re: Why is the job market so crappy right now?

They can’t find jobs because so many of the larger companies have been laying people off since Q1 of this year.

As a result, you have a more saturated talent pool of workers needing work.

On the flip side, everyone is tightening up their spending, both consumer and companies. This is resulting in less jobs.

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but it seems like tech companies have been over hiring for the past few years and the effects (downsizing, limited openings, or hiring freezes) are being felt now.

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I'd expand it to professional/B2B services organizations more broadly, from what I'm seeing and hearing.

There are an abundance of cyber jobs. Tell them to get a certification.

Ask Joe and Janet (Yellen)

I work in IT in Pittsburgh. I have applied to 2-3 thousand jobs over the last seven years that would be a step up from my Tier 2 Desktop Support. I got lots of interviews but no offers.

If your job can be outsourced for pennies, it will be.

Was hard for me to find a college educated, grass grower to move to Fort Lauderdale for 60k/yr, free apartment(2miles from the beach), cell phone, gas and lunch at work.

What kind of grass we talking about here?

Daughter graduated this Spring from one of the top tier SEC schools in electrical engineering. She and her classmates were well into double digits of resumes submitted before she got a job, some of her friends are still looking. 3.3 GPA, decent activities & volunteer work, won a performance award at the only internship she had.

Part of it was figuring out the applicant tracking system BS (Resume Worded for the win) but just as much was so many places are either not hiring despite postings or they only want people with 3-5 years experience for "entry level" (their term, not mine) positions.

Standard bullshite for the likes of Apple and Nvidia. Most DoD cleared type shite is max 2 interviews. Wife works as a recruiter, says this time of year is always rough....this year a little more so. But there is about to be a lot of DOD work opening up starting at the end of July.

Also in the non cleared space, there is a lot of competition from Indians H1B, green cards, etc. A lot of recruiting shops are Indian owned and they cater very much to people from the Sub Continent