The Deuce: As an aside, my old employer just posted my job again

I’m interested in people’s recent interactions with the job market. - Carl Spackler April 14, 2026, 7:28:26

As an aside, my old employer just posted my job again - TarheelIllini April 15, 2026, 21:22:25

I'm looking and have applied to probably around 20 jobs that definitely fit my extensive skillset - Taz April 15, 2026, 19:23:42
I'm really not looking forward to it. * - doubledown April 15, 2026, 16:00:22
april marked 9 months of looking for me. i started a temp job this week that might turn perm - torinese April 15, 2026, 15:20:43
- It's extraordinarily depressing to hear stories like this. In my mind, the only way to get a job - ATL April 15, 2026, 15:25:03
  - Have to be a perfect fit at the right time... takes a stroke of luck to land an "adult" job. - uofi1998 April 15, 2026, 15:58:08
  - i'll add my friends, family, and even loose connections have been GREAT trying to help me. but the - torinese April 15, 2026, 15:37:10
additional post: Friends son just graduated with a journalism degree - TarheelIllini April 14, 2026, 12:13:30
- They can go into corporate communications. AI is gonna eat some of those jobs... - tvillini April 14, 2026, 14:26:05
- How do you get a journalism major off of your front porch? - Sounder April 14, 2026, 13:26:43
- Yeah he's fucked.* - Warrin'_Illini April 14, 2026, 13:26:03
  - That’s what I think too, but can’t say it* - TarheelIllini April 14, 2026, 13:49:43
    - We need to have a discussion about employment options when AI takes all the email jobs. - Warrin'_Illini April 14, 2026, 13:56:50
Son’s firm has difficulty recruiting talent to Pittsburgh - Potomac April 14, 2026, 11:41:47
- I'd absolutely recommend a young grad to move to Pittsburgh. Lots of stuff going on and cheap. - ATL April 14, 2026, 12:16:20
  - Many employees had a regional tie, or academic @ CMU, etc* - Potomac April 14, 2026, 14:39:59
  - Same—had a buddy move there from DC back in the late 90’s. Was crazy how cheap it was comparatively - DT April 14, 2026, 13:25:21
    - I must be night and day compared to the '90s. We felt it changing (for the better) from '09-'22 - ATL April 14, 2026, 13:31:49
      - Pittsburgh and Philly are awesome places to live* - Sounder April 14, 2026, 13:56:41
      - And it switched from a dirty industrial city - TarheelIllini April 14, 2026, 13:51:34
- it's a fun city, I have a friend who's oldest son is raising a family there - TarheelIllini April 14, 2026, 12:15:54
Been at my job for 7 years. Our department is having a lot of turnover - DanSaint April 14, 2026, 11:30:42
5 years of at least kicking tires... very little real action. - uofi1998 April 14, 2026, 11:23:16
I switched jobs 6 months ago - snipes824 April 14, 2026, 11:21:08
My experience hiring has been that there are two totally different job markets - Desert April 14, 2026, 10:23:27
- Also...without an internal rec I don't think you get talked to at all. * - haighter April 14, 2026, 10:24:14
Is your company filting out applicants before they ever get to you...and filtering the wrong ones? * - haighter April 14, 2026, 10:15:19
- I doubt it. We’re past the applicant stage, now almost exclusively reaching out to people* - Carl Spackler April 14, 2026, 11:14:34
I'm hiring now, similar job in a different department had ~100 applicants this winter, used to get - ijustkrushalot April 14, 2026, 8:55:11
It’s a jungle out there - bbonb April 14, 2026, 8:44:42
i'm on a search committee for a senior admin position and we had 50 applications - lcubed April 14, 2026, 8:33:28
- References can be hard -- because you can't really ask your current coworkers* - Quiz April 15, 2026, 19:34:56
I hired someone a few months ago for an administrative/operations position - biclops April 14, 2026, 8:22:36
- Yeah this is our experience. # of candidates =\ quality of pool* - Carl Spackler April 14, 2026, 8:49:21
We have a couple of open positions... - EffinIllini April 14, 2026, 8:14:35
I searched hard from Feb-Oct, 2025 - TarheelIllini April 14, 2026, 8:07:43
- Similar. I applied to around 300 openings from Feb-Oct 2025. Got two interviews. - DT April 14, 2026, 8:17:36
We had two positions posted - over 700 applicants - ISeeDeadHawkeyes April 14, 2026, 7:56:21
We recently advertised a remote, technical, field based job and were overwhelmed with applicants - opey8 April 14, 2026, 7:36:50
- Are they good applicants? We get a lot of applicants, but there’s gotta be bots out there. - Carl Spackler April 14, 2026, 7:43:01
  - We had a bunch of good applicants. Again, maybe industry realted? - opey8 April 14, 2026, 8:50:31
There are a number of openings in my field, both locally and nationally, - ghost_of_clt April 14, 2026, 7:35:56
- Money is definitely not the issue for us. Location might be, even though in a major metro. - Carl Spackler April 14, 2026, 7:45:03
We've had several positions open up here recently and I'm interviewing four candidates for - ATL April 14, 2026, 7:34:48
- How much does posting all day on internet message boards pay?* - Stu April 14, 2026, 8:58:36

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