The Job Hunt is DEAD | Sarah Andrus | TEDxWilmingtonUniversity

Sarah Andrus describes the changing paradigm of employment in the U.S.

Sarah Andrus is the owner of Your Career Sherpa.

[bradsmithy]

It's funny how companies are "scrambling" to fill the 6 million jobs in the USA in 2018 (more jobs than people unemployed).
Yet applicants are still required to a have 2 years experience in the field and a 4 year degree for "entry level" jobs, that only really require a 6 month certification and pay less than 40k a year with no benefits...

[Jim-yntt]

I'm a 52 year old firefighter who is looking for a new career. I have a great resume, but cant get anyone to even see me, even though my resume shows I have the skills. Now when you apply online, they have you take the Wonscore test. I feel it's unfair to give a personality test and than say you didnt meet the job requirements before even meeting with me. It's very frustrating.

[willardchi]

No. The obvious question should be why do employers continue to use applicant tracking software if that software makes so many blunders? Sounds to me like those employers don't really want to go through the bother of hiring the best people. Just good enough people.

[ibra__]

Job hunting is becoming so difficult that you have to bribe hiring manager with donuts so that you land a job or an interview, so sad smh😔

[xyz-]

Im so frustrating recently to find a job

[Rebirth]

Is there an introvert version of this?

[Big_delta]

To anyone watching, speed it up 1.5 playback 👍

[PatrickAshe]

I hear this often, but anecdotally, it's always case-by-case. In the past, I've spent about as much time networking as applying online. Roughly 50/50. I've scored four professional jobs by applying online and one by networking. I know how it's supposed to work in theory; I've heard things like this from my parents since childhood. It's just not my experience. I've had dozens upon dozens of conversations like she describes, and people are usually friendly and everything, but then I hear some mix of the following: "If we have any positions, they would be posted online. Check the website." "You're doing all the right things; something should pop up soon." "I've got your info; I'll be sure to share it." "I'll let you know if I hear anything."

[robertdirocco]

As a 51yo now looking for employment after a 12 year run in corporate America I get the proverbial "over qualified" which is code for too old now-a-days.

I go over the numbers that show why I don't expect to come close to my old salary as that was a 12 year income growth, and explain that I bring ideas from my experience that would help their company.

It's tough when the people interviewing tell me that the graduated college a year or two earlier, and this is their first job. They really don't understand what human resources is actually set up for. At this point I may just go in business for myself.

Good luck out there everyone

[veronicaatkins]

I needed this motivation my job search was beginning to send me into a depression

[eastcoastguy]

uhhh..can you tell me why recruiters never call back?

[lifeonearth]

I'm tired of all of this. I'm exhausted and thoroughly bored with life on earth. Tired of spending my life revolving it around money and jobs. Too bad the only other options are homelessness or some primate life in the middle of the jungle.

[georgeblake-gm]

I totally disagree. I've been a hiring manager for over 30 years and a job seeker several times. There is no one ideal way to get a job. And this idea of networking that every management "expert"pushes results in remarkably few jobs and is deeply unrealistic and not something people should keep promoting. It's the way some people  want it to be and think it should be and they feel good about it. But I know that, personally, every time some barely known person or a friend of a friend wants to suck away large volumes of my time to talk all about them so they can "network", it's nothing but annoying. Networking wastes huge amounts of time. People are busy and have work to do and lives.  Requiring and prescribing that suddenly the whole world has to connect and spend energy in this way fits some weird worldview they have but is unfair and counterproductive in many ways. And linked in is horrible and a trend I would like to see die down - An absurd requirement to find work.  Why does anyone have to blast their life history in detail to the entire world to find work? And we waste way to much time with artificial relationships and meaningless interaction in personal social media as it is without it forced into the professional world in this manner. People should use multiple methods of job hunting and no one should rely on networking (Aka pestering) their way in to a job. Personally I think the old fashioned way of advertise a job to the public, people apply, the best candidates are selected, a screening process ensues and the job is filled is the best and most objective and efficient and least wasteful. Yes it doesn't have the touchy feely  modern  vibe of networking and fit the model of the same people who think
Every work space should be an open floor plan with plenty of ping pong tables and bean bags chairs etc.  And it involves  some hard work for hiring managers, but it's objective, efficient and equally open to all, doesn't involve how well someone can socialize or schmooze, doesn't waste loads of unrelated people's time and energy and patience, doesn't overtax friendships and professional relationships, doesn't rely on artificiality and an endless, desperate "conversation" with anyone remotely connected to the work you want,  and is truly fair. These management "gurus" need to stop pushing this message of network network social media and network.  It's a backward, nasty agenda and should be only a very small part of most people's job hunt.

[JustinKenward]

"Millennial are in their 20's."

Me, a first year millennial watching this at 40 years old.

[cruisepaige]

Put the keywords (the job description) in white font in your resume). It’s the only way.

[paulazemeckis]

uh....she failed to explain what alternatives to job searching there are other than the usual. disappointed.

[pineapplesoda]

Totally agree that "getting out there" and meeting people in your target industry is the best to get a job; it's certainly the way I found my present position.

[wwhhaattt]

Yea Yea but what happens when you go to these companies for a job and the point you right back to online application? I just wasted gas and time when I could have just filled out the application in the first place. I was turned away from lots of jobs trying to network and show up. So I don't see how either works.

[orirune]

Too bad the intersection of my skills, interests, and the market doesn't actually exist :(

Also, I personally find it horrendous that literally showing up at the door of the hiring manager with donuts only got him an interview with one out of four of them. So 3/4 of them _still_ ignored him.

[teribrown]

Temp jobs use to be a great way to network. Also it was a way to research job skills needed when handing in a resume. Temp jobs have disappeared.