I have a $100k job posted that I got 10 resumes for. I had to keep it open for 3 months to get 10 resumes. Another $75k job was posted by my org, got 3 resumes. I’ve been hiring people for 15+ years and I normally get 20-50 applicants for jobs at various levels (very specialized field). Something is wrong.
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Depopulation. No reason for this kind of labor shortage during a recession. I understand some people became self employed during covid but that doesn't explain away the labor shortages to the level we're seeing.
Another factor is that I have noticed is that during times of recession, people who have jobs tend to stay put. If you have a stable job that pays the bills, you are far less likely to rock the boat and put yourself out there (people are less willing to take the risk).
Totally agree. Being the 'new hire' at a company - especially a private one where you have no clue how solvent they are and could be (often secretly) struggling - means you'll be among the first people laid off when the company downsizes for the deepening recession and looming depression.
That’s where I’m at right now. I have a stable job and seniority where I am. I have an opportunity for a position that pays $60k/yr more. But if the market keeps tanking and they roll things back I’d probably be the first on the chopping block. I could really use the money but I’m not sure if it’s worth the risk.
This right here... I hear this a lot.
As a hiring manager, it can drive ya nuts but I don't blame people at all for not wanting to take the risk.
Every time there has been an economic downturn, I see people hunkering down. They stop spending (start saving), paying off debt when possible, and they don't leave their jobs if they feel like their job is solid.
Good insight
Not only depopulation but also many peeps are coming out of the workforce due to DISABILITIES injuries from the vaccine. Ed Dowd has done a lot of work on this. Also, when someone is disabled this creates Caretaker demand to care for these disabled peeps which also adds to the worker shortage problem.
Oh that's great insight! Definitely a factor
OnlyFans isn’t self-employment.
You are selling a product through a third party retailer and getting paid for it.
It is literally self employment, regardless of whether or not you or I agree with the choice.
For that matter, selling videos on ManyVids or Clips4Sale is also self employment.
Sex work is one of the oldest professions. It's repulsive and I don't like it, but it is what it is.
Oh, you said that like it came from my own mouth. Well said.
Name checks out
It's the oldest form of self-employment in human history.
Many people will NOT work for companies that require the jab. When you read the "fine print" on many jobs, they require prospective employees to be fully vaccinated as a condition to being offered the job. This jab requirement eliminates a very large percentage of the U.S. working age population from even applying for these jobs! Companies could easily test this hypothesis - post a job opening and state that there are no jab requirements for this specific job. Sit back and evaluate the response....
Jab not required
May I ask what the positions are?
If that isn't clearly stated, you might want to be more explicit about it.
To up your ante, state, "only unvaccinated purebloods will be accepted for the job."
At the very least, all applicants will have the ability to discern information properly, have the courage to follow their convictions, and demonstrate leadership and growth potential.
The job poster will immediately get high character candidates and then it's just figuring out if they have the skill set necessary to do the job.
Reason: " Vaccinated individuals are shown to shed the MRNA vaccine on others, and we care about the safety of our employees".
Watch the REEEEE storm ensue. . Along with some quality people!
Also if they can acquire the skillset for the job.
A lot of jobs include training for a reason. Sometimes you are trying to offer a long term career to someone in their 20s or 30s and are willing to invest into them, which helps gain loyal and hard working employees for the long term.
I’ve been at the same company for 10+ years. My first job in the profession I went to college for and on the job trained my way to working directly for the CIO. Other opportunities came and went but I stayed loyal to the company that raised me as their own. That loyalty is wavering though, after almost being let go for not drinking the mRNA KoolAid
^this.
Ahh sweet liberty..Might even lower cost of company health care
Very good point. I bet it will. The vaxx may have been free, but all of the lifelong (however shortened it may be) ailments from side effects sure aren't free to treat.
Sum Ting Wong.
I agree though. WTF did all the employees go?
I just received a $20K/yr raise!
I told them about the 15-27 calls I have been receiving PER DAY from a single Monster resume!
They had no choice but to step up.
Thanks!
Life changer!
Should help me move my family to a red state.
Not always simple. They still want experience if your a college grad. They know your one too. Or they say we picked someone else, and you see the listing is still up months later.
Yes the experience thing is very annoying.
Maybe alot of women are staying home with the kiddos? I am now that I have one. Covid made a lot of them realize we'd rather eat mud than have our kids raised by strangers and indoctrinated in schools just to afford an inflated house price.
I knew it beforehand but I'm sure alot of married working age women woke up to it.
