes and who
151. 5:43they're hiring to the point where
152. 5:44they're making the job process into a
153. 5:47sorting system they have automated
154. 5:49coding tests technical interview hell
155. 5:52many rounds of interviews weeks of
156. 5:54waiting for responses and massing
157. 5:56resumes not really filling the jobs and
158. 5:59only accepting senior developers which
159. 6:01I'm sure we're all familiar with they're
160. 6:03taking more and more humans out of the
161. 6:05hiring process and so I mean can you
162. 6:07imagine all those thousands of
163. 6:09application of human going through them
164. 6:11no the many rounds of interviews have
165. 6:12actually been creating some discourse
166. 6:14among not just companies but also
167. 6:17potential employees turns out that
168. 6:18according to google four interviews
169. 6:21maximum are enough to have a 86%
170. 6:25confidence in hiring an employee and yet
171. 6:27most of these companies have about 10
172. 6:30rounds of
173. 6:32interviews what and in doing so most of
174. 6:35these companies are actually making the
175. 6:37employees themselves drop out of the
176. 6:39process due to disinterest in doing 10
177. 6:42rounds of interviews like a normal human
178. 6:45would feel but the mend massing rumes
179. 6:47thing is that they're actually just
180. 6:48collecting all of these applications
181. 6:51like you see on LinkedIn thousands of
182. 6:52applications they're just collecting
183. 6:54them but not really doing anything with
184. 6:56them yeah I read about that they're
185. 6:58they're just keeping storage of all
186. 7:00these potential applicants but not
187. 7:02really hiring anyone and don't even get
188. 7:05me started on trying to find an entry
189. 7:07level job right now I'm sure we all know
190. 7:09that most companies are only hiring
191. 7:11senior developers makes sense you want
192. 7:14people with more experience you want
193. 7:15people who know what they're doing I can
194. 7:17spend all day all year coding up
195. 7:20projects but it's not going to teach me
196. 7:21any corporate skills that they want me
197. 7:23to have although according to statistics
198. 7:25most jobs have actually lowered their
199. 7:28minimum years of experience requirement
200. 7:30from like 5 years down to 2 years but
201. 7:34this 2 years experienced gal over here
202. 7:36still can't find a job so thank you but
203. 7:39no thank you in in fact not only is all
204. 7:42of this threatening you in finding a job
205. 7:44but also in keeping the job as I said
206. 7:46earlier layoffs are happening I'm sure
207. 7:48we've all heard of these big tech
208. 7:50companies laying off thousands and
209. 7:52thousands of employees some of the
210. 7:54reasons are due to the economic state of
211. 7:56our country it just makes sense as if
212. 7:58the country is in bad state jobs are in
213. 8:01a bad State some of these layoffs are
214. 8:02happening because they overhire during
215. 8:04the pandemic turns out actually a lot of
216. 8:06these jobs layoffs happened in the HR
217. 8:08department versus the software
218. 8:09developing department but that doesn't
219. 8:11mean that many software developers did
220. 8:13not lose their jobs and apparently some
221. 8:15of them might be doing it because again
222. 8:17we're all sheep monkey see monkey do
223. 8:20that big company just laid off a bunch
224. 8:21of employees and their stocks went up
225. 8:23I'mma do the same thing all of
226. 8:25that being said does that mean that
227. 8:27companies are the ones that fall for
228. 8:29making everything crap well let's talk
229. 8:33about us as a collective Workforce first
230. 8:36things first let's talk about our
231. 8:37favorite job hunting app LinkedIn and
232. 8:40after doing so much research for this
233. 8:41video I realized that I've been using
234. 8:43LinkedIn wrong this entire time I've
235. 8:46been spamming my resume left right and
236. 8:48Center for weeks completely ignoring the
237. 8:50recruiters in my inbox thinking that
238. 8:51they were spam and I have been doing the
239. 8:54bare minimum to optimize my profile
240. 8:56which is all the things that you should
