The unemployment rate has been holding steady at around 4.9% since January 2016 and has everyone declaring the US as being at "full employment," i.e. only useless losers who just don't want to work are still unemployed. I always thought a sign of being at "full employment" was the average job ad receiving only a handful of applicants. So, color me shocked when I recently stumbled upon this LinkedIn direct apply job from last January...
500+ applicants????? And, apparently, the applicant counter craps out at 500, maybe there were a thousand applicants, who knows?
Well, that job is in NYC. I hear the job market in Washington, DC, is pretty robust. Let's check this job out...
In each case, I'm baffled by those who hit the "apply" button when there were already known to be several hundred applicants. Does the 330th applicant actually believe that s/he stands a chance?
If this is what "full employment" looks like today, we're screwed.
