| I have landed a new job recently and during the job search I also did statistics. For context I am 30 year old french, had my one and only job for 6 years doing
PHP (sf2, postgres, redis, solr, rest), I have a 2 year degree where in europe
most people have a 3 to 5 year degree. Here is my statistics to applying to ads on indeed: France:
- application: 40
- noreply: 20
- phone screen: 7
- interview: 3
- landed: 1 Luxembourg (french speaking):
- application: 18
- noreply: 9
- phone screen: 5
- interview: 1
- landed: 1 Remote (europe):
- application: 7
- noreply: 5
- interview: 0 Spain(5)/Portugal(2)/Uk(2)/Switzerland(1):
- application: 10
- noreply: 1
- phone screen: 5
- interview: 3
- landed: 0 My takes over are: - Cover letter doesn't increase my chances of having a reply. - Changing my CV after the feedback of a recruiter (he asked me to lie by
omission) didn't improved my chances. - I don't apply to company I recognize the name. If I do lots of people do too
therefor there is a lots of better candidates than me and the company can
afford to run me through many interviews. - I don't apply to company that do more than 1 interview, they have too much
time on their hands to find a reason not to hire me. - I don't apply to company that specifically ask for a 3 to 5 years degree even if
I fit the rest of the requirements. This last job search (the one that landed my first job 7 years ago wasn't a
bliss either) made me feel extremely under-confident in my capacity to grow my
career even having a job. |