Hiring has become ridiculous, with thousands of people applying for positions, companies ghosting candidates, job postings that don’t exist, and North Korean spies getting hired. Companies have laid off thousands of people, and those people are pounding the pavement (or, rather, stalking Indeed postings) to land a new, hard-to-find job. And yet, companies complain of a “talent shortage.”
On the life side of the work-life balance scale, people are struggling with loneliness. There is even a “romance recession.”
And when I saw this Reddit post on X (where it went viral), I realized the job hunting problem and the loneliness problem are the same problem. This woman had 8,000 matches on her dating app, of which she selected 72 for a first date. Here’s the story:
To keep reading, click here: Searching for Perfect Candidates Is Bad for Hiring. Dating Apps Prove the Problem Is Universal