241. 8:57be doing with LinkedIn that way you
242. 8:59don't have to go and find companies but
243. 9:01the companies will come to you at least
244. 9:04the recruiters will recruiters are
245. 9:06actually the driving force behind all of
246. 9:08linkedin's power there's so much
247. 9:10problems with the job listings on
248. 9:11LinkedIn like ghost jobs that appear out
249. 9:14of nowhere I
250. 9:15guess I'm real but not real plus once
251. 9:19again companies are just amassing your
252. 9:21applications without actually sending it
253. 9:23anywhere so what you should be doing
254. 9:24instead is trying to communicate with
255. 9:26these recruiters not like me I've been
256. 9:28letting them rot my
257. 9:30inbox now you might be wondering about
258. 9:33other job hunting applications cuz
259. 9:35there's a lot there's Indie there's zip
260. 9:37recruiter I don't know any other job
261. 9:39applications off the top of my head but
262. 9:41there's a lot and there's only one word
263. 9:43for that capitalism everybody wants to
264. 9:46get in on the hype train and job
265. 9:48recruiting apps are just one of those
266. 9:50things so whatever you can hate on
267. 9:51LinkedIn all of you want but it's here
268. 9:53to stay and it's going to be here for a
269. 9:55while until one of these other job
270. 9:57hunting applications just wipes it off
271. 9:59the face of the Earth or AI takes over I
272. 10:01don't know what comes first but besides
273. 10:03LinkedIn there are other things at play
274. 10:05firstly as I said before a computer
275. 10:07science degree means nothing nowadays I
276. 10:10said it it means absolutely nothing you
277. 10:13spend more time learning about
278. 10:15theoretical computer science which is
279. 10:17important I'm not saying it's not
280. 10:19important don't fight me in the comments
281. 10:20I'm just saying it's not going to teach
282. 10:23me how to build a
283. 10:24database see in spend of spending all
284. 10:27that time in college doing God knows
285. 10:29what what you should be focusing on
286. 10:30making sure that you know how to develop
287. 10:32efficient and sophisticated code that is
288. 10:35not going to destroy an entire database
289. 10:36and one single get push okay so with all
290. 10:38that's being said does that mean it's
291. 10:40our fault that we can't get a job well
292. 10:42hold up hold up pause I haven't even
293. 10:45talked about our favorite subject of the
294. 10:47day artificial intelligence baby let's
295. 10:50get the obvious out of the way AI is
296. 10:53taking over jobs the same way that
297. 10:55Automation in the past took over human
298. 10:58jobs it's completely reasonable this is
299. 11:00just how life is companies want to cut
300. 11:03costs at all costs and life just keeps
301. 11:06evolving in new ways to make things
302. 11:08perform faster and faster all in all
303. 11:10it's not bad it makes us as a society
304. 11:13become more efficient and lets us not
305. 11:16have to do the menial tiny tasks we can
306. 11:18all put that to AI statistically
307. 11:21speaking it is more it is predictable
308. 11:23that in the future higher level jobs
309. 11:25like Engineers
310. 11:27doctors other things are going to be
311. 11:29more in high demand versus just average
312. 11:32level jobs I don't know what way to
313. 11:34describe those types of jobs is I feel
314. 11:36like average is not the right word but
315. 11:37you know what you know what I mean those
316. 11:39types of jobs and so in a way it
317. 11:40actually makes sense why the minimum
318. 11:42requirement for job experience is as
319. 11:44high as it is because we just expect
320. 11:46more out of people now cuz why do you
321. 11:49need to fix this little bug when an AI
322. 11:52can do it for me a lot quicker and a lot
323. 11:55cheaper than a human cam it sounds
324. 11:58terrible but it makes sense can you
325. 12:00agree with
326. 12:01that sup editing Maria here I just
327. 12:04realized I didn't talk about the
328. 12:06negative aspects of AI all I did was
329. 12:09kind of rant about how AI is going to
330. 12:11take over many jobs and made it seem
331. 12:13like I was a supporter of that that is
