[juancn]

There's so many graduates that are not worth the paper their degree is printed on that it's laughable (if it weren't sad).

That's a good part of the reason why hiring processes are so long and you need to re-check everything people are supposed to know. Filtering out hundreds of candidates to get a mediocre one at best, thousands to get a really good one.

There are job openings, but just having a piece of paper is not enough to get to those.

AI tools have made recruiting a miserable experience for everyone involved, there's so much cheating in applicants and you waste so much time filtering those out and sadly, good candidates sometimes get lost in the noise.

Networking is what has the highest signal to noise ratio. A good recommendation from someone you trust helps a lot, but it penalizes people just starting their careers and have smaller networks.

It's a sad state of affairs.