Recruiter explains why it’s so hard to get a job right now

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The recruiter herself has also had recent job struggles. She was laid off 3 times last year, and it took her 7 months to find a job

features stories of someone struggling to get a job, feeling hopeless because they’ve applied many times and sent out scores of résumé, only to get very few interviews.

But her bigger point is that companies appear to be trimming their recruitment teams, and she explained that: Of those thousands of people that apply, maybe more than half of them apply to roles they’re not qualified for.”While in the past, firms might be willing to take the time and money to train new hires, that time is long over. But more importantly, the fewer recruiters there are, the longer it takes them to go through all the résumé.In all her work as a recruiter, humans have looked through all the résumés themselves.

 

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