332. 12:15not the vibe I was going for but here we
333. 12:17are I'm going to do it now so yes AI is
334. 12:20going to take over many jobs which means
335. 12:22that unemployment is going to be a big
336. 12:23issue over the next coming years not
337. 12:26just in software development but in a
338. 12:27variety of different fields here's a
339. 12:29list that I probably am going to find on
340. 12:31the internet because I can't think of
341. 12:33jobs off the top of my head which as I
342. 12:35said it's going to just force people to
343. 12:37have to advance alongside AI to get into
344. 12:41positions that AI can't necessarily take
345. 12:44over because it's not Advanced enough to
346. 12:46do so which is what leads me to say that
347. 12:48it's not in my opinion going to kill the
348. 12:50software developer there's a lot of
349. 12:51evidence out there that points to that
350. 12:54being true mainly because you're going
351. 12:56to need someone to keep advancing the AI
352. 12:59yes it's going to take over specific
353. 13:01positions but there are some fields that
354. 13:05I don't see AI capable of taking over
355. 13:09specifically the first thing that pops
356. 13:10into my mind is how I don't think
357. 13:13healthc care is going to be taken over
358. 13:15by AI because as much as I would love a
359. 13:17robot to tell me that I have cancer and
360. 13:20just spit out facts of what I could do
361. 13:22about it I prefer it when I have a human
362. 13:25there to provide me with some empathy to
363. 13:27that situation and that's not something
364. 13:29AI can do and not something that I ever
365. 13:32wanted to do I also didn't say a
366. 13:35conclusion for all of this evidence I
367. 13:36was giving so I'm going to say it now in
368. 13:39conclusion you could say that companies
369. 13:41are the bad guys in this situation
370. 13:43because they're making the process of
371. 13:45applying for a job really hard with all
372. 13:47of these different methods but at the
373. 13:49same time it makes sense as to why
374. 13:51they're doing all of this because we
375. 13:53ourselves as a population of potential
376. 13:55employees are making their lives a
377. 13:57little harder we a lot of us are not
378. 13:59skilled enough to have this job and it's
379. 14:01just making it harder to find those who
380. 14:03are skilled it's pretty complicated I
381. 14:07know that's not the fun answer we love
382. 14:09to just point fingers at one specific
383. 14:11answer but this is life there's a lot of
384. 14:14gray area everywhere so
385. 14:19yeah and so basically to sum it all up
386. 14:22it is what it is the companies suck we
387. 14:25suck everything sucks times are changing
388. 14:28and we just have to adapt to them and
389. 14:30unfortunately everything's just going to
390. 14:33keep getting worse second law of
391. 14:35Thermodynamics I think right entropy
392. 14:38always increases and never
393. 14:40decreases yeah I know what I'm talking
394. 14:42about so now that we know all this
395. 14:44information what do we do do we cry
396. 14:47ourselves to sleep every night wondering
397. 14:48when oh when are we going to get a
398. 14:50job yes but after we are done crying we
399. 14:53wipe our tears get our butts right into
400. 14:56our chairs and start trying to fix
401. 14:58things and find these loopholes through
402. 15:00the system first things first is I'm
403. 15:02going to work on fixing my LinkedIn
404. 15:05because as I found out I've been doing
405. 15:07it wrong this entire time and really
406. 15:09there isn't much that I have to change I
407. 15:11just have to polish my profile make it
408. 15:14look nice and presentable and also just
409. 15:17uh adding in more skills and work
410. 15:19experience and making myself look nice
411. 15:21you know people just need to read 3
412. 15:23seconds of my profile or see 3 seconds
413. 15:25of my profile and be like I want her let
414. 15:28me send her a DM
415. 15:29is that what it's called in DM is that a
416. 15:31LinkedIn DMS now other than my LinkedIn
417. 15:34I have to fix my resume cuz that's also
418. 15:37very important now here is what my
