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Lombard Luxembourg online job application or not?

Yes l am still applying online, in Luxembourg of all places; ADEM the national agency instructed me to apply on line... Its been nearly six months ans l am becoming surer by the minute that this job hunt is a waste of time. Something intesting happened today, l applied for an entry level job with Lombard, an insurance company which reprsents itself as a financial services provider. Well within three hours my application was rejected. So l wrote an email stating, that l think it was a fake job offer, and asked whom l had to pay for a job. That is another story in Luxembourg. So Jobs.lu, which is based in Belgium phones my mother, with a blank or hidden phone number and shouted at her, telling her that l should not make idle threats as l would be black listed, and they don't hire arabs, as the phone came from the middle east. This is racist ofcourse, but more concerning, appart from data mining, the nature of the threats. This social media job hunting industry is very sensitive... Too sensitive... Very white / European, they have a cultural tradition of hiding themselces when you get too close to the truth... But l wonder what that truth is... What are they hiding. I am not sure if l am actually looking for work, or part of some social media charade, a charleton whose strings are being pulled....

Anyway another mysterious and interesting thing happened last week... l was at one of the many Luxembourg musuems, that is whaqt you do for fun when you are unemployed and sober. l had an opportunity to eavesdrop, where l heard two men discuss with a lady that they could offer her a job for 6,000 to 8,000 euro, they would prepare the CV, and prepare her for the interview with the boss, and train her for 3 months. This was a 12-18 month CDI job, non-permanent position. So that is how you find work in Luxembourg it seems... Or l may be misled. To my knowledge it is illegal to sell jobs here... But perhaps it may happen.

Anyway the job hunt is going abysmally here in luxembourg... 

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