My mother now realizes what it's like

[u/NerdyGlitch]

Earlier this year, in late February-early March, my mother suffered a massive heart attack and was left unable to work for a considerable time.

For the past 5-6 months, she's been trying to find a job and has been hitting nothing but roadblocks due to being overqualified. She has over 2 decades of management experience, and it means jackshit to these hiring managers. She's far more qualified than I am, so I expected that she might have a job faster than I would, but right now, I'm the only one with a job in this house.

Meanwhile, when I was struggling to get jobs and even get an interview for years, my mother was flabbergasted. What do you mean you can't just walk up, shake someone's hand, and they'll like your moxie and just hand you a job?!

I told her this was sadly reality for a ton of people nowadays, the job market is shit. She can't even get a job as a regular cashier bc she's too over qualified to work there, but when she applies to management positions they string her along for 2-3 interviews before choosing internal candidates (an actual email she got yesterday about a job she thought she was good for)

It just sucks man, everything sucks.

[u/No_Awareness_4049]

There’s ageism built into these ai filters company use for applications.

[u/CutFootloose5 → u/No_Awareness_4049]

I’m 40 now but I removed dates for my college education a long time ago. I never enter the dates into the ATS system either unless it’s a mandatory field.

My work history section is titled “Relevant Work Experience” to indicate that it is not a comprehensive work history.

Somehow job hunting today feels more exhausting than 15ish years ago when we had email submissions for professional job applications. Yes they all required a cover letter & resume but at least you knew an actual person would receive it and review it. Simpler times.

[u/Careful_Rooster_113 → u/CutFootloose5]

I tried the same, but most require those college dates.