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I want you to hire me, as hard as you can

Working on a new idea. I’ve been baking this one in my head for the past month since I’ve begun looking for jobs. Several people I know have been looking for months and struggling with frustration, rejection, anxiety, and the whole bevy of things associated with a desperate search for meaning and income.

The truth is, the job market sucks. It’s been warped post-COVID and there’s a soft recession on. I want to start something — a support group or community — for job seekers. Seekers need to know it’s going to be ok (myself included!), there’s endless others like them, and we can help each other spiritually, emotionally, and logically. We can share job postings. Refer each other. Write recommendations on each other’s LinkedIns. Critique resumes.

I’m happy to run seminars on cleaning up your LinkedIn to make you more appealing to recruiters. How to combat ATS with a sharp resume optimized with keywords. To let others vent. To show it’s okay to be afraid. To be anxious. To worry about the future. As long as we’re doing it together, we’ll make it.

People who struggled and made it out can come and speak. I can publish videos on YouTube, hold seminars, courses, write e-Books. It should feel inclusive and safe. Do I allow recruiters in? Maybe we have ambassadors to recruiters.

I don’t like what’s happening on LinkedIn — it’s become a podium for moping and begging, with people looking (unintentionally) sloppy while begging for someone to introduce them to a recruiter. We need to off-ramp that to a safe space and let LinkedIn be the professional billboard. It’s not the place for commiserating.

So does it start as a website? A discord? A closed Facebook group? All the above?

The first rule of Job Club — you TALK about Job Club.

Maybe I should just asking around: would people join? How would they want to interact?

Before I even finished this blog post I created a subreddit community. I guess we’ll start there. Job Club is alive in it’s first form: https://www.reddit.com/r/job_club/

August 30, 2025