[dilaver]

"When I go into ‘interviewing mode’ I stop working on side projects, I stop visiting bs sites like reddit, news sites, and even HN. If it isn’t going to help you get that job just cut it from your life. Focus intensely on learning and writing job applications until you get there. This process isn’t fun, why drag it out any longer than you need to."

[gizmo686]

That ... doesn't sound healthy, or productive. It is well established that there are diminishing returns to working longer hours on a task, even to the point of negative marginal utility. This is not true just for knowledge workers but, surprisingly, also held for factory workers during the industrial revolution. Not to mention the health impacts of spending so much time on a singular (soul crushing IMO) task.

[viraptor]

I don't think it applies here. If you work on one task with one goal for longer, you do get exhausted. But I don't think it applies to repetitive tasks with different targets each time. You cannot "apply harder to the same company", but if you spend more time and apply to 30 rather than 20, you get a big improvement in the chance for positive response.

[zubairq]

actually trying an unproductive technique is what is wrong. You need to be full time and using a productive technique, so I do agree that just sending out CVs 24 hours a day is wrong

[zubairq]

actually this is the right advice. To find a job IS a full time job. No one wants to hear it but after running NemCV and getting data on around 15,000 job hunters, I saw that the people who treat looking for a job AS A JOB get a job over 10x faster than those who don't... Here is a link to the meetup we have run for 5 years too:

http://www.meetup.com/get-your-dream-job/

[pmiller2]

It's too bad I'm thousands of miles away from you. I would go to that meetup. :)

[zubairq]

Maybe we could do a video session one day if you want to set up a video with a local meetup there and you don't mind broadcasting it publicly.