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I'm freaking losing it - how do you find work? (hexbear.net)

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Got a string of rejections for my applications on Indeed.

I live in the US and I haven't landed an interview since last year.

I'm working on my resume now, but if there are any tips on where to look, or services that might help connect me with work, I'm all ears.

I've got a graduate education and I'm considering omitting that information as I apply to entry level positions. What kind of sick joke is it that someone can be overqualified for a job?

Also if you want to commiserate and say work sucks in different ways, that's cool too.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've gotten jobs by contacting recruiters directly on Linkdin, and through the website USAJobs.gov. USAJobs, being an official job board run by the government, avoids a lot of bullshit like fake postings and AI application review that plague other job websites, although the pool of applicants is still massive so you'll still face a lot of rejection I will say I seemed to get a higher proportion of in-person interviews from this site than others.

As for linkdin... I guess it's about luck as much as it is anything else. My last job came from there after I spent an assload of time applying to everything remotely related to my industry.

The whole system sucks and I hate it, but now that I've done gig work for a month I'm back on the job search grind cuz that system is somehow even worse.