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Why is it so hard to get a job as a junior dev? Or just wanting to do an internship.
I realized that during the pandemic, if I had at least a “Computer Technician” on my CV it was enough to get a good job, but now... (Well, at least I've noticed this in Brazil, I don't know about elsewhere).
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You might be oversimplifying the situation a little bit, but I understand what you mean.
A big change is the improvement in A.I. resulting in many people in higher positions of companies not valuing employees, who they believe they can replace by some bot.
This would have put many people, who already have experience, back into the competing pool. So many H.R. staff can raise their expectations.
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everyone needs a professions. immediately to know everything. there is no time to learn :/
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It's a problem at all levels of experience, not only for junior devs. I am highly experienced but I have been looking for work since the COVID layoffs in 2020. I have seen numerous jobs get reposted for years but they never respond to applications. Evidently they are fake postings to make the company appear more attractive to potential investors, implying that they are growing.
I used to get hired if I could prove that I could merely spell the name of the computer language. Now I don't know what it takes. The outlook seems even dimmer now with AI cheapening the value of the profession. Fewer people are needed to do the same work. Keep rolling the Dice and hope to find something.
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I think it is a spiral started during the COVID, when there were WFH and large scale layoff. Since then, companies "happened to believe" they don't need as much office space they used to be, so as employee. Then they reduce the office size, shrink the employee for cost-cutting as economic was bad during COVID.
It was logical in short-term perspective as companies are struggle to survive. However, companies "get used" to it and don't want to expand, probably due to fewer income during COVID. With the people who were layoff can offer less and less expenditure, which in turns companies get fewer income, which makes company reluctant to expand.
I quitted my job during COVID due to health issue, but since then it is getting hard to find a new job.
Dim outlook, rise of the AI (I don't buy this story, at least for the current ability), even worse, geopolitics.
I also heard company keep posting job AD just to keep tracking the market salary trend, but not actually want to hire. Company looks for "immediate productive power" to fill in the slot but not value internal grow also make finding a job difficult in all area, not just programmer.
I'm thinking about to find a blue collar work instead of white after my next treatment, as it doesn't hurt by AI too much by now.
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Wow Brian and Wong Hei Ming, I'm really sorry to read your stories! You're both very knowledgeable and a great help here.
It's definitely horrible looking for jobs - and worse when they don't even bother to respond to your application.
Do you freelance in the field in the meantime? Or what tips, suggestions do you have there?
A blue collar job can help, but be careful, I have experience with this idea too. Once you start such a job and the years build up H.R. only see that as your experience and use it as a means to deny you. It does pay the bills though... just as long as you keep enough time and energy to stay with your passion and build projects to maybe show others etc. Then there's always some hope.