The unpaid ‘work trial’ is the new job-market tax on candidates who can least afford it

Prepare your “working hard or hardly working?” quippy response: Companies want you to role-play as an employee before they finalize your offer letter.

Work trials aren’t brand new, especially in more technical fields, but companies are increasingly leaning on them to find qualified candidates in a job market flooded with AI-optimized résumés and cover letters:

It could be an unpaid mock task you complete off-site that mirrors what you’d do on the job.

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