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Syd and Brit are still wondering how people get jobs, and are getting better at making a podcast? You tell us. No, really. Tell us. Getting deeper into why you shouldn’t show all your cards aka enter your social security number into a job application, and lamenting the days of finding a job IRL.

Discover:

• Is TrustPilot trustworthy? Who can we trust?
• Brit can’t get a word in with an interviewer
• More interviewing and dating parallels
• Obvi LinkedIn sucks it’s owned by Microsoft
• Words to live by from a real housewife
• Another day, another job scam
• The internet is fully cooked, and so are we
• A lesson in protecting your privacy
• The phone lines (aka our email) is open for your stories
• More super “helpful” tips
• Brit gets duped into signing up for Facebook (again)

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We’re still begrudgingly applying to jobs (well, Brit is at least) and putting on our fakest smiles for interviews. Call it field research! Looking for some hot negotiating tips? We have some really obvious ones. And whatever you do, just remember: recruiters are not your friends.

Discover:

• A wholesome interaction with a (debatably) A-list celeb
• A very brief history of processed food & women in the workforce
• To garden or not to garden?
• Syd gets closer to a job…but will it actually happen?
• People are born everyday and yet employers continue to punish birthing people #makeitmakesense
• Scared money don’t make money (but we’ll take whatever we can get)
• Why LinkedIn doesn’t even work for the people trying to hire you
• And why we would be the best recruiters ever
• Is anyone actually reading cover letters? What if it was written by a sad Victorian boy?
• How to avoid moving to Florida, salary ranges and more…!

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Syd and Brit go a little further down the LinkedIn rabbithole when they discover just how much money LinkedIn rakes in from corporate subscriptions. LinkedIn may benefit more from you being unemployed. If you get a job, they lose your engagement. Diabolical.

Discover:

• A cold bitch crying over the joys of motherhood

• Trading a dog for a pack of cigarettes
• LinkedIn is making billions from company subscriptions and we’re all getting screwed
• Getting auto-rejected for an internship when you have nearly a decade of experience
• Trying to “get it up” for your bajillionth job interview
• Being a slut when recruiters text “you up” at last call
• Best and only advice we'll ever give for job interviews…. LIE LIE LIE
• Mr. Dogpoop is hiring but the pay is shit
• The medieval nature of freelancing

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Syd and Brit dive into the weirdest jobs they’ve ever had while delving deeper into the job search, sharing some new developments on recruiters and the tactics companies use to reel in potential suckers—I mean, applicants. They uncover some unexpected stats and wrap things up on a high note.

Discover:

• Bachelorette parties are both a job and a scam
• Some people think their jobs are more important than they are
• You’re not Tree Paine
• Getting into the odd jobs of it all
• More dunking on LinkedIn, man we really hate LinkedIn
• The longer you’re unemployed the shittier of a job you’ll settle for and companies are banking on it
• How to turn weird fetishes into cash the easy way
• The unemployment stats aren’t adding up
• End on a high note

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Syd and Brit recount their last week of hopeless job hunting. If looking for a job wasn’t bad enough, now we have ghost jobs and job scams to worry about. This podcast still won’t help you get a job but it can help you recognize ghost jobs and scam jobs.

Discover:

• Diving headfirst into momhood
• Getting our hearts broken and our dreams crushed with one single email
• Busting job scams wide open and how to avoid getting got
• Dunk on capitalism and creative directors

• Exploring ghost jobs, rebranding to mirage jobs
• Tales from unemployment r/recruitinghell Reddit
• The workforce hates women but despises moms
• Pregnant Then Screwed
• The joys of pivoting
• Good news from Waffle House