„Keine einzige“: Auch nach 100 Bewerbungen findet ein 28-Jähriger immer noch keine Arbeit

Kids these days, just looking for the easy option

Move to rural alberta and hop on a rig. Make 120k ur first year and buy a 350k house the 2nd year

Only 100???? Sorry. No commitment demonstrated.

There’s always vacancies on concrete crews because it’s difficult work with a high turn over, but it’s how a lot of guys get their foot in the door and move onto better construction related jobs.

Another easy option is obtaining a DZ license, as company generally have a difficult time finding DZ drivers, to the point where a lot of outfits have started buying G-class ,1ton trucks with aluminum boxes.

Nothing glorious, but its work.

Buddy could get a job as a professional Oscar Isaac impersonator.

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Don’t be old and out of work either. I’m well past 100 applications, like I’ve got 20x more applications out than this guy 🤣

What’s up with all the posts saying 100 isnt enough then bragging that they had to apply even more than that?

Why are you defending even having to send 100?

Its dysfunctional.

Enjoy your gold medal at the suffering Olympics i guess?

3 months is honestly nothing

100 is nothing. When I was an international student in the US a decade ago I put in over 300 applications for 2 interviews and 1 job

100 applications in 90 days is actually not that great effort.

I vividly remember applying to 300-400 positions to get 3 interview calls and I was able to convert one. This was back in 2021 when market was rebounding after covid downturn. Even during booming market, conversion ratio was <1%

> For a couple of years, Mahmoudian worked as a home energy advisor — a self-contractor who says he used to put in 70-hour weeks

Okay, so you’re 28 with no meaningful work experience except a couple years of door-to-door sales? And now you’re looking for work in a field where you have no experience? do you have any employable skills? education?

There’s more to this story that CTV isn’t telling us.

It’s mind blowing how people with zero experience in construction expect contractors to take them on and hold their hand whilst paying them after having worked nothing other than desk jobs. You need to know someone who will vouch for you at the very least. I got my foot in the door at 22 through a friend and had to work as a labourer for a full year before I started to learn actual skills. Mixing concrete, loading and hauling wheelbarrows day in and day out.

For people like this guy his best bet would be to walk around looking for private job sites, hoping the foreman is nearby and asking for a job.

“My main goal is finding a contractor who is eager to teach me whatever skills I can gain,” he says. – So he has no real work experience or skills?

It’s dumb that the feds ended the greener homes initiative but all you Carney supporters that believe that he gives one f%ck about the environment- keep employing your mental gymnastics. Am totally aware that PP doesn’t either but at least he’s honest about it.

Unfortunately a lot of advertised „jobs“ are just requests to fill the employer database. There is no job… They just want a fresh list of applicants in case something does turn up.

Also you really have to know how to target resumes, as they may be computer (or AI) screened.

Numbers mean nothing if you don’t have a good resume/cover letter targeted at the specific position (if it even exists). If you submit 1000 bad applications, expect zero returns…

I’ll speak from my own experience as someone who hires regularly.

In my experience, about 98% of applications are very low effort, with little or no attempt to tailor the resume to the actual role being posted.

On top of that, many roles receive hundreds of applications from people who are not legally permitted to work in the country, and those applications are usually generic as well.

The result is that it becomes overwhelming trying to identify genuinely qualified candidates out of hundreds of applicants, even for six-figure positions.

My advice would be:

– Be focused in the roles you apply for.

– Apply to positions that align with your experience and education.

– If you are trying to pivot industries, your resume needs to clearly explain how your background transfers to the new role.

-Don’t rely only on online applications. The biggest impact usually comes from networking through school, professional associations, friends, family, and industry connections.

I’m mentioning this because what screens in people where I work (public service) is years of experience and explicit educational requirements and
professional designation. International education is equivalent to Canadian and it’s the regulatory board who does professional practice screening and it must be active (RN, MD).

The rest of detail in a resume doesn’t really matter. What counts is explicitly linking your years of experience to what’s required in the posting’s requirements.

I learned as a hiring manager, there are certain things for procedural fairness that are rules for screening, and one thing I think is dumb is that if a person puts their experience as the calendar year without including the month, it’s counted as one month.

So 2010-2011 is two months but if it’s Jan 2010 – Aug 2011 it’s 18 months. If it’s 2010-2012 it’s 14 months.

Also if two jobs run in parallel, you only count the time in one and both are considered part time.

We do manual screening but for AI screening, these similar prompts and criteria prob exist.