It's no secret that getting a new job is hard, with candidates constantly complaining about the endless hoops that recruiters are making them jump through to prove they're the perfect match, from endless rounds of interviews to 90-minute tests and presentations. But for young people in particular, the challenge is even steeper. About a fifth of Gen Zers worldwide are classified as " NEETs" and are currently locked out of the job market.
Do you think we're in an AI Bubble? Even the experts who've predicted past crashes can't seem to agree. "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini—who predicted the mid-2000s housing crash that Wall Street dismissed—and isn't convinced we're heading for catastrophe. Yet, the analyst who called the dotcom bubble has warned it will all "end in tears." And then there's the "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, who is going as far as betting $1 billion on the AI bubble bursting.
"When I started seeing that it's your only option [to apply]... Like, the callout is to post yourself online and tag them. That was wild to me," she said. "It's almost like it saves them having to go through resumes, cover letters and emails, because all they have to do is find the five most viral videos and interview those people."
Before committing to working at his Greenville, North Carolina production studio, MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, starts some workers on roughly three-month contracts. During that trial period, internally called a vibe check, the company gives staffers an apartment and a rental car so they can focus on work without worrying about relocation. The objective is to "ensure you don't uproot your entire life and move to Greenville, North Carolina, and not work out," a former MrBeast staffer said.
You've spent hours updating your résumé, nailed the interview phase and thought the offer was locked in. Then the silence hits. Here's the thing - the reason may have nothing to do with your skill set - and everything to do with your social media. Employers are no longer just glancing at applications; they're dissecting digital lives. According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers screen candidates' social media before hiring, and more than half have rejected applicants based on what they found.
Employers are entitled to base recruitment decisions on whether a prospective colleague might damage office harmony by not supporting the same team, the employment judge Daniel Wright said. He ruled that a boss would not be breaking employment law, for example, if they rejected a job application from an avid Tottenham Hotspur supporter because the office was full of Arsenal fans. The comments came in the case of a woman who took legal action after she lost out on a job with a marketing agency because she didn't vibe with her interviewer.
For all of them, in the last 15-to-20 minutes, I give them an opportunity to ask questions-and if they don't have any, I think that's a pretty significant mark against them being curious about what they're interviewing, the company, the way we might work together, chemistry, culture, all of those things. That's a pretty big red flag.
"Deepfake candidates are infiltrating the job market at a crazy, unprecedented rate," said Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of voice authentication startup Pindrop Security, who said he recently caught a deepfake job candidate.
Many examples across sectors and across history show that throwing boatloads of money to poach top talent is never enough. From sports to academia, the road to decline is littered with cautionary tales of misplaced confidence on talent success.
I really optimize for everyone that I support and everyone I hire, which is in six months, if I'm telling you what to do, I've hired the wrong person.
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"The interviews were pretty strange," Qureshi said on the podcast. "You'd be chatting about philosophy for an hour and a half and it would very much just be like he would pick a topic out of thin air."
