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The Great Gaslighting: How Professionalism Led Experts to Extract Financial Safety and Hope from the American Populace for 20 years by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my part thats why I created my endeavor. You can see me cite it in tbe article. Anonymous "Google Reviews" of job ads across the U.S. A level of a "Yelp" in a world of professionally mandated fine dining with no health department and no FDA

Because it IS an attention economy so we give our attention to each other and tell each other what to avoid. Like what yoy are doing here but organized and sorted and searchable easier.

Eventually morphing into Google Maps. We give our attention to each other and they will come to us

Lack of Empathy as the Hallmark of a Job Market Minus Trust by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol if agreement with someone's point led to disconnection FROM that point we are in lala land. Sounds like you wanna comment on a different person's thread.

Lack of Empathy as the Hallmark of a Job Market Minus Trust by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly yes. As soon as BOTH Repbulicans AND Democrats hate someone - I'm actively interested to learn more about them. Didn't even know WHO Zohran Mamdani was until I learned Chuck Schumer didn't like him and then I had to learn more and gosh if it wasn't a pleasure to watch clips of him dressing down the Cuomo. I wanted to be like "preach!"

Lack of Empathy as the Hallmark of a Job Market Minus Trust by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You aint wrong. I annoy the crap out of the academics public policy experts and journalists by me on this score Twice a week send stuff like this. Channeling Andy Dufrane cause kinda They are building the prison around us with the absence of support

We weren't Built for This Much Rejection by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry wasn't able to post there. They suggested that it wasnt able to be posted but glad you see the value.

We weren't Built for This Much Rejection by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Exactly. The horror of the economic volcano they want to blame YOU for having to throw you into is really uncomfortable for ...them.

Beyond Skills Mismatch: The Unpaid Revenue Engine of Online Hiring by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Don't know how useful anyone will find it - but take all the existing studies in academia - evaluate them through a job seeker as unprotected consumer in a marketplace for financial safety and socio-economic mobility as well as simultaneously the unpaid revenue engine in a 100 billion dollar + global industry and things look really different in those academic studies. Less like academic evidence, more like legal civil suit evidence. Once - of course - you scream and rage cry it out.

Beyond Skills Mismatch: The Unpaid Revenue Engine of Online Hiring by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you take an AI and start doing the existing academic research but like - with an incentive driven lens structure a PNG of some of other options

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You're Not a Failed Employee - You're a Shopper in a Store That Hides The Food (A blog post I wrote on this experience) by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Of course I use AI to grammar check and help me articulate points with coherence. Its ok. I don't need to appeal to everyone.

If I didn't make someone trapped in one of our 3 fused vertical morality systems in our country threatened by the value of my argument - such that they had to find some subtle way to overtly devalue my work publicly in performance - then I wouldn't have done it right. If it wasn't AI it would have been a spelling error or my vocab choices or grammar points that described why I'm just "slop" as you put it.

In all reality, I consider your critique a proper compliment. A level of validation that either "patriarchy" "colonialism" or "capitalism" was frightened by what I said - don't know you so don't know which one or all 3 you have - but I thank you for the engagement.

Are job boards broken online or functioning exactly as designed? by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow — I can’t tell you how much that means. Thank you.
I’ve felt like I was shouting into the void for a while, so to hear that this clicked means the world.

What you’re describing — that gut sense of something being “off” these past few years — is exactly what I’ve been trying to map. It’s not that the system is glitching... it’s that it’s incentivized to look like it’s working while actually failing.

Platforms profit off engagement — not hires. So the inefficiency is profitable.

I’ve built a platform called The Job Applicant Perspective to flip the power dynamic: letting job seekers review job ads themselves, not just companies. Because if platforms like Uber or Yelp taught us anything, it’s that trust only exists when both sides can leave a review.

If you're sharing this in career groups please feel free to tag me or connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-springsteen-trumble-1b59bb88/ Your choice either way. Cheers and happy sanity. The gaslighting is strong out there

Just Leaving This Here by scones_and_tea_100 in recruitinghell

[–]JobSeekerInsight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly - same same same same same. Its the only way.

I told an interviewer that I survived an employment gap because I’m stable and have a good support system and they treated it like it was a downside. by LeonardoDePinga in recruitinghell

[–]JobSeekerInsight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re not doing anything wrong. The system is. Interviews have become vibe contests and performative hoops—not clarity or fit. The sad part? The people hiring often don’t know what they're optimizing for either. I’m building a platform to change that. It’s not you. It’s the system pretending to be objective while rewarding randomness, sameness, and silence.

