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Job Essentials: Searching for real Jobs!

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Find real Jobs isn’t easy

How you find a real Job?  It can be very frustrating that all these jobs available but are they real?  As of today, I am thinking some of those jobs aren’t real.  I’ve seen jobs come by and I applied for them and then they come back up in the next month or a few weeks.   I thought it would be a good idea to talk about this even more.   I know I’ve talked about Job Hunting 101: Mastering the Art of Applying for Positions.  However, I thought we should deep dive into what most people are a calling Ghost jobs.  It seems that these ghost jobs or companies are trying to suggest that they are looking for work but are just trying to farm applicants.   Some of these companies are just trying to fool their workers that they are looking for people to help with their work.  I have thought more and more that Jobs in 2024 will be harder to find and It seems that will continue through this recession that we are most likely going to have.

Finding Real Jobs

Are there real jobs in the job Market?  Most of the people are looking for jobs right now than ever before in the past.   I’m seeing more people being laid off, and that can be a real problem in looking for a real job online.  Here are some of my tips to know if the job is real or not, and you can possibly save yourself some time and effort:

  • Use Indeed’s company reviews – If the company in question is really below 3 or 2.5 you can probably guess they aren’t going to be   Here is some points to make though.  If you see people making comments that the work life balance isn’t good that is probably an employer or is trying to fool their employees and keep them there.
  • Vague job postings – This seems to be another tactic that is being talked about by everyone around that companies are just posting jobs to crowd source when they do begin to hire.  You might just get a bite a few months down the line if you applied to jobs like that.
  • Listings are closed – Here’s another tactic for employers they will intentionally keep the listing active just in case the job applicant quits while being trained or something like that.  They also may be overwork and just forgets to remove the listing.   Either way this one can be quite frustrating.

Job hunting fatigue is real thing and most people don’t understand it.   The truth of the matter is that you can find a job even right now if you really go a different route.   Connect with recruiters on LinkedIn and create content to highlight what you’re good at is one way to find those jobs that companies are wanting to fill.   Create Google Alerts for keywords for jobs that you are looking for new jobs.   However this will occasionally bring in those Ghost Jobs because companies will re-post the same job and Google will see these as new jobs and not old jobs.  So you should be cautious about which ones to apply to.  Networking is the best way I can tell you to finding a job, because it is something that has been proven in the past to land a job even in my case.  If you know someone who works at Microsoft, they can probably put in a good word for you to get that job you are wanting.

Remember, you’re not alone in this more and more are finding my job asking the same questions.  Don’t forget to check out Strategic Job Applications: How AI Can Be Your Secret Weapon to help you craft that cover letter and make sure your getting past the filters that is setup to be seen by a recruiter or hiring manager.

Confirmed : A large amount of Lay offs in April and May!

Paul

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It’s looking like a big problem coming our way!

  • Gulf Stevedoring Services, LLC  – 11 to 50 People –  4/30/2024
  • Safran Cabin, Inc. – 251 -500 People –  4/30/2024
  • Denbury Inc – 101 – 250 People –  4/30/204
  • Expedia – 101 – 250 People – 4/30/2024
  • BuzzFeed – 51 to 100 People – 4/30/2024
  • Levi Strauss & Co. – 101 to 250 People – 4/27/2024
  • Del Monte Foods, Inc. – 101 to 250 People – 4/26/2024
  • UPS – 251 to 500 People – 4/27/2024
  • Rio Grand Valley Sugar Growers – 251 to 500 People – 4/29/2024 (*)
  • AVMAC LLC – 101 to 250 People – 4/30/2024
  • RaterLabs – 2501 to 5,000 People – 4/6/2024
  • Walmart – 101 – 250 People – 5/31/2024
  • Cisco –  451 to 1000 People – 4/15/2024

I perused the Warntracker and got some of the data to show you just how much this might a be problem coming to all of us.    As of writing this today 3/12/2024, this could become even more people who will be told they are laid off.   The real question is, are you keeping track of your own company that you are working for to help you prevent yourself from getting laid off.   If you are in a big company and you are worried you might be next the best thing I can tell you to do is create alerts for you using Google and have them be sent to you as soon as Google finds out about it.  Google will send that to your email when and how often you tell it to.   As of right now Q1 is almost to the 50,000 employees who have been laid off.

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My thoughts

Other than Rio Grand Valley Sugar Growers, All the other ones are probably not normal.   I don’t know about Rio Grand and if they are laying people off due to growing seasons but I do not think this is going to end well for the industry as a whole.  Each one of these are not just tech but are in the Retail, Technology, food, and other areas.  So you can see this will impact a lot of people around the US and the world to be able to find a job.   I’ve talked about finding a job is hard right now, this will make even harder for everyone to do so many people will be looking for work if they don’t get severance pay or some kind of pay.   They will not be able to get unemployment for a while if they are claiming severance and that could cause problems down the road for other workers.  What we will see in the coming months are people working harder for less pay, I am almost sure of that, if something isn’t done and the Fed will probably not cut interest rates right now due to down turn of the economy.  This will be a short blog post but it should show you to at least be watchful of what to come.