Job Market in 2025: Over Saturated, Low-Paying, Helpless

Alex The Analyst

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00:00What's going on, everybody?

00:01Welcome back to another video.

00:02It is no surprise that the job market sucks in 2025

00:05and people are not happy about it.

00:07I myself have made posts and video about it,

00:09but it can be tiring just listening to me on these topics.

00:12Let's see what you guys have to say about it.

00:15Okay, this one says entry level.

00:17Five to eight years of experience.

00:21Requires a master's degree.

00:23This is Burger King.

00:25Okay, bet, janitor for Microsoft.

00:27I can do this.

00:29Reference letter from Bill Gates himself.

00:33Oh, I'd love to be in New York, that's for sure.

00:36Five dollars an hour?

00:38Am I gonna live in a shoebox?

00:40You know what, I'm just gonna be a coach for summer camp.

00:42Must be LeBron.

00:45I think that pretty much sums it up.

00:46You're either getting paid way too little

00:48or the requirements are just insane.

00:50You have to have a master's degree or a PhD

00:52for just an entry level job.

00:54And honestly, that makes no sense.

00:56But when you're in a job market when there's a lot more demand

00:59than there are jobs available, it's gonna make it a lot more competitive.

01:02And so employers are feeling like they have a lot more power.

01:05They can pay you less and ask for more in this type of job market,

01:10which is not good for the end consumer,

01:11especially because prices and inflation are causing everything to be more expensive.

01:15I'm a recruiter and I work in the life sciences industry.

01:19I posted a position yesterday on LinkedIn for a data scientist role.

01:24The role is remote.

01:25It filters out anyone that doesn't live in the US,

01:28has knockout questions for people just to make sure that they meet the qualifications for the role.

01:32So active applications, I log in today, over 600.

01:38Taking a look through all of the applications, every single person is qualified.

01:43I have to go through and reject over 600 people for a job that these people probably will deserve

01:50because our market is crashing.

01:53I've never seen anything like this in the 11 years that I've been recruiting.

01:57The job market is awful right now.

01:59Yeah, that is not uncommon.

02:01If you go on LinkedIn right now and you go look at jobs and you filter remote jobs,

02:05anything remote, remote jobs within the past day or two that they've been posted,

02:09it's already going to have like 1500 applications for almost any role in tech.

02:14That means your chances of landing a job on that one are almost nothing.

02:17I have been telling people, especially if they do not have any experience,

02:20that they should not be applying to remote jobs at all.

02:23It's just way too many people.

02:24It's about 80% of the people want to work remote,

02:27which are only 20% of the jobs.

02:29A lot of jobs are going back in person.

02:31They're wanting to ensure that they're getting their return on investment

02:34and they feel like the best way to do that is have them in the office.

02:37So if you live in a metropolitan area and you're only applying to local jobs,

02:41you're going to have like a 100% better chance of landing a job than you do

02:45if you are only applying to remote jobs.

02:47Bro, I feel like you have a better chance of finding your dad that left 10 years ago,

02:52than to find a job in 2025.

02:55Like I swear, bro, nobody wants to hire me.

02:58It's like, why even say y'all are hiring in the first place

03:00if y'all won't even take a second to look at my application.

03:04Finding a job nowadays is like dating.

03:06You're out here shooting your shot by putting in all these applications

03:09only for these companies to end up ghosting you.

03:12Not even a simple email saying that I wasn't selected.

03:15These companies just go completely ghost on you.

03:17That is definitely one of the struggles right now in the job market.

03:21A lot of people are applying to hundreds, if not thousands of jobs,

03:24and they just aren't even receiving an email back.

03:26And I remember being in that exact place many years ago.

03:29It's extremely defeating.

03:31Like I was thinking, do I just give up?

03:33Do I just stop?

03:34Because it doesn't seem like anybody's interested in my resume or what I have to offer.

03:38And that can be a very tough place mentally to be.

03:41If you're like this guy and you're not getting any interviews at all,

03:44that probably means that your resume is not good.

03:47And I say that in the most loving way.

03:49If your resume is not optimized for the skills and the keywords and all these different things,

03:53then your chances of being filtered out are really high.

03:56So your resume never actually gets in front of a human where they can review it

03:59and see what you have to offer and see if you're a good fit for the position.

04:02Here's the real dirty truth about getting a job in data analytics in 2025.

04:06Five years ago, you could get a job as a data analyst just by knowing Excel and a little bit

04:10of SQL.

04:10And 10 years ago, you could get a job as a data analyst by just saying,

04:13I love data and being a real breathing human being getting into 2025.

04:17Everything has changed.

04:19There's been a huge increase in the number of data jobs available,

04:21but there's also been a huge influx of people trying to break into data.

04:25And it's not that data jobs aren't in demand anymore.

04:27It's just that the demand doesn't exactly match the supply.

04:30Companies are looking for senior level talent that really have some experience and can take

04:34their companies to the next level.

04:36But there's an influx of entry level talent hitting the job market.

04:39People are having to train harder, even volunteer as a data analyst and get experience

04:43to even get hired to get experience.

04:46And the best way to get experience as a data analyst is in your current role,

04:50whether you like it or not.

04:51All right.

04:52So I actually agree with almost everything that she was saying.

04:54Many years ago, it's a lot easier to get a job.

04:56There were tech job opening everywhere, but not enough people to actually fill them

05:00because not enough people were in data at that time.

05:02As tech companies and just the need for data professionals grew,

05:05we saw a huge influx of people into the data world.

