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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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There was a guy at my company who was expected to relocate from Switzerland to Toronto. They are finding him very resistant to relocation. Nobody wants to live in Cucknada. Its too risky to relocate with so much uncertainty. What happens if he goes over there and they decide to close the borders down again?

You might want to advertise a work-from-anywhere position. Then you'll get some skilled workers operating out of their prepper bunkers who just need a bit of extra pay to top off their ammo supplies. The truth is that people are starting to live like there might not be a tomorrow.

The stock market has capped off. Yields are dropping precipitously. Delta variant becoming the focal point in the news. Something big is just around the bend and even the dumbest person knows it.