The weirdest part about hiring websites is how exhausting they’ve become for both candidates and employers.

People joke about job hunting, but tbh I think a lot of candidates are genuinely burning out mentally from the process now.
Applying itself feels like a second job.
Uploading resumes.
Re-entering the same information manually.
Writing custom answers.
Doing assessments.
Getting ghosted.
Repeating the cycle every night after work.
And the emotional part gets overlooked so much.
Imagine applying to 200+ jobs and hearing almost nothing back except automated rejection emails at 2am.
I had one candidate tell me:
“I don’t even feel rejected anymore, I just feel numb.”
That honestly stayed with me.
Because most candidates aren’t lazy or entitled like the internet sometimes makes them sound.
They’re tired.
Tired of feeling invisible.
Tired of fake “urgent hiring” posts.
Tired of investing energy into processes that don’t even acknowledge them as humans sometimes.
And honestly… recruiters are struggling too, just differently.
One opening gets thousands of applications now.
Good candidates get buried under mass applications, AI resumes, spam applications, referral stacking, automated Easy Apply floods.
Recruiters physically cannot review everything properly anymore even if they want to.
So candidates feel ignored.
Recruiters feel overwhelmed.
Hiring managers get frustrated.
And everyone starts blaming each other.
The whole system feels emotionally broken lately.
I genuinely think most people on both sides are trying.
But hiring websites somehow turned recruiting into a volume game instead of a human one.