That's actually one of the best thoughts on the subject I've heard.
This is definitely a thing. Talked to three women just yesterday that told me COVID made them choose long term home schooling.
Mine did
Work-from-home jobs hired on by out-of-country employers. I cant tell you how many people I know now that have been hired to work for companies in the UK, for instance. smdfh
Oh this funny. "Sum Ting Wong"
Are you managing the hiring yourself or are you sending it through HR?
HR has always been a nuisance but in the last five years or so I've noticed they've taken on more responsibility and become extremely destructive to the hiring process and employee retention. They distort job requirements, focus on irrelevance, treat candidates disrespectfully, run them through the ringer with paperwork & onboarding bullshit, etc.
My girlfriend is in the process of being run off by HR from a company that is desperate to hire people. She's already contracting with the company and they want to hire her directly. Should be simple, right? Well let's see how bad HR can fuck it up:
She is required to do all the same paperwork again.
She is required to take a drug test again.
She is required to list out her precise work history from 7+ years back and they insult her if anything doesn't match their tracking system.
And yeah, this is a 6 figure job too... She's getting calls every day so any time she wants to hop to something slightly less frustrating she can do it.
I don't know why the candidate pool is small, but the reasons companies are having problems tapping what is there are abundant. HR is a profession for bitter spouse-shopping fuckups and if you let them interfere with your hiring process you will get out-maneuvered by more personable companies.
Can’t say HR is helping the situation. They literally let an admin negotiate salary and benefits.
Ask to see the candidates they're turning down and the details of any job postings or recruiter agreements . They may be fucking up some basic keyword matching, throwing people out for arbitrary things, or scaring candidates off with pronouns, masking, or other woke shit.
I won't bore you with the details but I've watched this happen as both a candidate and hiring manager and it's horrifying. Some of your problems may be in-house.
HR is a tool of the cabal same as a doctor or legislator. They implement the agenda with total precision and indifference.
Having done minor HR tasks, having had hiring manager responsibilities in the past, I can attest to this first hand.
Also, the little hiring kiosks and online only applications have gotten totally out of hand. White collar jobs are a labyrinth of superfluous forms, and blue collar jobs are needlessly convoluted.
You don't need fancy HR and hiring software if your application process is simple and on-boarding process is straight forward. Just saying it's one more needless complexity that tbh, I'm not gonna go through.
If someone wants my talent, I'm not gonna play monkey boy and dance for you when we both know I'm a good fit and can do the job. IMO, a LOT of people feel the same way. Job mobility has had the brakes on for some time.
https://avenica.com/insights/employers-demand-too-much-and-it-makes-hiring-harder-with-gb/
HR's can be a disaster for companies in my experience. They are the gatekeepers of the company. If they suck at their job, then the company will hire the worst kind of people. The remaining good ones will get driven off.
If a company wants to flourish they have to make sure they have competent people in HR. The kind who have a good eye for people.
Bad HR = Bad company (eventually)
Good HR = Good company.
They are the ones who invite someone in.
If the guard at the door let's in thugs, criminals, and thieves, it won't be long before you'll find your home ransacked.
Probably a friend of theirs.
HR is not for hiring.
You need your mid level management to do that.
Great rant! I concur. I see the HR department as the corporate equivalent of the Eff Bee Eye - "woke" and corrupt as hell. My employer is based in SF, CA and they are c-r-a-z-y woke!
The second that the Roe v Wade decision was reverted back to the states, our HR sent out a company-wide email telling me to "take time off if they need to" in order to 'cope'! But THEN, they followed up with another company-wide email telling everyone that they'll PAY for people to go out-of-state to get abortions PLUS give them 2 paid weeks off AND that they'll even pay to RELOCATE them to a state that doesn't have restrictions on abortions!!!! I shit you not!
My employer has a freaking DEPARTMENT for woke-ism called something like "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" and they push their agenda on every company call. And of course, they had mandatory training on all this shit for new hires. God, it makes me sick to my stomach! I'm looking elsewhere, but nothing I've found so far re: job openings in my field pays anywhere near what I'm making and I haven't even been at this company for 3 months yet. :-(
How did you get around their jab requirement?
Shockingly, this libby loon company didn't have a jab mandate.... which was practically my first question when I started interviewing with them. I couldn't believe it when they said they didn't have a jab requirement. It was one of the VERY FEW companies I interviewed with that didn't demand that as a condition of hire.
Umm, not sure what you are talking about at all.
Way too much competition is not what I’m getting. I wish.I used to get ample competition,, now I get none.
