Feels like potential employers simply ignore my portfolio, and it doesn’t matter how skilled and/or knowledgeable I am. None of them even try testing my skills, even when I am obviously more than qualified for a relevant job vacancy, or on the occasion when I do get an in-person interview, which is not helped by my social impediments.
I have always been significantly better than my immediate peers in the field where I am looking for a job currently, but while some of them did manage to get jobs, I am left with no commercial experience, and potential employers are obviously looking primarily for people who already have experience.
I don’t seem to be able to hold a job in any other field, currently, at least not in the long term.
I love living under crapitalism and not being neurotypical enough to have a living. /s
(P.S. I do apologise to people whose replies I have not attended yet, regarding idealism and whether or not Marxism is anti-idealist or not. I still intend to.)
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A significant proportion of job vacancies are vaporware vacancies and they’re doing shit like harvesting personal details and creating the impression that their company is in a period of growth or economic strength when they actually aren’t.
It’s super gross and predatory but capitalism is a sick game.
Try not to take it too hard, is what I’m saying.
You might want to try coaching specifically with regards to interview skills if you feel like that’s what is letting you down.
You might also consider aiming for companies in your field of preference but applying for a generalist role (e.g. secretarial, data entry, customer service) to get your foot in the door with which to parlay that into a job that’s closer to your desired role.
Try not to take it too hard, is what I’m saying
A significant issue with this is that other people’s well-being is dependent on me having a job. It’s not just about me.
You might want to try coaching specifically with regards to interview skills if you feel like that’s what is letting you down
I can’t spare any money if that isn’t free, and the issue is not just the fact that I lack interview skills, I am generally socially impeded, especially in in-person situations, and I do not think I will ever be able to apply the skills, unless and until my status will be backed by history of employment.
You might also consider aiming for companies in your field of preference but applying for a generalist role
I am already not looking for anything specific, apart from being the sort of stuff that I can do, and have dedicated more than a year now to specifically broadening my area of expertise and re-building my portfolio.
Kind of getting hopeless in this regard, especially with the bad things that happened to me recently, and which are very likely going to happen to me very soon.
I’m in the same boat right now. I’m starting a new job tomorrow but it’s very much temporary unfortunately. It’s never been this hard to find a job as this is easily the longest I’ve been on a job search. I don’t know why it’s different now, but shit sucks.
was like this for years and am always at risk of returning no matter how good of an employee I am. Anyway, I’d run your resume by a chatbot, first tier of hell is automated.Hmm. Will try. Although, I doubt that that option is available in the relevant language.
Certain professions are looking for certain key words, or ATS, in this first level of automated hell. There’s a site called jobscan you can see what magic words certain jobs want in a resume, if they don’t see the magic words it goes into the void (tbf it may anyway, HR gets the wall, but worth a shot).
jobscan
Seems to be specifically for English, which is not a language any sort of employer is going to use here.
Same. I can’t even get a job to fucking flip burgers. All they see is the employment gap (because I apply everywhere and no one even wants to give me and interview) and then they reject me.
I am scum of the highest order, I am literally too unworthy to even scrub floors.
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