05:08And now I would say we're a bit oversaturated.

05:11In 2025, most of that is because of a slowing economy.

05:14We have a lot of companies that are just freezing hiring or they're even laying off people.

05:18And I absolutely agree with what she said at the end.

05:20That's actually how I got my first job.

05:21I was working at a nonprofit in a completely different role.

05:24I knew nothing about data, but they had a data opening.

05:27And I just happened to know the people who had that role.

05:29And I was like, hey, I know how to use Excel.

05:31And I got that job.

05:32And that kickstarted my career and kind of love for data.

05:35And then I just progressed as the years went on.

05:38Data analysis is dead.

05:39There are no more jobs in data analysis.

05:41You're wasting your time if you're applying to data analytics jobs.

05:44These are all things I've heard over the past six months or even a year.

05:47And it may seem like that just because of how bad the economy is

05:49and how bad the labor market is.

05:51But I want all of you to remember that this is cyclical.

05:53There are market cycles.

05:55This happened in 2008.

05:56This happened during the dot-com bust.

05:58Happened all throughout history.

05:59To remember that what goes down will come back up.

06:02This also includes the demand for data analyst jobs.

06:04The Bureau of Labor still predicts that data analyst jobs will grow by over 20% to the year 2030.

06:10While it is hard to get a job during this time, focus on upskilling yourself.

06:14Learn new technologies.

06:15Learn new skills.

06:16Be ready for when the market recovers.

06:18This also happened during 2020 during the pandemic.

06:20I've had job offers literally rescinded during that time period.

06:23And quite literally less than a year later during 2021, the tech market was booming.

06:27Tech is very versatile.

06:28And I don't see the demand going down anytime soon.

06:31So focus on what you can't control.

06:33And don't worry about what you can't.

06:34Fall out for more content.

06:35I think that is something that a lot of people don't think about.

06:37That there are good markets and then there are bad markets.

06:40And we've seen that even since, you know, the big tech boom kind of in the mid 2000s.

06:44We've seen these big cycles of hiring and firing and hiring and firing.

06:48And right now, just in our current economic conditions with how the economy is going,

06:52it looks like we are in a not hiring season.

06:56That is not to say that it will not pick up later on though.

06:59And so if you are investing in yourself and you're taking courses and you're learning things

07:02and you're trying to, you know, shift over to the data side of things in your current role,

07:05because I guarantee you a lot of the job seekers that are out there right now who can't get back

07:09into data or can't break into data are going to go and they're going to do something else.

07:13And then in a few years when hiring picks back up and there's a huge demand for it,

07:17there aren't going to be as many people lined up for those jobs.

07:20That means if you are upscaling and you're learning AI and you're learning SQL and Excel

07:23and Power BI and AWS and Azure and all these skills,

07:26there are going to be jobs down the line when the economy picks back up.

07:29I don't know who needs to hear this, but you need to stop judging people who are on the job

07:33search.

07:33You need to stop saying things like everybody's hiring or the job market's not tough.

07:38Unemployment is at an all time low or even worse.

07:41Why don't you just go get a job at Home Depot or McDonald's?

07:44Guys, I've been in recruiting for coming up to a decade and I've never

07:47seen job seekers struggle as much as they are right now.

07:51In fact, other than the last few years, over the past decade, it has been a candidate market.

07:56Most companies I've worked with have struggled to find good quality candidates,

07:59but in this market, they are not having that issue.

08:02Especially for corporate positions, they are getting thousands of applicants.

08:06That's why we're seeing longer rounds of interviews.

08:08That's why we're seeing more assessments.

08:10That's why we're seeing companies be really, really picky.

08:12And it's why we're seeing lowball offers going out right now.

08:15I personally haven't heard anyone say that we're in a good market, except for the government.

08:19This guy's in Canada, but in the US, our government, all they say is unemployment is low.

08:25Inflation is being maintained.

08:27I'm like, okay, there's some issues with how you're collecting your data or what you're actually looking

08:32at because nobody is saying that the economy is good right now.

08:36What's good is the stock market.

08:37It's reaching all time highs, but that is not a reflection of the economy as a whole.

08:41And he is absolutely right.

08:42When companies feel like they have the power, they have thousands of applicants.

08:45They can have them do more assessments.

08:47They can have more rounds of interviews.

08:49They can offer them less money.

08:50And in the end, that is not good for the employee.

08:53Even if you get the job, you may be making the same or less than a previous job,

08:57but you're supposed to be grateful for it because they offer you a job in this economy.

09:01Overall, 2025 is shaping up to be not a great year for hiring just in general,

09:06but in tech, especially if you are out there and you are looking for a job,

09:09I don't recommend looking at remote jobs right now.

09:12They are so oversaturated.

09:13So many people from around the world, not just where you live from around the world can apply

09:18for them.

09:18So I would be looking at local jobs.

09:20I'd be optimizing my resume.

09:22I'd be reaching out to recruiters and I'd be doing this like it was a full-time job.

09:25I have been in your shoes before desperately trying to get a job and randomly applying to jobs.

09:29Just never panned out for me.

09:31I got very few interviews.

09:32And then if I did get interviews, it was for jobs that I didn't know anything about.

09:36I had no real chance of getting that job.

09:38I don't know why I got the interview, but in this job market, that is what I recommend.

09:42Let me know what you think down in the comments.

09:43I am very curious to hear what you think on the job market and just the economy as a whole.

09:47If you liked this video, be sure to like and subscribe and I will see you in the next one.

10:02See you!

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