The Job Market is Horrendous And LinkedIn Makes it Worse

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been affected by massive layoffs and hiring freezes. Unfortunately as I write this, I’ve been in the same boat for the past seven months. It feels like applying to tons of jobs has become a fulltime job — except you’re not getting paid and there’s no end in sight. Everything in life suddenly comes to a grinding halt. It’s no longer focusing on the future, it eventually becomes a game of how long you can make your bank account last before you find a job or have less than $100.

Lots of people who are looking for jobs immediately update their resume and LinkedIn profile. While LinkedIn in theory is the most likely place to be for jobs, you can’t ignore that it has become a literal hellscape. At this current moment, 71.4% of jobs have not responded to me while 25% have directly rejected me. The other 3.6% were scams. Of these jobs I’ve applied to, I have gotten zero interviews. So what exactly is driving this?

Application Volume

With a draft of your constantly finalized resume ready to go for each month that you apply to a job, ideally it’s just as easy as filling out an application, hitting send, then waiting to hear back. Except that’s what everyone is doing in this awful job market. The amount of applications each job posting receives is essentially off…