Job Market Insights: Why Are There So Many Open Roles and Seekers?

Question for y'all -- I see Ashley posting tons of jobs and LinkedIn keeps telling me I'm "qualified" for several new roles a day, even though I haven't indicated anywhere I'm looking. And yet I still see several posts a day from folks who are walking away from the job search after months of looking. What gives? Are there still far more seekers than openings? Are those all just ghost jobs? Are all these orgs looking for unicorn candidates that don't exist?

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Erica
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yes
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Ashley
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yes
Ashley
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more people looking than there are roles
fewer actual roles available than there appears to be
layoffs are still happening, so the pool continues to grow
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Mike Jandreau
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There’s also companies posting fake jobs they have no intent on filling in order to pretend their company is growing when it is not.
Ashley
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yes, that’s what i was referring to in the second bullet
Sarah Betts
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Someone needs to go bop these execs on the head
Ashley
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yea, it’s not great.
Ashley
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there are more roles, and i’ve certainly had more interviews in the last month than like, almost all of last year
Ashley
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but i’m convinced they’re all doing research
Ashley
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they don’t know what they want, so they interview all of these people to figure itout
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Ashley
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huge waste of people’s time and energy
Sarah Betts
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That's what I'm hearing too. I also know our old sales leader opened up senior roles at least 2x and then changed his mind, switching to interviewing juniors. Then hired a contractor 🙄
Ashley
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yes, that’s happening a lot more in eng and product roles, too
Ashley
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i’ve been seeing a lot of hire and fire in 3 months cycles from non profitable VC companies
Erica
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There is a LOT of candidate time wasting JB the current process. That’s the worst part imo.
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dpotter
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yes, I've been applying for months and crickets 😞
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