@chapeau-noir wrote:
@deltilogical wrote:
So when I was looking for work I was competing against 80,000 fake job applications being sent out as a research project.
You were probably not in direct competition with 80,000 fake people - they threw a pretty wide net.
Extremely wide. 10,000 job positions (so that's only 8 fake apps per job) AND spread out over the course of 3 years. Also the experiment was only to measure CALLBACKS, so either they just had a voicemail set up to collect the callbacks (and then not return those calls) or someone answering the calls but saying they already found another job or something. So no real competition whatsoever.
