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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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[–] • 3 pts (edited )

I'm not saying it's crappy, I'm saying there's no one that thinks the pay is worth whatever the job involves. There could be a million reasons why, but why doesn't really matter if the reasons aren't something you or your company can control. The only thing you can control is the pay and benefits. If you're not getting any applicants at the current pay, the only choices are to go without or to offer more pay and/or benefits.

$100 an hour in the Bay Area or West Los Angeles is ho-hum pay at best. $100 an hour in Arkansas is insane.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

my dad used to say "You can hustle for a nickel here down South or hustle for a quarter up North. "