I'm from asia and I'm relatively young (22) and it's literally fucking impossible to get a job. I've been trying everything and I don't understand why it's extremely difficult to land a no-skill minimum-wage job. It's fucking ridiculous and it's tiring me out I'm in a terrible financial situation right now. I live with my mother and we're struggling to scrape by now, I live off noodles and pasta (I've lost about 5kg just this month) so anyway to make some money would be great. So Bros, I ask you, how do I get a job, or better yet, how do I make money as a broke, skillness loser such as myself? Because I am flat-ass BROKE
This was me from 18-22 in the US. I second what a lot others say: Lie on job applications, lie on resumes, lie in interviews. What’s the worst that could happen? They don’t hire you? You get a paycheck for a few months and then they fire you? Lying is absolutely paramount to breaking into the job market.
they're gonna start imprisoning people who lie on their resumes so they can have more slave labor
I'm in my mid-twenties and I'm still lying on my resume. I see it no different than sneaking vegetables into my picky eater child who refuses to eat anything except for brownies. If I don't feed him I go to jail, and if I don't get a job I starve to death. It's really the picky eater's fault for being so spoiled.
Like you said, we've reached a point where its commonly said you "break into" the workforce as if millennials were never meant to work and strike out on their own in the first place, and are never truly welcome in the workforce. This is true to some extent, as I've attended some pork conferences in hopes of "networking" (I hate the term), and they genuinely believe ALL of humanity should be their own individual business owners. So, in a sense, the porks want communism too but just on their terms.
What are the things one can get away with lying about? I imagine there are things the employers normally do check.
The only people who actually check your education are governments and universities/schools.
Big companies will only verify that you worked there, what time period, and what your title was. They usually avoid making any qualitative statements to avoid exposing themselves to lawsuits. Hell, my current employer uses a third party service so no one who knows anything about whether or not I was a good worker will even interact with a new employer.
So, if you just barely squeaked out a degree it’s the same as if you graduated with honors. Dropped out of highschool? No you didn’t. Got fired for organizing a union? No, you just wanted to move on to something more challenging.