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You were a good fit for 100+ roles? As someone who hired many developers and scanned thousands of CVs - I don't know how you applied for a job - but this does
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
You were a good fit for 100+ roles?
As someone who hired many developers and scanned thousands of CVs - I don't know how you applied for a job - but this does not sound right.
I recommend everyone to spend some hours to curate their CV for each job and the application letter to each job, with finding out what is important to the company, their language, their challenges etc. Just like a sales rep would. If you take 1h for every application to prepare this would take several weeks of preparations for 100+ roles.
The hiring manager needs to think: Why did this person not apply earlier, they are perfect!
Not saying you did this, but sending the same CV and application to 100+ open positions is just like sending sales spam out. And when people do not put effort into their application, why should I put effort into rejecting them? I also just ignore mass applications.
Funny you mention LinkedIn, from which I seldom get good applications just mass spamming ones.