[Rooster61]

I think that's part of the story, but the holders of the most popular marketplaces are I think willingly allowing the actual utility of connecting job seekers with jobs to fall to shit for the sake of user engagement. LinkedIn being a prime example.

If job marketplaces actually cared about the end user experiences of those seeking/offering jobs, we'd see much more effort towards blunting the impact of things such as AI spam and ghost job postings. They have no real impetus to do so, however, because they are making money hand over fist off the volume of people desperately interacting with their services.

In short, the main interface to the job market has been enshittified.

[FinnLobsien]

Yeah, I think this is part of the issue. Job boards are the go-to interface for HR professionals to list jobs and for applicants to find them.

Those are much worse now, and most people aren't the level of standout talent that gets inbound jobs, nor scour careers pages for hours.