Qualified candidates struggle in a sluggish market due to Trump tariffs, AI screening and vanishing entry-level roles***
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Tuesday that the US added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated for the year to March 2025, highlighting already heightened concerns about the health of the labor market.
The news followed a lackluster August jobs report, with only 22,000 jobs added in the US. That report noted that 13,000 jobs were lost for the month of June 2025, the first negative jobs report survey since December 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, the highest rate since 2021.
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, was fired by Trump after a weak job’s report in July, which the president claimed, without evidence, was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
I don’t know how we all survived the Worst Economy Ever ™ of 2024, though…
The economy always suffers under Republican leadership. This is an undeniable fact supported by decades of data.
If Americans were intelligent enough to spend a few minutes looking up hard data, maybe we wouldn’t be losing our democracy right now.
“If Americans were smarter” is already a possibility that Republicans have anticipated and spent decades preventing. Now our stupid masses are incapable of discerning truth from blatant lies and used car salesman high pressure sales tactics.
We need obedient workers.
Only takes one fuckhead to ruin a generation
Ronnie Raygun has probably already ruined more than one generation.
I was talking about the advisor. Reagan is a whole other nightmare.
every time a bit worse. Did not collapse last time? We an push it down a bit deeper then.
The economy always suffers under Republican leadership.
You’ve got Democrats holding governments in a dozen big states. You would like to think New York and California and Massachusetts would be able to use their liberal governors to insulate themselves against bad because policy.
But - time and again - thru stand back, throw up their hands, and allow their big business patrons to eat the citizenry alive while insisting they’re impotent to act.
If we’re going to see a future FDR in this country, it’s going to have to be in a place like Illinois or Oregon, where the state has the resources to reform the local economy and protect people ahead of profits.
Otherwise, you just end up with an Obama '09 government, riding through loose monetary policy and letting a new Tech Bubble replace the old FIRE bubble. Or a Biden Admin that ignores the million people lost to COVID while insisting nobody has anything to complain about because the Stock Market was up.
Neoliberal governments give birth to reactionary economic waves. Until that ends, we’re going to keep getting more Republicans in the White House.
It’s true. It’s really, really bad. Linked in is (my estimate) about 50% jobs-that-don’t-exist-they’re-just-collecting-resumes-to-replace-the-current-people-with-lower-priced-ones and straight up scams (pro tip, always speak to a human on the phone at some point before giving any serious information.)
Secondly, you have to use a tool that matches your resume to the job posting and changes all the words to match the posting exactly. For example, if you have CI/CD as a skill and the job posting using CICD, you have to change your resume. Or sometimes they’ll spell it out so then you have to spell it out.
Which is such utter bullshit because you have to spend time adjusting your resume for every fucking job posting just to get past a fucking machine so hopefully a human sees it.
That doesn’t really affect me because I wouldn’t want those jobs anyways. If they are using AI to screen resumes, I straight up do not want to work there unless they are paying double the industry average, and they aren’t. I will take a few more weeks unemployed than bother with AI in ANY capacity.
That doesn’t really affect me because I wouldn’t want those jobs anyways.
True, until you’re unemployed and strapped for cash
Still don’t want those jobs. Now I just do crimes.
Its sorta funny because it should be the opposite. They should be actively looking through the publicly posted resumes who list as seeking work. You should not even need to apply as your resume is posted publicly on the site. It cracks me up that anyone has faith in ai when something like job seekers and available jobs are not easily tackled by it.
I don’t know of anyone with “faith” in AI. I know a lot of dumbass “leaders” who are forcing their unwilling teams to use it for - reasons.
maybe faith is the wrong word. There are just a lot of things that require a bunch of work and theoretically a savy digital system could do wonders but the fact it does not just shows it can’t really do much. You would think a bit of “prompt engineering” using linkedin information would quickly (within a day) be able to get down to a dozen very good candidates.
Well one thing it can’t do very well is parse pdfs. Bullet lists are also difficult. There’s just limitations to text prediction masquerading as intelligence of some sort.
Which is really sorta amazing. Parsing a more orderly kind of text.
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, was fired by Trump after a weak job’s report in July, which the president claimed, without evidence, was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
Literally Hitler.
At least he’s not having the people who disappoint hom shot yet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike
Sorry, folks. Wages got too high. Labor must be discipled.
But don’t worry, the Big Wall Street Number will continue to go up.
Disciplined?
Follow the 12… Crucify LinkedIn… more at labor Revelations…
If you had voted, maybe it would have been better.
Honestly can’t tell if this is a joke anymore
Well, when you admit to not voting it kinda sticks with you.
It’s funny, because I’m one of the reasons Mamdani is going to be the next Mayor of New York
Thank you for your service o7
Well, at least you finally came around to voting this time.
Yeah it turns out having a politician who actually believes in popular things motivates people to go vote for them
Good thing nothing bad happened because they sat out
Amanda Bradshaw, a 44-year-old creeler from Georgia, describes the job market as “like the dating scene only the recruiters are the ones swiping left”.
What a time to be alive.
TIL
“A creeler is a textile industry worker who operates and maintains “creels,” which are machines holding spools of yarn to be threaded into weaving, tufting, or warping machines. Their job involves ensuring a continuous supply of yarn by loading new spools, tying off broken ends, and performing general maintenance on the creel and associated machinery”
Sounds like a difficult industry to labor in as an American.
Businesses are looking for employees that require the least amount of training and are willing to accept the lowest wages with the worst working conditions.
Recruiters have pretty much resurrected the slave auction.
I’ve been out of work since mid-June. I can confirm. The situation sucks. I’ve been applying to everything I am remotely qualified for and tailoring my resume to each posting best I can,
Thus far, I have had 3 interviews with the company recruiter, 2 with a manager, and 1 onsite.
We should check to make sure there are no zeros tacked on at the end in Sharpie
9/11 thousand fewer jobs eh?
Spooky
