Rant: Job platforms in 2025 are a soul-sucking mess

Folks, I woke up yesterday and frantically started to apply to jobs. And my experience was nothing short of horror. I will talk about every platform:

Naukri:

I apply for a job and then my resume gets blasted all over the place with my personal information (phone number) and I start getting unsolicited phone calls from shady recruiters about jobs that have nothing to do with my industry. They full on harass me. Fist they call, then ten seconds later, I get an email, then they send me a TEXT message.

LinkedIn:

Easy apply is a joke. Everyone pushes the button and done. Or, you push it and then go through prompts, some of which expect you to enter the SAME info as on your resume, or write a cover letter, right in the box, and I can't move the box to read the job description so I can make sure I address it in the asinine cover letter. Or it asks stupid questions, like "Do you have experience doing this ultra specific task in this ultra specific industry? Yes or no." You put "no" and you might as well have not applied at all.

Overall:

No salary ranges. Not being clear about remote/hybrid/onsite expectations. Listing EVERY god damn skill under the sun. Graphic Require 30 years experience, fresh graduate, entry level. 3L per year, based on experience....

Recruiters who post jobs but don't say who it's for until they get their grubby hands on your resume then ghost you after the initial phone call. They get their commission or whatever. You don't matter.

Ghost jobs. That's another problem altogether. My assumption is that 1 out of 2 jobs listed on the platforms is not even open. Companies post them just for advertising.