[wrestlerman]

Based on my experience this is very true. It's very annoying when you want to find a job, but you don't want to be a sucker, so you end up looking for a job for a long time. I don't get it. You want to hire someone talented or smart, obviously, you are gonna have to pay them good money. What's the problem with that? I'm sure they will bring much more value than a usual sucker.

Personal story ahead. I've been looking for a job for around two months already. I'm Ruby/JS dev, so there are a few offers I can choose from. The problem is, half of that offers pay very little. Based on my experience, related to working with other people and to my previous salaries, I'd be a sucker to apply to those cheap offers. What I'm even more afraid is the people I'd work with. I'm pretty young and ambitious and I learn fast and I want to learn a lot, but if you don't have a good mentor you are not gonna learn that much.

Unfortunately, the offers, that interest me, require much more experience than I have. I doubt that I'd have a real problem with adapting and doing the job unwell. But I don't even get invited to any interview from that offers, because my CV has one year or two years of experience less than they expect :( How can I show that I could be a good fit then?

I know it's not that much related to the topic, but I've been a bit frustrated.

[sokoloff]

The advice is fairly obvious (or at least is the default course you're likely to take anyway): just keep at it. If someone really cares about the difference between 24 and 36 months of experience, you probably don't want to work there anyway...

[wrestlerman]

Yea, I know you are right. Still, it sucks that there is mindset like that...

[bitcoinmoney]

Dude, get those jobs and leave in 6 months. They don’t pay you enough? Then do 8-5 and still look for jobs. Not paying you your market rate means you are already a flight risk.

[burlesona]

Where are you located?

[wrestlerman]

I'm located in EU. I think this is part of the problem. Based on my job search, I've noticed that there is much more (interesting) jobs in USA.

[burlesona]

Yeah. I moved to the Bay Area for an interesting gig, and now I get 3-5 recruiter pitches a day, many of which are from interesting companies. Same Ruby/Js background. It’s so much recruiting it’s gone from amazing to annoying actually, but it’s a good problem to have. If you can find a way to get here I think you’ll have an easy time finding a nice job.