#job market struggles

[dechnsign]

Plight of Design Job Aspirants

Attention is required by the leaders in the design industry.

(LONG POST AHEAD)

There have been many complaints nowadays about companies giving design tests or assignments, and thereafter, the candidates are left unanswered.

The job market has been difficult for everyone looking for opportunities.

People may spend weeks or sometimes months looking for a job, which is sad.

I have even seen the so-called design leaders on LinkedIn showing concern towards this trend of INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED DESIGNERS.

Let me tell you that this has just not started in 2024.

This trend has been there in 2022, 2023, and I may not be wrong that this will continue in the next year as well.

And the solution is most hilarious to this one by those leaders.

According to them, the candidates do not have the skill, they do have that hunger in them to learn, and Falana Dheemkana.

Then the question is why do we waste time on design assignments?

Don't the people hiring see our portfolio when shortlisting people for the assignment round?

I just have a simple question.

Many people may have those assignments - the company ones.

So why waste the effort?

So should we start displaying those on our LinkedIn/Behance/Instagram whatever?

Because the person who is taking the interview will ask ke bhai why are you unemployed for so long? What were you doing?

We will show them those REJECTED Assignments.

So is it fine to do so?

I am waiting for the responses.

[fuumiku]

It was Maid Day today yesterday a week ago so I got struck by inspiration to draw the worsties, and it ran away from me into a whole AU where they’re coworkers at a maid cafe. She’s a med student & this is just a part time job, and this is his depression job while he gets his life back together. He needs something he can be workaholic about to forget what it’s like having a personal life and personal issues. He’s actually the accountant, but the new hire janitor (Izutsumi) doesn’t show up for half her shifts and is a sloppy worker, so he gets the extra work of doing her job on top of his because he’s undervalued and overworked. Of course, janitors also have an uniform to keep the aesthetic cohesion as they go about cleaning the place, of course.

Senshi’s the part time cook you only see slivers off, he’s kind and warm when you do see him and have a chat but most shifts he’s in and out the kitchen without a trace. Laios and Falin are regulars because Falin and Marcille are besties & in the same med school, Laios accompanies Falin as she visits her friend at work and gets hooked on the food. Chilchuck has to remind Marcille to work instead of chatting with Falin for an hour, and next thing he knows she’s distracting him from work too. That’s it that’s the AU. Inspired by this idol AU fanart a bit <3

This was not meant to be birthday gift but well…… Happy bday Chil!!!

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[dunmeshiminimumwage]

back when i worked at [large chain coffee store], i tried to unionize my workplace. my manager sat me down and gave me a very guilt trip-y talk. lots of "but i thought we were a family :(" and "you don't *really* know what unionization does, do you?" i played dumb and managed to avoid being fired, but. chilchuck momence.

[sunshinemayhem]

Telemachus is such a prince because literally no one wants more problems at age 20

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

just had the BEST meeting with my thesis committee where they were all impressed with my progress and they were SO nice and long story short ya girl might have a doctorate by next spring 😭

[gravyhoney]

Who up wishing they could afford to live?

[eggsistential-basket]

thinking about the person i could have been if i tried a little harder to find my own way

[benrey-where-he-shouldnt-be]

Hey, I know it has been (checks blank wrist) nearly two years, and while you and I both know this account is probably completely dead, I need some monetary help while I have your attention. My car died a month ago and I'm going to have to get a new one. I just barely have enough for it, but that'll leave me with no money for other living expenses. I'm trying to save up to move across the country to live with my bf, and having to spend nearly 550 a month for car financing and insurance is going to kill my funds. I work minimum wage at a convenience store, and am going to be moving with my family and will be out of a job for a bit. I want to make sure I have enough to keep making payments during the unemployment period. But, you'll get something in return for your support!

I'm doing art commissions (for those who have seen my art on here, I've improved quite a lot!), starting at a base rate of $5, up to $30 (minus add ons). The information for it is here . Any interaction with it is appreciated.

Thank you for your time, and thanks for supporting this silly project. Maybe I'll kick it back up if enough people want me to!

[gilmore-gossip]

Humans love to work.

It’s when you force them to work for 8 hours almost daily for the rest of their lives to barely afford a roof over their head, for a soul-wrecking job, making millionaires into billionaires, that they end up hating it.

