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Oh yeah this is right on the spot, and it's not just Indeed. Some car dealership near me is looking for a stock clerk. Another place is looking for a logistics expert. A third place is looking for a dental hygenist. The last listing in the email is for an arborist. The job I'm looking for: photographer.

It does find a few photographer jobs in my area (often looking for photographers for school pictures, which is not for me), but much more frequently, it sends emails with a subject line like, "We've found a great match for your chosen job!", and when I open it, it's hundreds of miles away and part time, and extremely low pay. That arborist job was in Maine, almost 700 miles away. It found a product photographer job for me, in Arizona, 2,300 miles away. Rough commute.

The word "indeed" has confused me. English is my third language, I know it essentially translates to "I agree/yes", but to me it sounds like someone is in need of help or action (in-deed)

Linkedin keeps spamming me with jobs, even though I've told it I'm not interested in jobs. I had to stop it from sending any emails or other notifications at all, because it would keep sending them every few hours. What made it worse was that it was the same 5 or 6 listings it would repeatedly tell me I should apply to.

Cleaning Soap job application requires 10 screening questions and your government ID before sending your resumé

Once upon a time Indeed used to be good. It focused on tech jobs, had a clean, usable interface and even offered a service called Indeed Prime that was a recruiting firm focused on IC tech roles.

But then I went back to the site recently, and man, it’s hot garbage. The search was stupidly slow, like it was sending every keystroke to the backend in a synchronous manner. If I typed too fast it would drop characters. It was just bad.

Im really really tempted to delete my linkedin. Its never got me a job in my life, but I did notice a lot of people look at my page before I got a couple in the past.

Its not a very good system. Its just more professional facebook with less subtlety about people looking at your page. And they lock EVERYTHING down that is useful in a paywall.

How many years of experience are needed for tricking goblins? Also do I need any certifications?

Yeah these job boards get weird with emails. Like, they have all these preference settings in your profile, then they just blatantly ignore all of them-especially the salary and location ones.

I get occasional emails from agencies saying they saw my CV and I'd be a perfect fit for a role (that is a junior role and earning about half what I earn with shite benefits).

The silver lining to the job notifications is that it tells you which companies are hiring and for what. Don't bother with their "easy apply" option and go to their website to apply directly instead. My success rate is still like 0.5% but at least they send you rejection emails more often.