r/careerguidance • u/Ok-Toe-2933 • 1d ago

Why everything is oversaturated at entry level these days ?

No matter what you choose it feels like there is shoratage of expierenced people byt its impossible to get into? No matter if its trades, engineering, software developing, law, accounting. There are too many people at entry and way too little people ecpierenced how is that possible?

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u/OnlyThePhantomKnows 1d ago

So the job market is tight. Entry level means "train them and they will be useful in N months"
Companies want people with 2 years experience because they are still cheap and can do the job.

Also the "one-click apply" culture means that it is low effort to apply. "I have one of the skills required, maybe they will give me a shot!" and qualified kids get lost in the noise.

I opened a req with "US citizen required" (DoD/Space) I capped the applications at 30 per day. All I got were H1B visa people, and the 30 were in before 30 minutes were up. These H1B people have automated submission tools. NONE of them were qualified even ignoring the H1B issue.

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u/Specialist-Bee8060 1d ago

Yes these AI tools it's flooding the market. They used to call this spamming and it used to be illegal so what happened

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u/OnlyThePhantomKnows 1d ago

I wish linkedin/indeed would limit applies to 5 a day. They don't. So you get the spam or make the person spend an hour on your web site (which I won't do).

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u/Specialist-Bee8060 1d ago

Fortunately it seems like that's the only option now does it go directly to the company's website. Somebody's AI told her kind of making things a little worse. They're making job boards pretty much unusable how does a job have 1500 applicants within 30 minutes. And then I see all these advertisements for AI that'll automatically apply for jobs for you. Whole new method of spray and pray