Brittany Luce

And just to give you one stat, for that indicator episode, we talked to this jobs analytics company, and this company analyzed online job postings, and they said that in 2018...

one out of every five job listings would not result in a hire, right?

So that means like four job listings would result in a hire, one would not.

And then a few years ago, one out of two would not result in a hire.

So it's gotten much worse.

This is anything from...

Someone who sends out an application and never hears back to a listing just being straight out fake, you know, like a LinkedIn post or something on an online job board being fake.

And there's a lot of different reasons for this.

One that I thought was interesting, and this could be an edge case.

The way these online job boards are set up, often employers pay a certain amount of money and then they get to put up a certain number of postings.

So some employers, in order to maximize their money, they're like, well, we'll just use our maximum number of postings, even if maybe they're not really going to hire for all of those jobs just because they don't want to waste their money because they've already been charged for those postings.

Oh my gosh.

I'm looking at your face, Brittany.

That is like a really like depressing reason.

That's dark.

It's really disheartening.

But then I think what's happening on the employer side is they're getting so many applications now because it's so easy to apply for a job by just like clicking through.

Yeah.

Or, you know, using AI to apply for like a bunch of jobs at once that employers are finding it very overwhelming, too.

And so maybe that's why they're not getting back to people.