=> 👽 tiff_the_valkyrie

Job seeking for tech positions right now actually kinda sucks

1 week ago · 👍 eph, chirale

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=> 👽 eph

I heard a podcast about that recently where they played an audio clip from a “how to game the H1B system in the US and get slave labor” training · 1 week ago

=> 👽 darkghost

I think it's pretty simple. There have been a ton of layoffs lately and companies are looking to fill positions for cheaper. My problem is I'm mega senior technical or group level management and everything I see is entry level. (Plus I'm trying to steal as many Danish jobs as I can 😈 @hansbrix) · 1 week ago

=> 👽 hanzbrix

@m0xee I'm sorry man, must be hell being trapped there with everything that is going on.

I think there is something weird going on with the job market here as well, so I am not even sure it would do you much good anymore. · 1 week ago

=> 👽 m0xee

@hanzbrix Yep, the market seems to be out of touch with reality.

In my case it's even worse: I was hoping to find a job to move out of Russia before the pandemic, but wasn't putting enough effort into it as I still had personal reasons to stay here, then COVID broke out, then the war, and now the market itself is botched 😱

And I don't think that I do not possess any valuable skills, it's just that for EU companies hiring me would involve extra hassle. I could probably just move on my own and obtain a work permit through some proxy company, but it's also troublesome considering where I'm coming from, I might seem suspicious 😩 · 1 week ago

=> 👽 hanzbrix

I just did a little lookieloo, our most popular IT job site, posts around 4000 jobs a year, current numbers. We have about 400k people unemployed. Yet a lot of those 4k IT jobs, do not get filled. · 1 week ago

=> 👽 hanzbrix

@darkghost You took our jeeerbs! 😂

I am holding off as well with the job change here.

The interesting bit is that there is an abundance of jobs, that nobody is taking or getting interviewed for or something. It must be severely mismatched when there is plenty of workforce and plenty of jobs, but nobody is getting hired. · 1 week ago

=> 👽 darkghost

Agree. My only prospect so far is in Copenhagen (thousands of miles away) and they ghosted me! · 1 week ago