Job seekers can't get entry-level roles due to high qualifications
17 posts across 8 communities in the last 30 days; 59% from r/recruitinghell.
“I want you guys to tell me how did u do that. Lately i have almost given up on the corporate sector. No response nothing. So was thinking to start with govt job preparation but i dont quite have any kind kf motivation. I am feeling i cant crack this. I have lost the touch of…”
“Welcome to the Muppet Show. A CEO is not interested in what people doing extra beside the job! He´s looking for a real Talent, a money maker, a person who´s lifted and bringing perfect results. The Problem in 2026 is HR- these People are mind not the business. They have not the…”
“why do they do this? why not just say "sorry we can't hire you this time" or "other candidates fit our requirements more" or give actual feedbaso i can improve.”
Many job seekers are frustrated because they possess the skills and experience required for entry-level positions, but companies demand increasingly unrealistic qualifications. This creates a barrier to workforce entry and raises concerns about future taxpayers.
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“I want you guys to tell me how did u do that. Lately i have almost given up on the corporate sector. No response nothing. So was thinking to start with govt job preparation but i dont quite have any kind kf motivation. I am…”
“Just read someone’s post about being over-qualified. Could you list fewer qualifications on your CV? (If it’s for a job that requires few of them.) submitted by /u/Desperate-Smile1411 [link] [comments]”
““You need experience doing a job before you can do the job” is the kind of circular reasoning that this post is pointing out. How is a non-patient facing role going to help here? I’d think that wheeling people around is the exact job that’s best for gaining that experience, because if something happens you mostly just call for help and get the hell out of the way.”
“Around me, we require a full PSW certification to even do this Last I spoke to someone about it, its 15k CDN for tuition and books, + 8 months of day courses, so you either need enough of a money cushion you can survive for 8 months no pay, or you work night shifts while going to school”
“Yeah, but pretty much everything I see that is "generic office type job" is asking for specific skills with a stated requirement of specific degrees like Business Admin or whatever with internships and etc. The idea of there being generic "just needs a bachelors degree" jobs isn't really something that seems to be rooted in reality. This is why also why when young people at my retail job mention wanting to go to college I have to resist the urge to butt in and go on a lon”
Do you not understand that the world is made up of individuals?
“Where are these entry level positions? All I ever see on the state website is experience and/or advanced degrees or blue collar work. Sometimes the website seems to be malfunctioning and will list 0 jobs, even for the entire state, which I find hard to believe”
“I check museums all the time. 99 percent of the time its always stuff that requires a masters or PhD and experience. Or its stuff like janitor positions. There was one tour guide job where I met all the requirements but they wanted you to speak in Spanish. I only speak English fluently. Its so infuriating. I would've really wanted to do that job. And it was on a historical topic that I knew inside out and was extremely passionate about. If I was a college professor its a topic that would be”
“Experience is no use without qualifications. Nobody will employ you. Get the qualifications (level 2 and level 3), and get some experience.”
“Welcome to the Muppet Show. A CEO is not interested in what people doing extra beside the job! He´s looking for a real Talent, a money maker, a person who´s lifted and bringing perfect results. The Problem in 2026 is HR- these People are mind not the business. They have not the background of a Enterprise Account Manager 130.000 K Salary fixum handling or a It-Engeneer or Marketing Background. These pple should flex and find the best for the companie? I ask you all how? That what we live here is”
“by this logic, no one will ever get a job. entry level means no professional experience is required. it's literally the meaning of the words. if they want to require education or hobbyist experience thats fine, they can still call it entry level, but if thats what you mean you're just being pedantic.”
“Given the utter aversion, the utter hatred society has to giving young people a chance to enter the workforce, to get entry level roles.... do we need future taxpayers, or is it an exercise in futility to give birth to the next generation? submitted by /u/blackHOLEofalife [link] [comments]”
“Apparently the new minimum qualifications are: good school, good job, elite extracurricular achievement, successful side business, and at least one completely unrelated revenue stream. We are officially living in hell if this is what the job market expects from candidates. You need to run a private chef business for billionaires, have been the best archer in the country at 16, or casually make $200K selling fishing rods on the side. And if I’m making $200K a year selling custom fishing rods, why”
“ok, so I am targeting aerospace/defense companies for internships. For many of my applications it says "currently under consideration", "application under review", or something similar, which to me suggests they are actively screening candidates that weren't filtered out by ATS. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what it seems like to me. In other cases, I applied to roles around the same time and my status still says something like "application submitted" or &”
“Posting this for my wife because she's too annoyed to write it herself. She started interviewing with a well-known DTC makeup brand and the hiring manager told her up front they wanted the role filled in two weeks. Great. They sent her a pretty big take-home assignment with a one-week deadline, and she basically did nothing else that week. Submitted on time Then nothing for three weeks. Somewhere in that wait she found out she was pregnant. When they finally got back to her, they asked her t”
“why do they do this? why not just say "sorry we can't hire you this time" or "other candidates fit our requirements more" or give actual feedbaso i can improve. submitted by /u/rakshasiRani [link] [comments]”