For the past couple months I've been in the market to get a new job. I recently found out in the last 6 years I've been employed I've gone from lowest paid employee to promoted lowest paid employee despite having 3 new co-workers. I work in a creative field which is already notorious for getting garbage roles and pay, which likely happens in plenty of other fields too but it's easy to see when this is the only field I know.
A common thing in job listings I see typically ask for a wide range of responsibilities, and it's getting disheartening to even stay in this industry. Some of these listings are asking for a whole production house of tasks: videography, scripting, editing, graphic design, audio engineering, marketing, budgeting and who knows what else. I'm all for a little cross-training on roles but to ask for such an extensive list of knowledge up front is painful.
I recently got rejected for a position after 2 interviews because during the second one they told me I needed to have a graphic design portfolio with advertising examples despite the role being listed for “Digital Video” and never mentioning that requirement at all initially.
Just needed to rant a little bit, but I'm also a little curious if this happens to any other field.