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Just to give you my own experience right now, I literally just accepted a new job yesterday after job hunting for 3-ish weeks. I had multiple job interviews, e
by bussierem 4y ago
Just to give you my own experience right now, I literally just accepted a new job yesterday after job hunting for 3-ish weeks. I had multiple job interviews, even more job interview requests.
I don't say this to brag, so I apologize if it comes off that way. I just wanted to give you what could be a cancelling-out anecdata point to your own experience. I wouldn't let it get you down too much. Keep hunting and keep applying, I doubt the recession will get to a point where NOBODY is hiring :)
If you need another job board resource, try out "Hired.com". Here's a referral link from me for it (full disclosure I benefit from you using this!):
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I found it to be an extremely effective tool for finding interviews, or I wouldn't recommend it.
I wish you all the luck possible on your hunt; Sometimes it's just that -- luck. Just keep perservering and don't be too proud to ask for help from anyone and everyone!
- jghn 4y agoYou're right. We've only hit "not as good as it has been of late" phase. Also a lot of newer people have probably never experienced a bad job market, so even this is concerning. It can get a lot worse. We'll see what happens, but there's good reason for people to be concerned about this happening. I think it's fine for people to be asking for advice on how to approach here.
- bussierem 4y agoTotally agree with you on that account, I don't fault OP for asking this at all! Just wanted to put my 2¢ in here too. I hope OP gets plenty of luck and assistance with their search! It's gonna be rough for a bit, but it's like with the market. If you think it's bad right now, just zoom out a bit. Even with things slumping a bit, we're still in a pretty good job market in our industry.
- cableshaft 4y agoGot my last job thanks to Hired. It was my first time using it, and I had a good experience. I'd use it again. Main benefit of Hired is I could set my target salary ahead of time and the people contacting me knew and agreed to what I was looking for, instead of having to dig it out of the interview process elsewhere, and I still had about 10 companies reach out to me through there. In comparison, pretty much every recruiter that contacted me on LinkedIn were giving me ranges at least 20% lower.
- bussierem 4y ago@dang If you wouldn't mind helping a guy out, I need to remove this link from my post but I cannot edit the post anymore. I don't believe I was supposed to post the link on HN like this and I need to prevent others from clicking it please... TO ANYONE ELSE: Please don't click that link anymore!
- jsnell 4y agoSending an email to <hn@ycombinator.com> will give much better odds of dang or another mod noticing this in time.
- bussierem 4y agothanks! done.
- aetherspawn 4y agoI didn't even notice the link until you told me not to click it, and then you bet I noticed it!
- OJFord 4y agoWent to sign up on your and sibling (to mine) comment's recommendation; I'm pretty sure this is not compliant: > You agree to receive subsequent email and third-party communications, which you may opt out of, or unsubscribe from, at any time. (On trying to proceed without ticking:) > You must opt in to proceed