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I have been recruiting for my team for two months now and the pool of active candidates out there is thinner than I have ever see in it in the last 30 years. These positions are typically highly desirable... white collar tech job at a A-list tech company doing cool cutting edge stuff with great pay and benefits... normally when I post a job like this I get flooded with resumes and i cherry pick the best candidates. This time I got a few resumes on the first few days and then... nothing. Literally no one is applying. What's going on? is everyone really content to cash stimulus and unemployment checks even though the salary range in question is way over those amounts? Is it really true that no one wants to work anymore? I had been recruiting in just Canada but now I have opened it up to a global search and I am still seeing shit for applications.

If this is what the labor market is like everywhere then the global economy is FUCKED.

I have been recruiting for my team for two months now and the pool of active candidates out there is thinner than I have ever see in it in the last 30 years. These positions are typically highly desirable... white collar tech job at a A-list tech company doing cool cutting edge stuff with great pay and benefits... normally when I post a job like this I get flooded with resumes and i cherry pick the best candidates. This time I got a few resumes on the first few days and then... nothing. Literally no one is applying. What's going on? is everyone really content to cash stimulus and unemployment checks even though the salary range in question is way over those amounts? Is it really true that no one wants to work anymore? I had been recruiting in just Canada but now I have opened it up to a global search and I am still seeing shit for applications. If this is what the labor market is like everywhere then the global economy is FUCKED.

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[–] [deleted] • 4 pts (edited )

As someone in tech I'm pretty comfortable with my current work. The pay isn't top tier but neither are the stress levels and the company is going to be one of the last things to collapse as we transition into depression and civil war. Short term benefits of switching into an unknown are not great enough to justify a switch. I've rejected multiple offers for 30-40k more than im making at my current employer. I have a feeling a lot of white collar workers are playing the game conservatively as we move into the kali-yuga.

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Might be a good time to float the idea of a raise. Though waiting for more inflation to hit is also a good idea.