50 Posts From People Fed Up With Unrealistic Requirements And Expectations When Trying To Find A Job

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In Europe companies demand full doctorates and 20 years of experience, but the applicants must be 18 years old, working 30h a day, 8days a week, and preferably pay for the privilege to work with the company

Reminds me of that one 'smart' company that wanted 10 years experience in a programming language - that at that point - only existed for two. Pure brainacs.

YES!!!!!!

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The most frustrating of all!!. Should be higher.

This 100% Why do they insist on this?

I actually openly avoid companies that do this. It tells me that the company wastes a lot of manpower amd doesn't think things through. I dont mind one or the other, but not both.

Takes way longer than manually filling out paper applications used to—-and at least with those, you actually got to talk to a real person!

This 1000x

YES! The only reason they don't include it is because they want to try and pay you as little as they can get away with.

I don't even apply for a job anymore without knowing the salary. The amount of times I've had my time wasted and been seriously lowballed is extreme!

Yes, this drives me nuts! its a waste of time for everyone involved

If you can't tell me the salary, your not trying to be competitive. Pass.

I'm a hiring manager. I agree! But we can't just list a salary. Some people come to me making $65k at their current job. If I want them, I'd pitch $75k on the offer. But if they come to me making $75 already i might offer $85k. Professional white collar jobs have a salary range, not just a salary. Hourly jobs are much more predictable.

THIS!!!!

Throw out the algorithms and metrics and once again have HUMANS read applications. Don’t give me the excuse that you don’t have enough personnel to read them all. F*****g HIRE some!!!

my wife works in a "pink" collar profession. She took a few years off when our kids were young. Now after she reentered the work space the women who dominate the profession have black balled her reentering at a professional level. Mean girls.

We don't. We value family and care about health. Just be able to explain the gap without sounding shady and it's all fine.

Yes!!! Some people are just totally clueless.

So accurate it hurts. Don't forget the mountain of student loan debt because tuition inflation is so much higher than normal inflation. I started college in 2008 and since then the tuition cost has gone up almost 1.5 times.

There was a comment just now that was deleted about young people "crying into their avocado toast". It's really really weird how many people are attacking and judging people based on what kind of coffee or toast they like. If you like said coffee or toast, you evidently don't deserve to be able to make a living at all and should be killed. Was on a website the other day where they started talking about how Trump had made us safe against Russia and China (rather than being an obvious shill for them) and they were particularly angry against anyone who drank lattes. And those who suddenly realized how dangerous China was stopped drinking lattes and this somehow was supposed to mean something. That we have to hear such stupid pig-swill opinions from inane idiots is the greatest failing of modern social communications.

I wasn't talking about either of those subjects. I'm saying that, no matter what age you live in, you will be likely to struggle when it comes to employment and finances.

Damn, Jane, calm down

Woah that Jane S. is probably a baby boomer.

That is absolutely epic. :D

Too many humans nowadays. If I open a spot for a more entry level type position I get hundreds of applications. Its awful.

HAHAHAHAHA

Gold! Love this.

Lol this is brilliant.

You should have applied, for the bants.

Yeah - "5 years experience in Windows 2000" It was 1999.

He could just apply and tell them that he created the damn thing. Besides that he probably didn't develop it over night so arguably could claim 4 + years experience.

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Have heard that many companies post things like this so that no one from within the country can possibly get the position, so that they can hire in people on visas from other countries who will work for 1/4 of the pay.

It is normal to discuss salaries. I am an employer, had some interviews as I hired three people (small office). While I liked their enthusiasm and their willingness to work with me, I always told them the net salary at the interview. It isn't fair to find out your salary only after working for a month there.

I got hired as a supervisor on a contract when i was 22 years old, working for a large auto manufacturer. Yes I was not a permanent employee there, but I was still a supervisor. I found out that the temporary employees that I was supervising were making more than I was. The full-time hourly employees I understood - but the temporary ones? I left soon after I found that out

Why do you think that's helpful? Different people with the same job title make different salaries based on years of experience, years with the company, great reviews vs ok reviews. Thinking everyone should make the same is unrealistic, unless you want a pay cut so the Absolute Fool you work with can make more on the back of your work.

Salary is a right, so I've the right to discuss about... Who says that is rude is because they're not paying you enough...

Crazy, I read some where on a job interview website of the do’s and dont’s , and that was on there, as far as asking how much your salary will be, that is such BS

I'd like a gameshow type deal where a bunch of folks from different countries try the job applications from around the world.

What is this bullshit about baby boomers? At 64 I'm most definitely a baby boomer, and every job I've tried to get during the past thirty years has been a bloody nightmare of wading through all the garbage imposed by so-called "employment agencies", just like everyone forty years younger than me has to do now - and I can tell you that every single time I was talking to some know-nothing dipstick, fresh out school, whose interview process consisted of a checklist and zero knowledge of the actual job being promoted. Baby boomers didn't come up with this crap, because it all started with self-obsessed "yuppies" in the early 1990s, who all thought they were going to take the world by storm and be multi-millionaires by the time they were thirty. I've walked away from more job interviews than I care to think about, and I had a mortgage and a family to feed, because I refused to play that game.