Postings for jobs do jot always mean a vaccancy exists.
Most companies are ALWAYS hiring talented people. It would be stupid not to.
There are roughly 7 million prime-aged men that have fallen out of the workforce in the last 2 years. By design.
How are they paying their bills though?
$75k in welfare benefits if you game the system properly. For each unmarried adult. $150k per “couple”
Only if you’re not married though. Once you get hitched the welfare gravy train dries up
75k? How
What?!
I haven't figured out how people are paying their bills. Unless of course, we are paying their bills. But what a life ...
We are. Apparently you can make up to $75k in welfare if you play it right
John Galt
? Sounds like a movie character but I don't watch movies.
"Atlas Shrugged"
The story is about America in decay as communists infiltrate our government and economy.
One man, John Galt, disappeared from society, and everyone asks "Who is John Galt?"
John Galt was a brilliant engineer who had created a source of infinite energy. The company he worked for became communist (woke), and refused to reward those who were productive, so he took his invention and disappeared one day. The company went bankrupt shortly after.
In the mountains of Colorado, he started working for himself. He invited others who refused to participate in communism to join him and work for themselves. They would trade with each other and respect each other's rights, but no communism was allowed.
Over time, brilliant minds, wealthy nobles, business leaders, and philosophers disappeared from society as they joined John Galt's little mountain enclave. There they watched the world burn.
When Obama was elected, a lot of people "went Galt" and just quit their jobs. They didn't need the money. They didn't need the trouble. And they were sick of paying taxes so degenerates could live off the public dole.
If you don't make money, you don't owe taxes. And there are ways to feed and clothe your family without money.
Ah, thank you. I've never read Atlas Shrugged and I had no idea this was the concept. I am more intrigued now. Appreciate the explanation, fren.
Yes! Same here. Hiring is nonexistent right now. Where is everybody? I keep asking that question.
As stated, a lot are not switching jobs.
Some are at home on tik tok.
Some are dead from the jab.
Some don't actually exist (fake registered voters and birth certificates created for fraud, shooter victims, etc.) This is anywhere from 1-33% of the current US population.
Some have been arrested. we've heard reported now 10s of thousands of arrests across the country, maybe 100s of thousands now, of pedos and traffickers arrested or killed.
Some went to Ukraine and are dead/prisoners.
Some are now handicapped, injured or deformed/crippled from the shot.
Some are gaming the system, living off loopholes in welfare and government handouts.
Some are certain to be Team Evil foot soldiers, living in DUMBs or the like, and have been killed by special forces/MI. Depending on who you listen to, this could be 10s or 100s of thousands.
In all, we're likely looking at 10 to 100 million in inflated, fake people who don't exist, and millions more who are dead for various reasons. Millions more disabled. Millions of teens making money on Twitch, YouTube, and who knows what else.
You aren't getting help anytime soon, unfortunately, pretty well like the rest of us.
My local postal distribution center cant get enough people.
Our PO has been short staffed since long before COVID
Because it pays like shit, has shitty benefits and they work you 6 days a week, 12 hours a day.
The postal service can’t get enough people with a pension attached?
I seriously wonder how families are paying their bills.
By running up credit card debt
"They're all dead sir"
How congested the roads here have become says that is a lie. Too many people coming here to South Dakota.
We're closed, folks! No vacancy!
Hire me and I'll apprentice for ten years if it takes that long.
I should clarify, I own a small business. And I would be HONORED if someone walked in and said that to me. Employers want long term, not a revolving door. Go and speak face to face. Not on indeed. Go beat the pavement. You're an absolute asset.
He just said go and meet someone face to face....
You want a job in a different field? Go figure out which field and then go find out which outfit you want to work for in that field and then get your ass in the car and drive over and shake hands and meet them.
On the flip side my brother graduated from his university about a year ago and has been applying to various entry level software dev jobs since then with no luck. He had a 3.8 gpa and a summer internship his last year. I’m not in the same field but I’ve looked over his resume and it seems fine, so not sure what the disconnect is with all these stories I hear like yours of a lack of applicants.
We did recently get an abundance of solid applicants for a software intern position, especially when we removed the on-site requirement.
That is a big one. I work remote. I never want to go back in the office full-time. I'll go in for something big (it's a 10 hour drive so maybe once a year) but I value my home office. I put under 1,000 miles on my car last year. I put 15k on it the last time I actually worked in the office (contracting). That was more than a $3k raise in gas savings alone. Less stress, more productivity, TV is on streaming all day (either OAN or music), nobody coming up to my desk, and I wear a polo shirt, shorts, and slippers. You can see my shirt on my cam.
