Quiet On the Homefront...Not Really

So although its been a little quiet over here, my life hasn't! Let's just say I've been trying to get a handle on my next career move and to what I'm finding is, this current job market is not great. I'm still working at my current job but our team is getting smaller and the project that I'm working on is starting to see the sunset on the horizon within the next year or so.

Although I would love to stay with my current employer, they may or may not have work for me after this project is closed up. So being the proactive person I am I started looking at the job market, and I'm finding there are many jobs that are saying Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience. I have the experience, just not the bachelors. I figured since this is OR statement it should be treated with one or the other.

However I'm personally seeing and thinking that its a filter more than and OR. Since I don't have a bachelor's degree, I'm in the second bucket and candidates that do have a bachelor's degree are put into the first bucket. Although my experience may trump bachelor degree candidates my resume isn't being looked at because the employer is able to find a match within the first bucket of candidates.

It may also be that being in the technology sector as of right now is flooded with layoffs from big corporations to government. AI and automation is also a large factor that jobs are being cut. So yeah... not a great time to be looking. 🤔

So I jumped on my ATV and took off on a trail for a bit, thinking about my next move... I find it silly, but I'm looking towards working on a bachelor's degree with the idea that I'll at least be put into the first bucket of candidates. It's kind of dumb, but I have appeared to hit the ceiling and if I want to move up in my career this maybe the only way to at least get noticed. It's not a guarantee either, I'm not expecting my inbox to have thousands of offers once I get a bachelor degree, however it will "check the box" and that's closer than being put into the second bucket.