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I'm curious where you find the time to apply to 500 jobs. You're not alone, I know, but is quality not better than quantity? Are those applications tailored to
by maxehmookau 2y ago
I'm curious where you find the time to apply to 500 jobs. You're not alone, I know, but is quality not better than quantity? Are those applications tailored to the jobs you're applying for?
Admittedly I've not job hunted recently. Are things really just that bad?
- browningstreet 2y agoYes. I applied 4-5 days/week for 16 months and finally got a fully remote job, with a salary commensurate with what I had before. The job I applied for was alive for less than 24 hours. They got 1,000 resumes. I just happened to be first and early. I applied and interviewed at FAANG too.. they said they got 1,000+ resumes on day one alone, and they were screening 20 candidates for the one role. If you've sent 500 resumes.. that's not enough / "a lot" nowadays.
- EGreg 2y ago“First”? Or “early”? It seems to me that most job posters don’t even look at resumes anymore. I tested this by having logs for when the resume link is hit
- browningstreet 2y agoI don’t doubt it. But most of my successful applications were either via indeed or submitted directly as uploaded PDFs to FAANG corp recruiting websites. For that reason I wasn’t tracking external PDF links. Those were getting me nothing…
- pelagicAustral 2y agoJust a few applications every day, Monday to Sunday, it all adds up in the end... Except that the result, in this case, is zero.
- EGreg 2y agoWhy not have an AI do it? Because it doesn’t know your history, right? So just write up your history and have the AI remix it and fill out forms.