When I'm on team meetings I can hear all the noise in the background. I don't think I could stand it anymore in an office environment. My job can be done anywhere with good internet and a computer with plenty of monitors/screen space. I don't even take vacation until the end of the year - why should I? I'm already at home.
More employers should start to use that in negotiations. I've probably worked over 20 years from home when you count up a couple of different jobs I had. You will get employees. Obviously only certain jobs can work from home, but those are probably some of the harder ones to hire for since they are usually technical or specialized. Remote jobs also give the employer a MUCH bigger worker pool of talent to choose from since your next employee could be in a cabin in Montana, up in the mountains and off the grid, with starlink - or they could be right down the street.
Just my 2 cents.
I've worked from home for the past 14 years. I love it. When I have a few minutes, I can vacuum or throw in some laundry or even use the bathroom in private. I would never go back to an office. Gas, wear and tear on my car, time spent in traffic, all things that I don't have to worry about. It's truly life changing.
One big reason is that city mayors and councils are putting big pressure on companies to bring the workers back. Building leasings can come up and a lot of companies are like "Why do I need giant office space in the city when my workers are remote?"
It hits the restaurants, all the services that cater to the office workers, the transportation (trains, toll rolls ect) and it hits the state and city taxes hard when workers don't come to the office.
So there is big pressure to bring them back.
Management that thinks remote workers screw off all day is the reason. Granted, there are some people who just can't do it, but most people are more productive.
As a software dev, that’s troubling to hear.
The software dev field survived fairly well during the Obummer recession (I was able to get my first job in 2011) but I’m wondering if that will not be the case this time.
I have a job at a small company, but the company is being run into the toilet by a leftist moron with no business sense, so it’s starting to feel like time to move… but not if there’s such a glut of applicants.
Granted, everyone I’ve worked with in the last 10 years have been pretty iffy in their abilities and quality of work, but even if the pool of applicants is mostly low quality, that still makes the job market tougher for me.
Does he have a portfolio online of stuff he’s made so employers can check his code? That’s a big one.
What is he proficient with as far as programming languages? If he can’t write what’s hot, he won’t get calls.
If it’s a general lack of work history, he can always get a job at a help desk. The level 1 people can barely take accurate messages so if he shows up and documents well he will get a promo really fast. Time will create a work history but the challenge will be not wanting to kill yourself because your coworkers are idiots and he will need to keep coding or his skills will deteriorate. Or if he likes systems and can code he could get really good with scripting changes in short order. When you’re the guy affecting hundreds or thousands of systems with config changes you get paid really well to wield that power.
It’s not my field so I can’t answer specifics about what he knows but I appreciate you taking the time to write out advice. I’m going to pass along the info and hopefully it’ll help him out.
Maybe a whole lot of people did the math, possibly because COVID changed people's habits.
If you have small children, it makes no sense, including financial sense, to put them in childcare, even after school childcare.
It makes more sense to take a part-time job that pays well than to take a full-time job that pays well, because, after a certain amount, almost half the income goes to income and employee/employer payroll taxes. This happens at the point when the federal income tax goes from 12 to 22 percent.
"Career tracks" make no sense at all.
Add this up, and there would be far less people applying for jobs.
Just saw an article the other day stating that for the first time in history a majority of working class Americans are working 2 or more part time jobs, favoring more flexibility in schedules over a traditional 9-5. Makes sense if the majority working class age is now millennials. With the rising cost of well, everything, having flexibility in childcare is really hard for people.
On a separate note it seems that many people retired early during Covid and there just aren’t adequately skilled/specialized folks to replace them.
A decade ago, aging men in the water and sewage system departments wondered who were going to replace them, as their work had been deemed "demeaning", so no one wished to get into their field.
A field where it would be quite easy to make bank, with benefits and more.
They had a shortage then, and I can only imagine the shortage many of these field have now.
College graduates think they are "too good" for the job, and those that would don't seem to be specializing in any skills that would help them take over.
It's only going to get worse until we start teaching our children (and adults) to take pride in all jobs, and that infrastructure work is not demeaning.
We have to replace the "you won't get a worthwhile job unless you have a college degree" mindset
Honestly, I said work skills, but basic things like good work ethic and pride in your work are lost on the younger generations.
There are many jobs and opportunities that take apprenticeships, or will train you for the job.
There are many of the younger generation who still won't take them, because they look down on anything they might deem "demeaning", even if it's a 6 figure job in the end.