419. 15:38resume kind of looks like it's colorful
420. 15:40cuz a software uh developer a senior
421. 15:43software developer told me that I should
422. 15:44add in color because I am
423. 15:47young I don't know what that means
424. 15:49nowadays I'm seeing that everyone is
425. 15:51dead inside and we all just want
426. 15:52monotone black and white and so I'm also
427. 15:55going to do monotone black and white I'm
428. 15:57not going to show you how I do that
429. 15:59because sensitive information but that's
430. 16:01the first step and the second step is I
431. 16:04saw this article as I was looking for
432. 16:06research material for this video and
433. 16:08this article talked about how this guy
434. 16:10had a really cool resume and he got a
435. 16:12super cool job offer now I'm ignoring
436. 16:14the job offer thing cuz it's making me
437. 16:15sad but his resume did indeed look
438. 16:18really nice and it was just simple
439. 16:20that's what I liked about it was so
440. 16:22simple he had his name he had his GitHub
441. 16:24no phone number no email no nothing that
442. 16:26I see on all these resumés just his
443. 16:28GitHub and then work experience side
444. 16:31projects skills and
445. 16:35education that is it beautiful it
446. 16:38brought tears to my eyes I was like what
447. 16:40have I been doing this entire time why
448. 16:42did so yeah I'm going to copy this idea
449. 16:44and make my resume look like this but
450. 16:46here's the thing see he has like this
451. 16:47really nice side project section I don't
452. 16:50have that yeah I look through my GitHub
453. 16:52I look through my side
454. 16:54projects they're not presentable so I
455. 16:57need to work on some really good side
456. 16:59projects but that's going to take a bit
457. 17:01of time and so the last thing I want to
458. 17:03recommend is some freelance work now I
459. 17:05know everyone says this find some
460. 17:06freelance work do some programming on
461. 17:07the side but where do you find this I'm
462. 17:10sure none of you know first thing
463. 17:12actually ask around maybe someone wants
464. 17:14you to do something for them maybe
465. 17:15someone's going to pay you to do
466. 17:17something for them that's always a way
467. 17:18to get started it gives you ideas if you
468. 17:21have none yourself now if you don't have
469. 17:23anyone you could ask I suggest looking
470. 17:26at some websites specifically this one
471. 17:27website called upwork.com
472. 17:29it's basically just freelance work you
473. 17:31make your own little profile and then
474. 17:33you look around for jobs you apply to
475. 17:35them if the person says yeah hey here is
476. 17:37the money I'm going to pay you do this
477. 17:38job for me and you get paid not a lot of
478. 17:41money but money is money my friend in
479. 17:44this economy I will take anything I can
480. 17:47get it's really all you can do is
481. 17:49program apply and wait we just have to
482. 17:52hope that maybe it will get better maybe
483. 17:55it will get worse nonetheless you just
484. 17:57have to keep on trying giving up a is
485. 17:58not an option here and I don't want this
486. 18:00video to scare off any new software
487. 18:02developers yes this is tough times tough
488. 18:06World we're living in but if you really
489. 18:08like to program don't let the fact that
490. 18:11it is hard to find a job right now stop
491. 18:13you it all sounds obvious when I'm
492. 18:14saying it out loud but maybe someone
493. 18:16needed to hear that so yeah subscribe if
494. 18:18you enjoyed this video uh I don't know
495. 18:20what's going to come first at this point
496. 18:22me becoming a YouTuber or me getting a
497. 18:24job cuz so far it's looking like it's
498. 18:27swinging in this direction join my
499. 18:29Discord if you want to talk with other
500. 18:30people who watch this video I guess I'm
501. 18:33going to go back on LinkedIn like I do
502. 18:35every day only this time I feel a little
503. 18:37bit better about oh my gosh why did I do
504. 18:40that this time I feel a little bit
505. 18:41better about what I'm doing that is all
506. 18:45still going to go cry though so um yeah
507. 18:48bye-bye