I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took

Post by ar_lan » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 5:12 AM UTC

timmaxw wrote: post #199

ar_lan wrote: post #106

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> What if there was some way to limit job seekers to e.g. 10 job applications per month, industrywide? Feels like that could cut down the noise and allow employers to consider each individual applicant more carefully. Beyond the actual difficulty in doing this without a completely centralized hiring process, this feels incredibly immoral. People have families to feed.

> People have families to feed. People would submit fewer applications, but each individual application would have a higher chance of success, because everyone else would _also_ be submitting fewer applications. The number of job openings is the same either way, so the same number of people get hired in the end, right?

Post by sambazi » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 6:20 AM UTC

CapstanRoller wrote: post #178

amDonezo wrote: post #39

Yeh; am done with “professional careers”. De-urbanizing and moving to a more rural location. Will get a job at a grocery store to avoid all the future dead people in office jobs whose toxic positivity psychosis is leading them to believe they’re leaving behind the most important outputs for the future. Such jobs are not meaningful. They’re just a form of social organization, like religion before us. Signal attenuatio…

Must be nice to have enough money to simply buy a house.

Post by rdedev » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 6:27 AM UTC

datavirtue wrote: post #135

rdedev wrote: post #58

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Workday is weird. It's a chore to apply but things like simplify jobs browser addon makes ituch better. That being said I have more luck getting a response from a workday application than greenhouse or lever. Maybe the harder pathway discourages spam applications

I've gone through several workday apps in the last few days and found them all to be easy.

Post by bizzyzib » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 10:45 AM UTC

ambicapter wrote: post #5

Two and a half minutes to apply to a job doesn't seem like a lot of time at all. Do people really think that's too much time?

Post by CapstanRoller » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 2:05 PM UTC

sambazi wrote: post #203

CapstanRoller wrote: post #178

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Must be nice to have enough money to simply buy a house.

tbf the dynamic range here is pretty big. there are usually old/unmaintained houses on the edge of nowhere to buy for less than a years rent of a flat in downtown.