Anyone else struggling to find work and having to apply for entry level jobs they are over qualified for?

[comeandhaveteawithme]

God I am so depressed.

I find myself in desperate need of a job. I've applied for so many that I am qualified for and have experience in but I keep being rejected. Half the time I don't even get an interview, but I have also been to so many interviews and not got the job.

Apparently there are just so many people applying these days. It never used to be as hard as this when I last found myself out of work, which was a couple of years before covid.

I am now having to widen my search and apply for shitty, entry level jobs that I haven't done in 15 years (I don't say what this job is as I don't want to insult anyone) and even those are hard to find and I am unlikely to get them due to being over qualified.

And it's so depressing at nearly 40 years old to be facing the prospect of going back to doing back breaking and low reward work that I thought I had left behind when I was 23.

I'm not sure what the point in this post is, I just wanted a moan and to see if anyone else is in the same boat.

yep and this is me at 55. So depressed. 😭Being bossed around by 25 year olds who treat me like shit. 🤣

It's tough out there. I have 3 admin office staff on my team doing fairly basic stuff - phone,emails,database records- and all 3 are graduates. One with a first from.top university working on his PhD in his spare time. All massively over qualified.

YANBU at all. It’s a terrible market.
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Yeah I was laid off but I was determined to get a job any job! I got a pay rise with the new job but must admit I feel I’ve taken a role which is too easy and I’m really bored! So I keep thinking should I apply for another one that challenges me or be grateful I got something even though it feels like I’ve got down the ladder instead of up. I’m concerned if I start looking people will wonder while only 3 months in the job! In last job I was head of dept and it was really busy but I knew all that was going on in the business I was in. In this job I’ve been contracted out to another company and they keep the good stuff for the full timers and I get the dross! It depends what you want - financial security or wait it out till the ideal job comes around!

Come to Guernsey. So many jobs and not enough people to fill them!

How long since you have been in employment op? Why did you leave previous employer? @comeandhaveteawithme

I think part of the issue is recruitment is a mess. We need people and struggle with the process, and we end up sticking to not recruiting and making do. People are rejected for daft reasons early on, leave as HR takes so long to finalise or because the correct info isn’t shared or adverts are wrong then amended. People scatter gun apply to hundreds of jobs, AI is used to filter and it’s a vicious circle with people applying to more and more and it becoming unmanageable and ineffective