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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

302 points · 364 comments · rubatrejo

dvt · 1790183993 · focus · HN ↗
As someone that's currently looking (with plenty of experience, corporate, startup, and contract), can confirm it's pretty rough out there. I think the application process is just becoming enshittified: because HR uses AI to filter, applicants are starting to use AI to apply, so we have volumes and volumes of nonsense flowing back and forth.
Been working professionally for ~15 years or so, and it's never been this bad. Other than "knowing someone" (i.e. a referral, and even that falls through routinely), not sure what the best way to snag a position is these days.
1. [deleted] · 1790184467 · focus · HN ↗
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2. nabbed · 1790185653 · focus · HN ↗
  I just read this on CNBC:
  “US business continues to boom,” S&P Global Market Intelligence chief business economist Chris Williamson said in a statement. “To put the growth surge in context, barring the spike in demand following the opening up of the economy after the COVID-19 lockdowns, the latest improvement in business activity is the greatest recorded since early 2015. Business is clearly booming now in both manufacturing and services.”
  From <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/treasury-yields-oil-inflation-fed.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/treasury-yields-oil-inflatio...
  Is it booming for everyone except software developers? I keep hearing about developers who have been looking for a job for 6 months or longer and don't get responses to applications.
  Or is it some process failure (which you hint at) that is making it difficult to capitalize on that boom?
  1. pixl97 · 1790186909 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobless_recovery" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobless_recovery
    Business doing good doesn't automatically mean populations of humans are doing good themselves.
  2. ndiddy · 1790188620 · focus · HN ↗
    Most job growth for the past several years has been in the healthcare, leisure and hospitality, and construction sectors. Removing these sectors makes job growth negative for 2024 and 2025, and wipes out the majority of job growth in 2026. See <a href="https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/economy/spotlight/private-sector-job-growth.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/economy/spotl...
  3. bonesss · 1790190687 · focus · HN ↗
    Speculation, but: if tech over hired during COVID our section of the market could be experiencing a corrective slowdown while others are booming in aggregate.
  4. xboxnolifes · 1790192190 · focus · HN ↗
    The article is talking about "The Economy" (read: stocks and bonds), not employment numbers. The market can both be awful for job seekers and great for capital owners.

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