My local chain grocery store has asked us, local people, multiple times to apply as we have been shopping and slightly chatting with the staff. We have applied via the chain’s systems. And yes, they expect you to send your CV and a written letter. Then you write out all the info in your CV to their forms. Then you take 5-10 videos of yourself answering their questions.
If you make through this, you get to the Second Level. There you’re supposed to attend a Teams group meeting where you “fight” with random people who are also applying for the jobs, in different locations.
If you get through this, you get to the Third Level where you will be invited to another Teams meeting with one-on-one interview. If you get through this, you might get the job.
The job search is obviously not done by the local store, it’s a “service” the chain buys from some other company. None of us have gotten through. The store seriously needs employees, they have the “search” constantly open and keep asking the locals to apply. The store has too little workers, it’s not working properly. Shelves are unstocked, fruits rotten, staff is cranky and angry. The boss complains in local newspaper that “the locals just aren’t applying for some reason!”
I wonder if the grocery store could just hire you directly and cut out the middle man? Like just approach the boss and be like. I need a job. You need worker. Gimme a contract and I’ll start tomorrow
We have tried that, but it always comes back to the “please apply by our web portal” and then to “why don’t we get any aplications?”
i wonder if its just to say they had people applying, but the company is using that to lower thier taxes with thier countries tax schemes or not hire enough to justify a budget.
Could be that or it could even be that the service went to shit and they have no way of getting out of contract. I talked to one guy who worked C-suite at a small company and apparently the previous CEO before his boss sign a shit contract back in 2018 for hiring services from one of these companies, they want to terminate it but even circumnavigation of the contract risks severe penalties, their solution to getting new staff is to literally have people spin up a shell company buy and absorb it then onboard the socalled employees.
Frankly it seems these hiring companies are just parasites that popped up due to companies not knowing how to do online shit. Then fucking everyone over via shitty contracts.
i assume you mean recruiting companies? it doesnt seem like every company uses them. or its the software license that screens out/hires applicants? seems the latter is more common.
ours use online portals(indeed, or the main website), but we also have job fairs right in the store to hire people on the spots, so that is a plus. the job fairs are rare though(i think Indeed has listing when some happens?)
What a modern nightmare.
I mean, it fits. Name one thing in today’s world that isn’t a modern nightmare. I guess I’m not constantly fighting off wolves, but modern wolves have your neck in their throat from the time you’re born. It’s wild to me that American kids as young as 14 fought in WW2 because they simply lied about their age. You could just do that and it’d get you through. I need 36 forms of ID and 2 written letters from close friends to get my water turned on when I move.
applying to certain programs/job (technicians) are outrageous too. i was looking at a job recently pharm related, you need to buy this course/ or go to school/ or work 500hrs(working in a pharmacy chain) to apply to take the national cert exam , and then in our state you have to get a LICENSE on top of the certification(CALI), each has its seperate cost: pre- certification course, the certification test itsef, the LICENSING, which has different areas that has its own cost(application fee, livescan, self-query fee). since its a health technician(not a tech as in programming) your wages, depending where you live could be slightly higer or higher than min wage, or at min wage(HCOL=higher wage, LCOL lower wages) for the whole BS process, oh and it takes months to process the license, and these are just HS- required jobs.
Yeah I’m glad I got called back after layoffs. Technology was supposed to make our lives easier, but all it’s done is give more hoops to jump through and more surveillance.
i find odd that the pharm job(not pharmacist) require so much invasive datamining in cali to get a stupid license for such a underpaid job, they do all the dirty work pharmacists dont do.
I’m starting to think this is what’s happening to the local stores in my neighborhood that are only small but still part of a bigger franchise. They are always understaffed and looking for new staff.
i notice grocery stores burn people out so they have turn over, hence the shortstaffing. but in my area, one bougie chain pride itself on “eco friendly” just burns people out and budget cuts the deparments. recently our meat cutting/sandwich(hot food) deparment when through some cuts to the budget on an already understaff dept, and 5 people left immediately.(due to asking them do this or that more than thier role required)
What the actual fuck is this?
