>>2469294>>2469613There’s this one job listing on the website of a specialised employment agency I’m signed up with that’s been online for almost 6 months now. It’s in my town, which is rare because most companies of this nature are in the next town over, and it’s something I am 100% qualified for and have several years of experience in. I applied but didn’t receive a confirmation email, and the website was acting up and appeared to have deleted my account so I registered a second time (with the same email address) a week later and applied again, then received two separate rejection emails several weeks apart claiming that I wasn’t qualified for this position. It’s still online six months later and pops up in every job search alert I have set up at least twice a week. I’ve asked around and nobody can figure out which company this could be, because there aren’t many institutions doing this particular kind of research in my town and the few that exist wouldn’t use a recruitment agency. I’m starting to feel like I’m being catfished, like this is the job searcher equivalent of those Hot Singles In Your Area adverts.
What really drives me up the wall is that so many people I know (who’ve been consistently employed for the last decade at least) are insisting that it should be totally easy to find a job and everyone’s hiring. Source: their ass, I’m guessing. One of these people let herself get memed into quitting her job and taking a year off for ‘self care’ and I’m so anxious on her behalf, because her job is in the kind of field that’s especially subject to budget cuts and layoffs. The job she had was relatively safe because she was so senior but now she’s thrown that away to play at being a housewife instead.