| I found LinkedIn’s Easy Apply to be remarkably easy to spam a hundred or so applications in a week and it lets you see if your application has been viewed or resume downloaded. Unfortunately hundreds of other people found it just as easy. This is why I never blindly submit my resume to an ATS. I only did it this time because I was unemployed (for two weeks) and had nothing better to do. The five opportunities that led to interviews were still based on good old fashion networking 1. A full time offer (didn’t accept) and a side contract (did accept) based on referrals from former managers 2. Two interviews based on reaching out to the internal recruiter for positions I was objectively the best person on the market for - I was a major contributor to an open source official “AWS Solution” they were implementing and modifying. I accepted an offer. 3. Responding to a recruiter he reached out to me. There was some miscommunication about the role. The team thought the client wanted someone “local” to the US since their whole team was in India. They wanted someone local to the city - I declined. Out of the 100 applications I randomly spammed, most didn’t get around to even looking at my application and only four actually downloaded my resume. |