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Not the OP, but your definition of "falling off trees" and mine are very different if it took 200 applications to land a job. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just
by nocman 4y ago
Not the OP, but your definition of "falling off trees" and mine are very different if it took 200 applications to land a job.
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying I would never use that expression to describe it.
- fwsgonzo 4y agoIt's actually kind of soul sucking bad, and I have trouble coming to terms with that "this is just how it is now." I really do feel for those without a decent network.
- ghaff 4y agoI would consider sending out 200 applications (for someone with some experience to reasonably targeted openings) to be an extraordinarily high number. I doubt if I sent out that many form letter scattershot from pre-internet grad school. Certainly hasn't been the case since. To be sure, the few other jobs I've had have all come through personal connections.
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- nocman 4y agoI had just assumed that if someone was sending out 200 applications, it was pretty much the same resume going to all of them (no catering it to the individual interests of the employer) - with perhaps some exceptions to jobs the applicant was particularly interested in. I can't imagine sending out that many having spent large quantities of time on each one. [edited to fix typing the wrong word]
- ghaff 4y agoI would assume so as well although that may be the problem. Though I'm also open to the possibility that some companies just want to hire some number of developers with 3-5 years of experience in $TECHNOLOGY and aren't too fussy beyond that. In which case, it may indeed become more of a numbers game if a company is basically picking a handful of resumes at random that clear some minimum bar.
- anon50118810 4y agoOP here. When I think of an employer as desperate to hire, I think of it in the same way that I'm desperate to get more milk when I'm out of milk. I go to the store with milk on my mind, I pick from the few on offer, buy it and take it home. I don't need to taste test or anything like that. Of course everyone wants to be a premium brand but sometimes it just doesn't work out like that. A challenge is that most job listings are mostly "3-5 years of experience in $TECHNOLOGY," or rather there are so many $TECHNOLOGIES listed that almost no one is going to be an expert in all of them. It's difficult to tell from the outside whether they want someone who has experience in at least some of the core and can learn the rest, or whether they're holding out for the perfect candidate.