If someone tries to tell me it's an employee's market again I'm going to imagine them sitting at home, scratching their head like an ape, eating cheese puffs in combat boots. This is not the state of things. Maybe in some industries, but as a whole, I don't believe it.
I was comparing notes with a colleague. We discovered in our industry about 70% of all the “employers” out there hiring or fishing with hiring ads do NOT respond at all to applicants after the application has been submitted. Not an email. Not a text. Nothing. And when you call, they get so triggered they are like “REEEEEE don't call here REEEEEEE REEEEE wear your mask on a zoom call reeeereeee”.
This number would be closer to 76% if the applicant does nothing to follow up. I don't even know what to compare this to in business. It's just plain sketchy. Even the bank has to mail you something in 30 days when you apply for something. These companies should at least pay the price of one stamp or one minute of electricity and email used to respond to applicants.
I spoke to a recruiter who corroborated that employers are ASKING PEOPLE TO WORK FOR LESS THAN LIVABLE WAGES. The recruiter even sounds disappointed at the state of things. Seeing that her job is tied to making money off employers actually hiring.
The current state of job applying in the year 2022 is shady. It's sketchier than the glory hole in Second Life online game. It needs to be reformed. And at times feels like you are giving over all your personal details, life history, and work, only to receive a scratcher ticket with no numbers.
Now, these employers are supposedly taking so many steps to be “fair” and show “racial equality” and blah blah blah. Yet we fork over to them all our information, address, race, sex, gender, vaccine status, personal custom essays, rounds of interviews, yet 70%+ of them do absolutely nothing even to confirm that they are receiving the applications and receiving the applicant's inquiries.
There is absolutely no law that I see in place or confirmation of this occurring that all our data, information, gender/sex/race information is going into a secure file vault and being protected. And not be accessed by someone in their company with a felon on their record or someone doing nefarious things.
Does anyone else feel frustrated by this? Is it legal to get personal data and not respond back?