Glassdoor President: finding the right job shouldn’t feel like winning the lottery

Finding a job right now feels like a fool’s errand. Tailoring resumes, customizing cover letters, retyping the same work history into an endless stream of application portals, and then, more often than not, hearing nothing back. The problem isn’t that the search takes effort, it’s that the effort so rarely produces anything in return. The sense that a resume goes straight into a black box isn’t imagined – applications per job have more than doubled since 2022, and the average company now has 56% fewer recruiters to review them. Fifteen plus years ago,…