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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or, you know, you got laid off due to company “right sizing”…. So yeah, plenty of people are out of work without a job lined up.

[–] maythebananabewithyo 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I was working contract, contract ended abruptly and now I’ve been out of a job since September. Despite the amount of layoffs happening in tech, it seems a lot of other industries are holding on to people.

I think I read the stat that in 2022 LinkedIn had 1 job posted for 1 person searching, in 2023 they had 1 job posted for every 2 people searching according to their research team. Companies can be more selective with an over abundance of applicants, miss qualified ones with floods of resumes, or just straight fly “just in case” postings.

This has been the roughest few months of my life, and I’ve done a combat tour in Iraq.