The most annoying email to receive in the planet (for the unemployed)
this post from my friend literally made me see red with how fucking common this shit is. fun fact: this is literally the same email I get from Brazilian companies, it’s directly translated from that.
Honestly at least you are getting a response
Yeah, I very much prefer the standard denied email than... thumbleweed
I love getting the emails 1 year after I applied. I'm still getting emails from positions I applied to several years ago
Ah yes the old “the system can only run a job listing for 1 year so we’re reposting the (fake) role” runaround.
The worst I've personally had was from Nintendo 3.5 years after the fact
Curious, how would you make it less annoying?
"You're hired! How is 500k with great benefits and loose schedules? Honestly just do whatever you want!"
Not requiring a job to be able to live since there's not enough to go around for everyone.
More personalized, and throw an "unfortunately" in there so you can tell from first skim that you got passed on
I applied to a job I'm super qualified for, received that email from them, then got an email from them saying new job posting I should apply for, same job, reposted. Applied again. Happened again. Applied third time:have interview in an hour.
Bon chance!
How'd it go?
Got through the HR interview, on to the technical one soon! Thanks for asking!
I'm done with the bs game of looking for employment. I'm self employed now
What do you do? How did you get started?
I have a knack for repairing tech, so I put out advertisements - newspaper, store noticeboards, town hall - with an email and a promise to charge far less than out-of-warranty shops. I work locally and get quite a few folk who message me, from those who have simple problems but no tech-savvy family, to those who commission prebuilt PCs, or ask me to research and find quality products in the sea of trash because they just don't have hours or days to research for themselves.
The HMRC gets a Self Assessment tax return once every April, I claim rebates, and regularly help local stores with donations to fund, sell or recycle.
It's the best way I've found to work on my terms: with as little interference from governments as possible; not profiting from corporations or conglomerates hellbent on servitude, profit and extortion of the poor, neglecting employees or destroying environments*; and earning enough to afford breaks and occasionally give advice ehe
This is why I don't work with or use the Job Centre or its affililates, Meta, Amazon, or Google.
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I'm hiring right now, and we can't get anywhere. We're just flooded with thousands of fake, ai generated candidates we can hardly sift through the noise.
What do you think would help differentiate a real candidate from slop noise? Calling, coming in person?
Many can be weeded out by looking into it a bit. Many by following up and it's literally not a real person. The phone number they give for an interview is a voip number is a big hint we've found.
Some will have a real person show up to the interview, but it's not the person from the application.
Folks are using AI to just submit hundreds of different applications to each opening with generated personas and fielding any callback. Many of them seem to be in another countries.
The noise is so bad we're removing the post and switching to only personal recommendations or recruiter leads. It's wild right now. AI has ruined everything?
I am in this picture (bcc) and I don't like it.
You'll never get rich digging another man's ditch.
The job application system is a con to grind the hopes of fresh meat into dust. Much easier to control someone who's been told they're utterly insignificant.
My advice is:
Find the boat Truman (it might not look like a boat in your particular iteration). Sail it (or drive, fly, gallop, swim) until you hit the edge of their simulation. climb up the steps, open the little door and go and make your own reality.
Erm... (cough)
Start a business...... I'm saying start your own business is what I'm saying.
Don't over-complicate it. Just start.
You're welcome.
Oh and also don't believe anyone, about anything. Everyone's got an angle.
Good luck 🙂
Start a business...... I'm saying start your own business is what I'm saying.
That's thinking too big, too fast.
Don't over-complicate it. Just start.
You don't need loads of capital to get rolling. There's a kid and his sister that walk the neighborhood knocking doors and mowing lawns. They seem to be doing well and the boy is especially persistent. Too broke, but I paid him one time just because I was impressed with his gumption.
My wife makes a couple of hundred a week picking up crap on the side of the road and shopping FB Marketplace. Sells it at the flea market most Sundays. She hardly works at that at all.
So what does that look like to someone who has no knowledge of how to do that?