[grossillygirl]

I feel like ppl judge sex workers way too harshly. I genuinely see those inspectors who go on public transport like buses and trains, and fine ppl £50 for an unpaid ticket worth £3 as like morally wrong, whereas sex work has consent from both parties on some level. Obviously there are so many layers to sw especially as technology has changed things up a bit & it can lead to bad situations still. I am slightly biased as a sw but idk i thought that way even before i became one.

It's literally punishing the poor by making them more poor for being too poor to pay the ticket like normal.. cus 9/10 they will pay if they can.

[sygneth]

I hate looking for a job so fucking much, I'm struggling with this shit for over half a year now, and the only company that answered me so far offer a stationary job 1,5h drive from my home (would be 40 minutes if I had a working car) which technically is not tragic, but I don't want to spend three additional hours at work, so I'm doing this recruitment task praying for them to think it's shit because I really don't want to work there but I am too desperate for money and insurance to just refuse them and if they'll like it I'll probably just agree to work there, because they are literally the only place in a couple of months that replied, just kill me

[witchcraftingboop]

Lately, I am trying so hard to be patient. My little sister has been unemployed for almost a year now and instead of staying home and applying to jobs, she keeps going out, going on dates, spending whatever little money she has, and hanging out with friends. On one hand, yes, it is important to live your life even when times are hard, and I don't know how much my upbringing (particularly the emphasis placed on taking any job so long as you stay employed) is impacting my view on things. So I recognize that my perspective isn't likely to 1) help her or 2) make her feel better about her situation. But on the other hand, her stress is stressing me out, and I am summoning deep reserves of patience to not be just another person in her life who lectures and nags her. My older sister and I have also agreed that we're not going to give her money or gifts or anything like that anymore and stick to the deadlines set in place. But part of me just really wants to grab her by the shoulders and start shaking and then give her extra bus fare and food money so she might be a bit more motivated to venture forth. Unfortunately, I also am very much aware that that money would go to takeout and hair dye and be gone in a single weekend. I am simply... very stressed 🫠

[that-punk-adam]

I can’t find it right now, and my phone has shitty battery, but I would like to say that I am working on my first song. I’m not a singer, but my voice is OK. 

My very last bus never came. That shit will irritate me to the end of days. For once, I would really like for America just invest in it’s fucking people. Quit sending money overseas. Clearly, it’s not working, so quit it.

Anyway. I would like to say that if this job doesn’t work out because public transit was insisting on being shitty, then I guess I’ll just go out and be a street performer. I met one recently who travels on the bus, and he was a nice guy. He does OLD ragtime tin music. I would do more punk shit. I don’t have any instruments or nothing, so if I ever wanted to add some other sound, I would have to think of something. 

[camellia-thea]

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[elvenferretots]

I feel like a bad person vehemently not trusting rescue like I do.

My friend just insisted the generic pit bull puppies at the last adoption event were corso mixes (rare and in-demand to my area) because the shelter knew the mother to be one. The mother was not present at the event. I replied without thinking, "Yeah, and our friend was told his white pit bull is a dogo. It's not. And our other friend was told her dog was a chihuahua mix, mother confirmed as a chihuahua. And it DNA'ed as half pit bull, half husky/shepherd. I don't believe for a second those dogs are corso, and wouldn't believe it unless the mother was there."

Like, I really wish I could trust them. I really wish I wasn't so jaded. But working at a big box pet store that sponsored regular private rescue events and volunteering for shelters has made me lose all faith in the honesty of the American secondhand dog market.

[rotzaprachim]

the thing about Hawai’i politics is that. You absolutely need to criticize the local government. But you also need to stand the economic and political politics of living in a place where the local government doesn’t have an iota of the power of the mega corporations like Hilton and Sheraton that run mega resorts here, nor the billionaires like mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, or Jeff bezos that run second homes here or have quasi-feudal estates or exert far far more power than the relatively progressive county and state governments

like. You have to clock what it is that a man worth over 100 billion dollars purchased 98% of an island. What that’s like. What power does a city councilman who represents that island in a council have over a man worth over 100 billion who both owns the land people live on AND the hotels they work at