Why Entry-Level Job Requirements Feel Absurd

1. WELP…Cant blame Affirmative Action anymore!! 😅😂🤣

2. Graduated with a four year degree two years ago and now I’m doing an unpaid internship. My coworkers and supervisor are amazing and I know they want only the best for me. They wish that they could pay me but they can’t because of bureaucracy (state government internship).

3. That's because they're trying to combine positions that shouldn't be combined. Not only this, but they have an algorithm that they go off of for applicants. If they don't meet their general criteria, which can often be bigoted, you're not even called. Your application is filed into the "do not hire list". This isn't new. This started a long time ago. Even if you have the experience, they'll teach you the way they want it so your experience isn't worth a thing. It's a total catch-22.

4. They feel like it because they are

5. They conveniently left out nepotism,

6. It's going crazy. I want the old America back

7. So true, job listings are for all-rounders at the moment

8. It's not what you know, it's who you know. That's been true since the start of time. We just hide it better. I got my first post PhD job by meeting my future sponsor at a conference. You have to network for any reasonable job these days or try to win the lottery by competing against 50 other similarly qualified candidates.

   It's unfair, but that's how employers are choosing candidates these days.

9. Looks like D.E.I. hiring isnt working. Diversity clearly isn't our strength. Who would have thought that merit based hiring would actually be the best way to go…

10. The woman at 7:33 completely missed the point. Companies promoted from within , which meant that the employee had already been there awhile & proved themselves. An employee that has only been at the company for two months is not how companies promoted from within. 🙄

11. Most people with a job doesnt even go thru a normal ridiculous hiring process. They just have a job because they know someone.

12. this… really takes me back to my first time finding a job,
    I completely understand, its just the way it is and maybe it needs to change
    but then its hard to convince people to hire you with no work experience, i get it
    prepare for interviews, get relevant knowledge (even if it means suffering a bit to get that knowledge), be geuine and in the end people do seem to care

13. Most job postings are fake in that they have no intention to fill the position. Interviewing for positions shows company growth and economic gealth. Also, if a job can't be filled by meeting requirements, they have an excuse to hire on visa for cheap. Our economy is garbage.

14. As someone who is currently job searching, it’s frustrating, I have a bachelors, multiple internships under my belt and I still get looked over even for the most basic of jobs

15. The hiring process and job requirements are beyond a joke anymore. Doesnt work. Our country is so stupid !!

16. Must have 5 years an an entry level ________.

17. everything always falls on the working class. corporations never have to change a thing about their ridiculous decisions

18. I've seen entry-level jobs or even internships that say they don't really require experience but asks you how to use some software that you don't learn in school but only when working with a company 😑 it is so irritating

19. It's over

20. Computer Science Major with a Minor in Mathematics here. Don’t fall for it people! Go to college and get a USEFUL degree. They want you to skip college so they can pay you peanuts but still make record profits.

21. 12:55 What kind of J was that? It looks more like a ラ.

22. “You need skills for this entry level position”…. How can you get skills and experience if you can’t get skills and experience?

23. AND NO ONE TRAINS ANYMORE.

24. That's why people have to lie nowadays to get a job. Even with a college degree (I recommend going to a trade school at this point), I couldn't get an "entry" level job, until I realized everyone else was lying about their skills and experience.

25. Colleges teach a lot of theory, not always the skills explorers want, especially in the corporate world. Often times getting those small amount of internships depend more on who you know versus what you know, how smart you are, or your work ethic. I studied math and economics in college and got a M.S. in Math, but never got an internship. I had no real experience so nobody wanted me and ended up becoming a day trader. Never had what some would consider a "real job" in my life despite applying for many. I'm glad it worked out the way it did for me, but obviously the economy needs people doing more productive things than exploiting stock market inefficiencies.

26. Why go to college then? We need training schools, no more expensive business run colleges.

    For example just have training schools for programming and forget about all the miscellaneous classes you need to take in colleges. We need experience not random information

    We need apprenticeships too, how is this country going to succeed if none of us are being trained to do a specialized job we want. They are hiring outside of this country because other countries do train for specialized skills/jobs

27. Causeeeee they DO. Employers, why you wanna play things this way!? If youre so freakin desperate to fill positions — why you gotta narrow it to like the top 1%-3%??? And leave everyone average completely outta the loop?? We need jobs too, whether we nail it every freakin time, or not

28. “Don’t be afraid to do work for free.” Confederate south.

29. Yapping. Skills are transferable, and college is relevant. Most jobs skills aren't a 1 to 1, especially in white collar.

30. To my fellow brothers and sisters who are in the technology/Computer-Science field, YOU can learn the skills you need online, a lot of the times for free. You just have to be willing to learn. Learn new skills. Put on resume. Get a job. I talk from personal experience. You can do it 💪

31. Imagine saying all that crap about skills-based hiring, and seeing that skills-based means having atleast 5 yrs of experience with that skill. You should be born 30 yrs old for that sort of 'hiring' 😂😂😂
    And that 'skill' takes a maximum of only 2 months to develop.

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