The job market is incredibly confusing these days and has been this way for a while. Several folks in my network found themselves without work starting late last year into the beginning of this year. They have been in the market for months and their struggles until they landed a job.
The stories are consistent - what used to work before does not any more. There is no sense applying to jobs because the AI will screen your resume out, the match-making algorithms are bizarre to say the least. They are almost designed to weed out people who have a range of skills and abilities, the ones that would be the most valuable for the employer. Mostly the set that makes it past the ATS know how to game the system and a very small subset of that actually knows how to do the job. It is no surprise that a woman with 20+ year sales career was being prompted to apply to call center rep jobs at minimum wage. All the things this story talks about.
Many are convinced that job-matching features powered by artificial intelligence on these sites don’t always work in their favor. In some instances, AI recommendation systems are using historical hiring information such as whom employers have typically messaged, liked and interviewed; their past searches; and the profiles they’ve clicked on to match or rank candidates — not just a candidate’s qualifications.
With a formula like that, it is just about impossible for non-traditional candidates to catch a break even in good times. In the current job market that becomes impossible. No surprise that these folks I know have struggled as much as they did - each one of them has a non-traditional career path.It is as much their loss as it is the employers who are missing out on them.
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