Corporate Hunger games?
corporate kiss assing. since they use things to ask if you are good fit, its mostly kissing thier ass, and playing nall with thier “corporate culture”. job gap, and “what do you see your self in 5 years” probably guaging if you flake on the company as soon as you are hired.
why use a 3rd party recruit system, if they cant find people, this would be costco level of “hiring” except minus costco is great place to work compared all other chains. since costco is somewhat competitive, i heard its quite hard to get a job there, that isnt night time.
i heard this for certain companies like legacy techs, but not a grocery chain. Our grocery chain(WF) is so desperate they will hire almost anyone, the turnover was very high, because they decided skeleton crew some of the departments, via budget cuts, understaffing. the ones that quit were OVERworked, blamed for not doing enough by higher ups(Manager roles). front end, cs has the worst experience, followed by prepared foods.
I felt that with most bigger corporations, where it was a shitload of sometimes very abstract questions, asking the same thing in different words, all that sort of stuff and then having you answer some of that same stuff on video. I guess it’s to try and see if you’re a good “culture fit” without having to actually meet you.
Then in a smaller company it was a few questions and sending your CV online. I got a call next morning inviting me to an interview, which was very much a “let’s get a feel of this guy”, a firm handshake, done and done. It felt so good after all that big corporation horseshit.
Nothing feels more dehumanising than applying for a job in 2026 with a big company*
and getting past thier Ai filters, and they have the audacity to say people are using AI to make thier resumes for them and MASS apply.
most companies dont even go that far to look at your resume. before AI started trashing resume, they had softwares to screen out keywords/accept keywords and the hiring managers never see it, because the software just trashed the resume. AI made it 100x worst.
Add a scan of your government issued ID as well since they’re getting a scan of your face too.
also livescan your fingerprints, and selfquery yourself. for health technician, needs a laborous license process too, and certification test on top of that.
the local taco bell has a sign up saying “we’re hiring, inquire within to apply”. i havent seen that in years. i wonder if people are giving up navigating online job hunting
pre-pandemic, i actually tried applying through (when someone takes a picture of job hiring sign , with email contact) and uploads it to the job sites, nope, no responses at all, why bother putting it up if they are never going to look at thier email. one chain near me does job fairs so they hire people as fast as they can, but i doubt most places are like this.
If you had the choice between coming to work on time or attending the joint funeral of your child, spouse and parents what would you chose?
“I’d show up to work early. I can visit their graves on my day off later this year (if I take it). There’s just too much shareholder value at stake for me to be inaccessible for an hour during the week”
I feel like you’re a good candidate but that is just not enough. We are looking for the best of the best who go above and beyond and I feel like you just miss that little extra you know the last little bit on top
or they send this " we will use your resume for future consideraiton, but wont hire you", more like they will use your resume to screen out other resumes.
You have to go through this even when you’re applying for something like shelf stacking at your local store. It’s truly ridiculous.
assuming you get past the AI being used to screen out more candidates than before the pandemic. and then we have users spamming them with AI generated resumes.
is .mov acceptable?
Has to be .mov, .mov is not supported
CSV. Comma Separated Videos.
Submit your CVS CSV CV for this pharmacy job please.
this got me wondering if anyone ever submitted a résumé to cvs on a roll of receipt paper.
the toxic thermal paper. you can write your whole resume and CV on there, probably your linkenin profile.
1.5 months 2 interviews. 40 applications. This is for all entry level/ sub 20 an hour jobs. Tbf it’s summer so it’s dry as fuck
With 8 years of customer service experience they eeked out an additional 15 cents an hour. Kill me now.
I love how some will require you to re input the same information again, despite a resume upload.
About to start putting domestic terrorist on the resume soon if nothing hits
when i was applying after graduated with my "degree’ summer were the worst time to apply. i also noticed the more you apply the more bridges you burn with certain companies, because you start to see the same company again, and think you can apply to a different role, nope company has your email on file already.
so i started removing degree, or HS diploma. thats probably the first thing the software sees to screen things out.
the cover letting is pratically begging for the job. forgot the celebrity in the picture name, i assume she recently made the comment" just find your passion and not do any other job until you do". many people commented said , yea if you are WEALTHY. aka, cherry pick your jobs.