So many young people want a fun, exciting job, where they aren't going to get bored, so they take whatever job they can for the time being, hate it, barely work, and then quit.
The few that do show any type of initiative, get grabbed by whoever they can, and it's always not the best (My brother is an amazingly hard worker, and extremely smart. He became a manager at Walmart at 19 because of his work ethic, and he's been there since. He would flourish at another job, but he's stable and makes good money at walmart, so he stays)
I definitely agree with the majority of what you said in both your comments, especially re: trades/infrastructure being looked down upon and their importance. The one point I diverge on is this:
“basic things like good work ethic and pride in your work are lost on the younger generations”
I disagree, as a peak of career middle class worker, I, and many others my age have watched companies prioritize profits over people, erode pensions, retirement benefits, incentives, pay, promotions - pretty much treat the American worker like a wage slave in India while dangling the “you can be replaced at anytime” sentiment over our head. Companies churn out billion dollar profits year over year and cut their fat cats huge checks while the peons at the bottom have to fist fight each other for a scrap of security. The days of “hard work pays off” is an ethic that is used to try and incentivize what essentially is subsidizing the employee to profit the company. I have family in the age bracket I believe you’re either from or referencing who live now comfortably on pensions and insurance, provided by jobs their spouse worked at and yet the majority of people I know - regular middle class middle aged workers - cannot survive on their current incomes. In many cases their working salary is less than the pensions the retired folks receive. Jobs with a pension are next to none. It takes 2 people’s income to live on. The quality of life has been eroded, and it’s not because young people refuse to work hard. It’s because the rich enrich themselves at the expense of the poor. Peasants vs. Kings. I still work with coworkers who are 60 years old plus, They have worked hard their entire life and have nothing to show for it because everything they’ve done is wiped out by the corrupt system. Most of my generation understand that no matter how hard we work we will not be able to retire. Social Security will be gone by the time we come of age due to mismanagement and corruption. Many of us will not be able to buy a house despite being in our 30s-40s. More wealth has been eroded from my generation than any other generation in recent history. Hard work, does not fix corruption, horrible economic policies, erosion of community and small business, and terrible fiscal policies. The world is changed and the era of hard work is rewarded is over. It’s not wrong for workers to not care about companies who don’t care about them. Companies lack integrity anymore and the average worker can see it. The work reflects accordingly.
Im 27, and the oldest of many kids who are all getting into the work force.
I agree with much of what you are saying, especially with how corporations are run and how they treat workers, and the mindset and mentality of it all.
But, what I am specifically referring to, is while many of these jobs may not be the greatest, or pay the best, even when they are, many of the younger generation simply don't take their work seriously or take pride in their work.
Examples; I worked at a small walgreens for awhile. It honestly was pretty easy and paid decently. I did simple things like checking the expiration dates on milks, and other daily tasks that others didnt do.
I felt like I was barely doing anything there(because they dont ask much of you), and always tried to find something to do or learn. Because of this, they wanted to promote me very quickly, and increase my pay.
Every other new person they hired after me complained incessantly that the work was boring, or if they had something to do, that it was boring, or demeaning, or they didnt want to work or do it.
Many of them sat on their phones as much as they could.
Another example.
My brother is younger than my by about 4 years.
He makes more than my mother who has been a legal secretary for 30 years.
He got promoted a year after working at walmart, because he did the work right.
He fixed issues that built up over years, that were things people were supposed to do everyday, (like rotating veggies. He found literal years of rotting produce, because of old product being left in the back)
He worked with his managers to get anyone who works in his department, some of the highest pay in the store.
Everyone he works with constantly complains about the work.
They complain its dirty, its tiring, its tedious, its etc.etc.etc.
I loved working in his area when I moved from walgreens to walmart (pay increase). It was so easy(not the heavy lifting, but the actual list of work) and it was work that kept you busy so the time went by super fast.
He cant keep anyone working in his area.
He used to have old people who worked but couldnt carry the heavy stuff, and he'd much rather have them, over the 20 year olds, who constantly complain the work sucks and sit on their phones.
It does not matter if we have good companies or good working conditions, if kids are being told that most jobs are worthless and demeaning, and the only ones working are high paying ones where you work in an office all day, and browse facebook.
It doesnt matter how much a job pays or benefits you, when there are those who will complain.
