{"id":84380,"date":"2025-12-30T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:09:20","slug":"desperate-job-seekers-use-dating-apps-to-get-interviews-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84380\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate job seekers use dating apps to get interviews, referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desperate job seekers are ditching LinkedIn in favor of a new networking source \u2013 dating apps.<\/p>\n

About a third of dating app users said they had looked for matches based on the prospect of getting career help from them, according to a ResumeBuilder.com survey<\/a> of 2,225 US dating site users.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Across apps like Tinder, Bumble and Facebook Dating, users hunted for matches working specific roles or at certain desirable companies \u2013 with many claiming they were motivated by a difficult job market.<\/p>\n

About a third of dating app users said they had looked for matches based on potential career help, according to a ResumeBuilder.com survey. djile \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Tiffany Chau, 20, a junior at California College of the Arts, used her Hinge profile to find relevant connections as she searched for a product-design internship.<\/p>\n

One of her dates brought her to a Halloween party where she met someone who had recently interviewed at Accenture and got some tips from the person, according to a Bloomberg report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like my approach to the dating apps is it being another networking platform like everything else, like Instagram or LinkedIn,\u201d Chau told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Job hunters are growing frustrated with more traditional options, as sites like LinkedIn see an overwhelming number of applications and many employers turn to AI bots to screen resumes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate jumped to 4.6%<\/a> in November, its highest level since September 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n

For workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree, the unemployment rate rose to 2.9% \u2013 up from 2.5% the previous year.<\/p>\n

Across apps like Tinder, Bumble and Facebook Dating, users hunted for matches working specific roles or at certain desirable companies. Studio Romantic \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The labor market has shown several other signs of underlying weakness, like slowing wage growth, more people who have been out of work for more than six months and a higher unemployment rate among young people ages 20 to 24.<\/p>\n

Alex Xiao is just 18 but is a director of Ditto AI, a dating app startup for college students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Xiao, an analytics student at University of California, Berkeley, said he\u2019s had multiple matches online with people who were looking for a job \u2013 not a date.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of connection in general just boils down to: \u2018How can you help me further my career?\u2019\u201d he told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

He said some people just outright asked him for a job after seeing his job title \u2013 \u201cAnd I\u2019m like: \u2018Bro.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest job-hunting trend is consistent across age groups \u2013 and reaps fairly successful results, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

The unemployment rate jumped to 4.6% in November, its highest level since September 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Kien \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Among those who used dating apps for job-seeking purposes, 43% gained mentorship or career advice, 39% landed an interview, 37% received a referral or lead and 37% received an offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only 10% said they didn\u2019t see any of these outcomes.<\/p>\n

One survey participant called the new job-hunting practice \u201cweird but effective,\u201d while another said, \u201cIt worked, but you need the audacity to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely weird,\u201d a third respondent said. \u201cFeels like the system is so broken that folks have to resort to doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desperate job seekers are ditching LinkedIn in favor of a new networking source \u2013 dating apps. About a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,27042,41229,41230,9,11,10,4037],"class_list":{"0":"post-84380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dating-apps","10":"tag-job-search","11":"tag-linkedin","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-unemployment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}