I mean… online job applications have been a shitshow for over a decade, with many of the same problems of online dating apps (from an average male perspective).

The jobs you are applying to already have 100 other applicants.

The job requirements are very, very often faaar beyond what is necessary to do the job.

The job descriptions are also often absurd, written by HR people who have little to no idea what they’re trying to describe, and usually your responsibilities will just expand ad hoc, at any time. Hell in most states you don’t even have to list an actual wage, just a range, which you will almost always be lowballed on.

The applications very rarely follow a common format where one can upload a resume and just submit it, no, there’s always some percentage of time consuming manual input required.

No response from employers is completely normal, and so is being strung along for weeks or months before they lose interest with no explanation why.

Oh and some of the job postings are already filled, might have an opening at a later undetermined date, but they don’t indicate that at all.

… These all have rather direct analogues to what an average guy’s experience of using a dating app is.

The primary difference is that employers have been using more rudimentary AIs / algorithms to analyze the submitted applications for around a decade as well.

I remember seeing in like 2018 or so that the average resume gets 2.7 seconds of viewing time by an HR person, and that’s after some kind of software screening.

This is basically just fighting bots with bots. Nothing is reasonable or sincere, hasn’t been for a long time.

This is just the next logical step in an escalating arms race.

Why not just do the scattershot approach when your chance of getting any one particular result is vanishingly small?