Qualified candidates struggle in a sluggish market due to Trump tariffs, AI screening and vanishing entry-level roles***
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Tuesday that the US added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated for the year to March 2025, highlighting already heightened concerns about the health of the labor market.
The news followed a lackluster August jobs report, with only 22,000 jobs added in the US. That report noted that 13,000 jobs were lost for the month of June 2025, the first negative jobs report survey since December 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, the highest rate since 2021.
Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of labor statistics, was fired by Trump after a weak job’s report in July, which the president claimed, without evidence, was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
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Sorry, folks. Wages got too high. Labor must be discipled.
But don’t worry, the Big Wall Street Number will continue to go up.
Disciplined?
The economy always suffers under Republican leadership. This is an undeniable fact supported by decades of data.
If Americans were intelligent enough to spend a few minutes looking up hard data, maybe we wouldn’t be losing our democracy right now.
“If Americans were smarter” is already a possibility that Republicans have anticipated and spent decades preventing. Now our stupid masses are incapable of discerning truth from blatant lies and used car salesman high pressure sales tactics.
We need obedient workers.
Only takes one fuckhead to ruin a generation
Ronnie Raygun has probably already ruined more than one generation.
I was talking about the advisor. Reagan is a whole other nightmare.
The economy always suffers under Republican leadership.
You’ve got Democrats holding governments in a dozen big states. You would like to think New York and California and Massachusetts would be able to use their liberal governors to insulate themselves against bad because policy.
But - time and again - thru stand back, throw up their hands, and allow their big business patrons to eat the citizenry alive while insisting they’re impotent to act.
If we’re going to see a future FDR in this country, it’s going to have to be in a place like Illinois or Oregon, where the state has the resources to reform the local economy and protect people ahead of profits.
Otherwise, you just end up with an Obama '09 government, riding through loose monetary policy and letting a new Tech Bubble replace the old FIRE bubble. Or a Biden Admin that ignores the million people lost to COVID while insisting nobody has anything to complain about because the Stock Market was up.
Neoliberal governments give birth to reactionary economic waves. Until that ends, we’re going to keep getting more Republicans in the White House.
It’s true. It’s really, really bad. Linked in is (my estimate) about 50% jobs-that-don’t-exist-they’re-just-collecting-resumes-to-replace-the-current-people-with-lower-priced-ones and straight up scams (pro tip, always speak to a human on the phone at some point before giving any serious information.)
Secondly, you have to use a tool that matches your resume to the job posting and changes all the words to match the posting exactly. For example, if you have CI/CD as a skill and the job posting using CICD, you have to change your resume. Or sometimes they’ll spell it out so then you have to spell it out.
Which is such utter bullshit because you have to spend time adjusting your resume for every fucking job posting just to get past a fucking machine so hopefully a human sees it.
That doesn’t really affect me because I wouldn’t want those jobs anyways. If they are using AI to screen resumes, I straight up do not want to work there unless they are paying double the industry average, and they aren’t. I will take a few more weeks unemployed than bother with AI in ANY capacity.
That doesn’t really affect me because I wouldn’t want those jobs anyways.
True, until you’re unemployed and strapped for cash
Still don’t want those jobs. Now I just do crimes.
I’ve been out of work since mid-June. I can confirm. The situation sucks. I’ve been applying to everything I am remotely qualified for and tailoring my resume to each posting best I can,
Thus far, I have had 3 interviews with the company recruiter, 2 with a manager, and 1 onsite.
We should check to make sure there are no zeros tacked on at the end in Sharpie
I don’t know how we all survived the Worst Economy Ever ™ of 2024, though…
9/11 thousand fewer jobs eh?
Spooky
