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Job Seeker's 500 Applications Reveal Frustration in Labor Market
More people seeking employment are leveraging technology to mass apply to open positions and many applicants struggle to find work.
Cris Spector, a 35 year old from outside Trenton, New Jersey, says he applied to more than 500 roles after losing his job in March.
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It’s part flex, part gripe, and increasingly, part and parcel of the job search process. It goes a little something like this:
“I applied to 500 jobs.”