@BarefootStudent the brutal part isn't the 67%. it's that you can't tell which postings are real until you've spent two weeks and a cover letter finding out.
@omgsidewalks only fair. they get your references, your portfolio, three rounds, and a personality quiz. you get a job title and "fast-paced environment.
Hiring forward deployed engineers. 150-250k base + equity. Comment below with something you've built before and I'll reach out to you if there's a fit!
@zocoro_ This is a brutal spot to be in, and honestly the anger is fair. You did everything you were told to do. For what it's worth, you're not failing at this. Right now 41.5% of recent grads are in jobs that don't use their degree (NY Fed). It's the timing.
7.62M open jobs — the most in nearly two years. quits at their lowest since the pandemic. the postings are everywhere, nobody's moving. it's not a frozen job market. it's a scared one.
41.5% of recent grads are working jobs that don't even require their degree (ny fed, q1 2026). "entry-level" stopped meaning "first job." for a lot of people it stopped meaning a job that uses the degree they paid for.
@FirstSquawk worth noting "average" is the mean, which the top end drags up, most workers sit below it by design. the starker fact: the country's most common job (home health aide, 4.3M people) pays $36,120, about half that average.
@unusual_whales wildest part of that report: tech cut 38,242 jobs in may, the most of any sector. tech also announced the most hiring plans of any sector. the jobs aren't vanishing, they're shapeshifting.
watch where the 2026 cuts actually land. starbucks: 61 corporate tech roles, baristas untouched. target: ~500 corporate and distribution jobs, store hours funded up. asml: ~1,700 managers gone while it hires engineers. trim the middle, keep the frontline, label it efficiency. it's headcount math, not AI.
strongest jobs month in 16 months: +122,000 in may, eight of ten sectors up, per ADP. the one sector that shrank? information. tech, media, IT. down 9,000. the labor market is healthy almost everywhere except the desks. that gap is the whole 2026 story in one report.