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Oh look, it's me. Except I've put in 600 applications in 6 months without a single response. 15 years as a Devops engineer at fortune 100 companies, and can't make it to round one.
The world of online jobs is basically the same enshitification as online dating.
In the hypothetical sense you have the opportunity to find more jobs than at any time in the history of employment. But employers also have to field more (and mostly unqualified) applicants than ever before.
So they can find more potential employees, and you can find more jobs, but ultimately the end user experience 9/10 times is just getting buried under a 10,000 person stack of other applicants. You may be the best person for a job, but not even get an interview because the person on the other end of the machine doesnt have time to actually look through that stack.
And then worse yet, job search companies capitalize on knowing they create a demoralizing atmosphere and use that to push products on people. Resume help, professional career guidance, etc etc. Job search companies, like dating companies, dont really want any of their end users to find that much success. They want you to keep applying to jobs. Its the same reason why they dont do more to trim down unqualified applicants for employers. They sell companies on virtual interview bullshit and the like instead. Solutions that just make everything worse
not to mention alot of listings are ghosts listings, and they love to phish for resume so they can use it to screen out more people. also the other side of ghost listing is that they already have someone they hired internally but they put out the listing anyways on job sites.
Not to mention that even the companies are suffering from the system they themselves built. The gamified and enshittified hiring process doesn't improve the quality of the workers they get, it just filters the candidates based on a bunch of unrelated skills.
The talent pool has always skewed towards people who know how to play the game, rather than actual talent... but now "the game" they're playing isn't even about useful skillls like human charisma or networking, it's about handling or misleading poorly designed AI tools.