> Siu, who's trying to use his pharmacy degree to work in other parts of healthcare, is finding it harder to land interviews than in a prior job search.<p>HR is using AI application tracking systems to screen applicants, and it's doing as good a job as AI and software does. Don't have $EXACT_KEYWORD1 and $BUZZWORD2? Your application will never get seen by a human.
One reason could be that the current unemployment rate used is not that useful.<p>A better metric would be total employment: <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-persons" rel="nofollow">https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-persons</a><p>It has increased since the pandemic, but so did the US population. If the linear trend (pre-pandemic) carried on, the US should be at 165 million total employed. However, currently it is sitting at 161 million. So there is 3-4 million jobs missing.