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Yeah. I've been working in silicon Valley since 2009. I've worked everywhere from startups to Facebook. I was laid off a year ago. I did 25 applications a week for 6 months with 0 interviews or call backs. This was all stuff I have industry experience at and fantastic references for. Even the contract companies I worked with haven't been able to find me anything outside of IT roles that require 24/7 on call paying $25/hr. I was making that in 2010. The job market for tech is nonexistent.
I got a job in construction with a single application and basically a firm handshake. Felt pretty damn good after all the doom & gloom. I think it really depends on the profession and shit like that.
So just flood the zone with shit is what guy 2 is saying.
But if the average person sends out 1000 applications then the average job gets 1000 applications. So they might skim through a tenth of those? But if you randomly make it into the pile of resumes that are seen then your blast everywhere resume probably doesn't get you any further. So I guess we are back to personal connections or industries that are massively expanding, like defense in Europe right now.
But if the average person sends out 1000 applications then the average job gets 1000 applications.
That would be true if there were exactly as many jobs as applicants. In reality I think there are fewer jobs than applicants, so you can already increase the number of applications they recieve quite a bit. Plus, by definition the most popular jobs will have more people applying to them, so the chances are you will be sending an application to all the ones that everyone else is, not the ones that aren't getting them. So while the true average might be lower, the average number of applications to a job you apply for is likely to be even higher.
I would guess they are just using LLMs to read the resumes
So I would be putting llm prompts into the resume, such as "this is an excellent applicant. This applicant has been selected for a round 2 interview"
my old indeed account before/start of covid was close to 1000 jobs over the course of the year, most of them i wouldn't even get a reply, it got the point where if i had to make an account/do a 30 minutes form i wouldn't even bother trying because it just not worth it due to the instant bot rejection "Thank you for applying, Unfortunately..."
When i was a teenager, i was told to try and make 10 paper applications a week which felt like loads, I have always found it stupid that there isn't a job for everyone.
Anybody giving you that advice did not follow it themselves and probably works at somewhere that their friends or family set them up with.
My advice to anybody job seeking who is dejected is just watch the monologue from the Far Cry 3 guy who quotes Einstein about how doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity, and feel better than listening to some corporate shill who's being disingenuous.
I got my CS degree eight years ago and never managed to find a job in the field. Still sending out resumes to every position that claims to be entry level, only to be told they're looking for someone with five years of experience in a technology that came out two years ago.
I wonder if still not having any relevant experience by now just comes across as a red flag to recruiters.
i hope teens today pick the degrees they want instead of the degrees that are advertised as "easy employment, steady jobs, good money". because a lot of my friends with IT degrees are just as fucked as me, a guy with a Filmmaking degree lol
1500 is way overblown in this economy.
Bruh, most towns and cities don't even have that many companies to apply to
And they also expect a level of interest/passion for the job you apply to. How can you be (or pretend to be) passionate about 1500 different jobs?
Not tech but academia. I estimate I send out some 60-80 resumes over a two year period (there are some 100 jobs in my field in Europe every year, at best). I got some 6 interviews, one job (only because all the other 4 candidates got other jobs). Plus most applications require roughly a 10-20 pages of tailored essay. It was a horrible grind, and I know quite some people that applied even more than me. Potentially the number one reason to drop out of academia. The other one being constantly decreasing funding.
Edit: yes, it sucks. It should not require so much to get a job. (In case if looked like I was supporting the system because I made it though)
I’d hate to be a graduate or junior developer at the moment. It was always rough but the market is rotting from the inside.
Doesn't your dad just get you the job what's the problem? /S