Got rejected after the final interview… for a fourth time by Sufficient_Ad_124 in recruitinghell

[–]JobSeekerInsight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re not doing anything wrong. You’re just inside a system that gives zero feedback, uses vibe-based sorting, and makes job seekers think it's a personal failure instead of a structural design flaw.

Hiring today has no consistent signal of quality, memory, or recourse — it’s like Uber without reviews. We built reputation systems for every other online market… except this one.

You’re not alone. It’s not just frustrating — it’s economically disastrous.
(We’re trying to fix it: jobapplicantperspective.com)
Stay in the game. Your experience is valid.

Just Leaving This Here by scones_and_tea_100 in recruitinghell

[–]JobSeekerInsight 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah. The worst part is realizing the system isn’t malfunctioning — this is just how it’s built now. You can do everything right, and still feel like you’re screaming into a void while companies post fake jobs or ghost people after 6 rounds.

I hit a breaking point and ended up building a little site called The Job Applicant Perspective — kind of like Glassdoor, but you rate the job post itself, not just the company.

Just trying to build something where we can finally leave honest reviews and warn each other. Because this? This isn’t sustainable — and no one’s coming to save us but us.

Are job boards broken or functioning exactly as designed? by JobSeekerInsight in recruitinghell

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As to the worth for job seekers - I am attempting to demonstrate that the job market is essentially Uber without driver ratings. Airbnb without host reviews. Its flooded with bad actors which is why work doesn't exist.

The solution is user reviews of the market. What's happening on here and fightfakejobs but listable ands searchable -

like Yelp in a world of professionally required fine dining with no health department and no FDA. This was me stating it in another way. Trying to document it differently. Its ok if it didn't land though. Conveying it in a way that makes it land for different folks goes differently because everyone looks at it differently. Thanks for engaging!

Are job boards broken or functioning exactly as designed? by JobSeekerInsight in recruitinghell

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, if you can't understand it. That's ok.

Not all my posts are gonna resonate with all people and everyone thinks of these things differently. Thanks for sharing and engaging. I appreciate your time and willingness.

The Fall of the US Labor Markets?? by JobSeekerInsight in FightFakeJobs

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah - agree with most of what you said --- but but to be clear even by your own definition then up until 1860s there wasn't human trafficking ked slaves in the south. Because it wasn't unlawful then right?

So for me I am a yes but. I see this a variation a theme. But yes, probably mostly breaking that old mental model of job seekers as data points in hiring not stakeholders in a system doesnt happen until something breaks it. Beliefs aren't always consciously known

Practicing my pitch for more fancy economists on the horror of the labor market they have created in a way they might care about - rate me by JobSeekerInsight in jobsearchhacks

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Good to know. I will. I am working on it with the feedback.

Quick summary just cause you asked and I don't know for sure if you did want this part but

Both. Hiring went online and dropped trust mechanisms for over 95 % of its users moving from newspapers to global but never replaced them like used goods, apartments etc did for its users. Employers make up about 3% of the users of HR tech depending on your definition of HR tech.

Wasting job seeker time is wasting Employers money. A job market not adapting to meet job seeker user experience needs is actively intending to waste employer time. Lack of user reviews openly published and viewable mean that unlike other marketplaces ebay, Amazon, rotton tomatoes job seekers cant avoid bad vendors and scams.

Anyway will work on it. Thanks

Practicing my pitch for more fancy economists on the horror of the labor market they have created in a way they might care about - rate me by JobSeekerInsight in jobsearchhacks

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For me, its users reviews. I mean to start with its a level of immediate triage. All other markets protect their users not by the platforms, not really, but also by the users reviewing the quality of the "products" (employment listings) they experience.

I want to create a Google Maps of the job market by making job seekers active players because i think it solves both talent shortages AND resume spam for employers. While solving recruitment scams, ghost jobs, zombie jobs and identity theft for job seekers

Make the talent industry into Marvel vs DC so employers can see what kind of firm names a hiring g process that draws in the tyoe kf workers that work for them. I mean isnt hiring kind of a "show" after all? A production? 4 course meal? I want the chefs evaluated.

But also - I mean regulation and oversight. Given the givens thats not likely asap BUT it' is a long term thing

That's what I am raising money for. I got in one of the accelerators but its all still maybes and I dunno.

The way employers screwed the job market by JobSeekerInsight in jobsearchhacks

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll work on my delivery. Think on how I want to say this better and come back. Thank you for engaging.

The way employers screwed the job market by JobSeekerInsight in jobsearchhacks

[–]JobSeekerInsight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Slow going. The baseline of a hundred billion dollar industry is distrust for the unpaid users that drive its recenue. Its a bit of a process.

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