Doomjobbing: how the modern job hunt became a vicious loop

The search for work has become crushing for many, scrolling through limitless unsuitable job ads. Is there a way out of this cycle? Appearance: Imagine a recruitment website sucking the life from you. Is this related to doomscrolling, by any chance? How perceptive of you. Remind me what that is, again. Doomscrolling? It’s where you find yourself sinking into a rabbit hole of short-form content designed to reinforce your worst perceptions of the world. And now what is doomjobbing? It’s that, but for job ads. I don’t understand. OK, so imagine you’re stuck in a low-paying and spiritually unfulfilling job. You want out. Where do you look? A job listings site, probably. Now, imagine that you look at so many job listings sites, filtering through an infinite compendium of jobs that aren’t suitable, or don’t pay enough, or require qualifications that you don’t have. Imagine this is how you spend all your free time. Pick a word that might describe the sensation it causes. Doom? Doom! The experience is that of repeatedly thwarted hope. You see a job you like, put time and effort into an application, then get your heart broken when you aren’t even invited to an interview. Slowly all your wor