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Congrats on the business, I hope this inspires others to pursue their dreams. Since you mentioned a specific number of applications (60+), I just wanted to sha
by rglynn 2y ago
Congrats on the business, I hope this inspires others to pursue their dreams.
Since you mentioned a specific number of applications (60+), I just wanted to share my job hunt story. When I was last looking for a role (8 months ago), I started out thinking 5 applications a day was good, but then I spoke with an industry mentor, and he laughed me off saying that wasn't close to enough. Turns out he was right.
On his recommendation I started aiming for 50 a day. At first it's very slow, but you build up a corpus of cover letters and other material to submit applications.
This would have been easier if I was employed at the time, since so many places auto-reject if you aren't currently employed. This was also looking for fully-remote in APAC, which has far fewer opportunities than other regions/timezones.
And you might say "but I don't want to work for all these companies" and I would agree. But provided you are applying for a role that you are at least curious about, those ones that are not great fits can provide good interview practice.
- theonething 2y ago> since so many places auto-reject if you aren't currently employed. That really happens? How do you know they do that? I'm not doubting you, but I've never heard of that before.
- anal_reactor 2y agoYou can see a similar thing in dating. People tend to be more attracted to people who already have relationships, because they're "prescreened"