No, I’m serious. I’ve always wanted to do this, but I seriously don’t know how.
I’m middle aged and taking classes at the junior college on how to be a farmer. I know this won’t work everywhere, as the place I live is extremely willing to support small, sustainable/ regenerative local farms.
But there is probably info to be had at your local JC about what ever businesses would do well in your area. Or even just business classes. They’re about $300 per class, and scholarships abound.
There are one year certificate programs that are more manageable than a degree.
Man, it took me a long time of trying lots of different things until I found the thing that worked for me. I guess looking at it now, the turning point was when I understood what makes me tick finally. So in answer to the question about what starting your own business looks like, it depends on what vibes with you the most. You want to try and have an equal balance of doing what you're good at, what the world needs, what you love and what you can get paid for. The rest is paperwork.
I don't know how it works in your part of the world but here in the UK you can just decide that you're a "sole trader" to begin with. You don't need to make a company and you only need book-keeping rather than corporate accounting which is cheaper and simpler. I guess a good first move might be to go visit a business networking group. I'd avoid BNI if I were you and go check out one of the many groups created by people who escaped BNI groups (not kidding). They'll give you a TON of free advice and you'll start building some good relationships. Don't try to grow in a vacuum by going solo. You'll likely get lonely, sad and overwhelmed.
I meant that thing earlier about not believing anyone. There are so many people with "in your face" grindset mindset BS advice who'll try to sell you on the idea that you've got everything wrong and you need to do it their way. Ignore them. They're either trying to make a buck out of you or desperate for validation.
Also don't create unnecessary hassles for yourself. There are loads of things you don't need when you start off, but it'll be tempting to want to put money down because it will feel like you're "taking control". Only invest in stuff you'll need immediately to make stuff work for you.
As for the type of business itself it doesn't have to be super qualified at anything. A lot of businesses amount to doing stuff for people that they just don't want to do themselves because it's scary or a hassle. You don't have to invent anything. Just find a metaphorical bucket someone is tired of trying to carry and get good at carrying it for them. That's basically all it is. I'll do X so you don't have to and I'll do it better cos it's all I do.
Last and most important bit of advice that literally took me 30 years to figure out. Make every service you provide a monthly subscription. One off jobs SUCK cos, Like Sisyphus, you're going to have to keep rolling that boulder up the damn hill, over and over, finding endless new clients. You'll also have to chase payments over and over which isn't good for your blood pressure.
Make everything a monthly subscription to 25-50 people you've nurtured good relationships with. If you set it up right you'll get paid before you do the job, never have to chase slow payers and easily pay your bills and put food on the table without a boss above you, grinding you down.
Do that for a couple of years and that will teach you what you need to know for the next step.
Hope that helps.
So what's your angle then?
I'm saying, at the end of the day, make your own mind up about things. Don't blindly follow anyone's advice. People are constantly trying to tell you which way is up and 80% of the time it's matrix style horseshit.
I was hard up in the 90s, couldn't land a job, refused to work in food again. Had a newspaper route so I posted flyers in the trailer parks I visited. "Yard mowed $10" Got loads of responses.
All I had was an old passenger car and a borrowed lawn mower. Didn't even have a phone number, had to give them mom's and check in on payphones. First day a lady asked if I could edge. Mom: "You don't have an edger." "Tell her I can do it, I'll have one after I get paid on this job."
Got tons of referrals after I started rolling. Could have turned it into a serious business if I hadn't been whiskey drunk that whole decade.
My wife's ex-husband is the biggest lumber customer at the local Lowe's. He started a fence company a couple of years ago, doing the work himself and her helping, at 71. He's quite well off now.
Wife wants to start a child care in the Philippines. She's got a bachelor's in early childhood education and was already successful the first time around. We're talking about running it from America. She thinks a couple of thousand will easily get it off the ground.
Point being, there's so much opportunity out there.
Don't over-complicate it. Just start.
The cherry on top is when you see the same company re-post the same job opening a few days later