Last example, one of my first jobs was doing banquets, it was some of the hardest work of my life, but you could be paid amazingly (I got 800$ for a days worth of work once)
12-16 hour days sometimes, but its why you were paid good(and they took care of you anyway they could if you were working long hours, including giving you a free hotel room if you didnt want to drive home late)
So many people wanted to do it after a coworker started bragging about his pay(we pulled banquet workers from a staff at a restaurant)
Yet, not once did we have a new person who joined our team after, who didnt complain incessantly once it started getting late, or the work started getting difficult.
We had people who would disappear during the work they didnt want to do, or would take half hour long smoke breaks throughout the day, while the main team kept quietly working.
The main team stayed while we cycled through an endless amount of young people.
So yes. I agree that corporations and companies are trash and should burn, but it doesnt help any good companies, if these are the workers they get.
Everyone is working part time jobs because they're aren't any full time jobs anymore. They all got shipped over seas.
Which state? What kind of work?
I won’t dox myself. But it’s a very specialized field, zoning and land planning.
I really love the Smartcode and the CNU
Your job boards are filtered. You don’t see all the applicants. You only get trash approved by commies but the left doesn’t want to work so there are not many.
Do applicants have to be vaxed? Those are the postings I see that seem to be posted for months.
Nope. Not permitted in my state.
Thats good! Well I was fired, started retirement early, maybe that is what happened to older folks who still wanted to work for 10 more years? Found out they could make it with less and said screw it. Many younger folks don't seem to want to work, mom and dad are taking care of them, or they have no skills or experience ?
What field are you in? I’m not able to find qualified people for accounting services.
Well I have been sending out 25 resumes a day and zero calls! I even sent mine to a college professor to see what was wrong. I always in the past got calls immediately. I don't think these agencies/headhunter's are delivering them!
general strike from a stolen election
My company has the same problem for $100k+ positions.
Turnover is typically low, but due to all the people retiring and needing more people.
We've gained 10 people in a year of hiring, that's not normal. Now we need 45 -50 people and barely got 20.
The zombe narrative that we have seen fo many years is in full play
My experience. This past Saturday, I go to my regular hometown bank, there's a note on the window apologizing for any wait as they are "short staffed", never happened before in 30 years. My MIL's nursing home cannot open a remodeled wing because, short staffed, inability to find new staff, they were supposed to open it in mid August, still not open. Walgreens, been told they are short staffed. Went to my doctor for normal visit last week, was rescheduled for 6 month follow up while still in exam room which is new, why? You guessed it, they are short staffed. This is 4 separate instances of short staffing across 4 different organizations. There is death and maiming happening and no one mainstream is talking about it.
I heard the 2 TRILLION Covid package money is still being doled out…
u/HeartofStone
I've had success with business coaching. Some of these providers can provide great assistance with the hiring process. Just as important and perhaps more importantly, they help you get your business systems in place to really scale and create effective dashboards to monitor your business goals and progress.
Maybe look into ActionCoach as an example. You can start with a coffee meeting to understand their process and see if they are a good fit for you and your company.
Yes. I found this also.
Trying to hire and got no take.
What kind of job and where? Legit ready to get away from tech.
Land planning/zoning
I have a resume to send you if you’re in the Orlando area.
Same here, Hiring manager for Courier company.
Went from 5 to 10 applications per day pre scamdemic to 1-3 actual.
Indeed is a scam btw
I'll apply for yer 100k job fren. Hehe
You might want to look at how tasks are managed, and how you could use part-time employees if needed. Then go after them -- at-home parents with kids in elementary school, retirees, etc. Have a Virtual option if practical. You will often tap into more enthusiastic, and more qualified, people this way. Your being in a specialized field may make it easier. It shouldn't be that hard to find the (currently reluctant) prospects. Many employers are successfully navigating the change in the economy, but it takes some thought, and acceptance that the situation probably won't change.
Im in a specialized field as well and I’m getting 5-10 cold calls a week about potential new jobs. I’m grateful but to your point super confused
Not confused at all. This is our collective experience. Me and others.
Conspiracies aside (true or not):
Where are you posting?
If it isn't TikTok then ypu are missimg the Young Folks.
If it isn't Facebook then you are missing a Market.
Did you put ads up in places prospective employees may frequent? (Supply shops and such)
I ran my own company for 22 years providing personal training for clients who had just been discharged from physical therapy. (I worked as a therapist for the 15 years before that.) I lost so many clients to covid over the past year, so I decided to look into employment opportunities unrelated to physical therapy. So far, I can't find anything paying better than $40,000.
Any ideas? My skills are diverse. I would love to work from home performing project-managing type of duties.