The REAL Reason You Can't Get A Job

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While official reports show "low" unemployment, the reality is a job market collapse where opportunities exist only on paper. Gen Z graduates, despite being highly educated, cannot find stable entry level jobs. Employers post ghost jobs across platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, creating an inflated sense of demand while never intending to hire. This makes the job search frustrating and misleading, wasting the time of qualified applicants while feeding corporations data and investor confidence. The problem runs deeper than just competition for scarce roles. The hiring process itself has become automated, impersonal, and nearly impossible to navigate. Automated resume screeners filter out candidates before human recruiters ever review them, punishing job seekers for missing keywords rather than evaluating real experience. Entry level jobs now demand multiple years of prior experience, locking out graduates entirely. Meanwhile, ongoing mass layoffs in tech, finance, and media create a surplus of overqualified workers chasing fewer roles, fueling underemployment and wage suppression. Ghost jobs are one of the clearest examples of how employers manipulate the job market. Companies keep listings active to make themselves appear to be expanding or to test the labor market without committing to new hires. This practice has flooded job boards with misleading openings, making it difficult for job seekers to know which opportunities are real. On LinkedIn alone, countless job postings remain open for months without a single interview scheduled, a cycle that contributes to the illusion of opportunity while deepening frustration among applicants. Gen Z graduates, who enter the labor force burdened with student debt and rising living costs, are often the first casualties of this system. Even with advanced degrees, many cannot secure jobs that match their qualifications. Instead, they accept low-wage service work or part-time contracts that provide no long-term stability. For a generation promised that higher education guaranteed success, the disconnect between expectations and reality has created disillusionment and financial insecurity. Remote work, once seen as a lifeline for broader access to jobs, has also started to shrink as companies push workers back into offices. Combined with ongoing mass layoffs, this shift has intensified competition in an already fragile job market. Corporations take advantage of this surplus of labor by offering lower pay and stricter requirements, knowing there are plenty of applicants desperate for any opportunity. The real reason you can’t get a job has little to do with motivation or skills. Instead, it is the result of structural flaws in the hiring system—ghost jobs, mass layoffs, corporate manipulation of job boards, and unrealistic expectations for entry level roles. Until these systemic barriers are addressed, job seekers will remain caught in a cycle of endless job searches, rising unemployment risk, and shrinking opportunities in a collapsing job market. #financialeducation #financialfreedom #history 0:00 Intro 0:22 Why America Only Looks At People As Data Points 0:56 Why The Job Market Has Gen Z Feeling Hopeless 2:35 Employers Admit WHY They Post Ghost Jobs... 3:13 Why Ghost Jobs Are Severely Hurting The Workforce 6:07 Why People Are Being Forced To Send Hundreds Of Job Applications 8:57 Why The Job Market Feels Hopeless 9:21 A Legislative Act Being Proposed To STOP Ghost Jobs 10:48 Why Ghost Jobs Are WORSE Than We Thought 13:27 How YOU Can Help Stop Ghost Jobs 15:23 Why The Job Market Is RUINING Peoples Lives 18:29 Why It Was So Hard To Make This Video 20:22 How You Can Help Fix The Job Market Links: The Petition (This Is Where You Can Help Make A Difference): https://www.change.org/StopGhostJobs TJAAA Website: https://www.truthinjobads.org/ The Act Itself: https://www.truthinjobads.org/s/TJAAA-Full-Act-20250828-Draft.pdf Andra Berghoff's YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hopeyoufindyourdad?si=euMlINtVQPjwtUhc Titles for the Algo! The REAL Reason You CAN’T Get A Job The Real Reason You CAN’T Get A Job The REAL Reason Getting A Job Seems Impossible Why It Feels IMPOSSIBLE To Get A Job Why Finding A Job Feels Impossible Why The Job Market Is Collapsing