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by kypro
857 days ago
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This is what I thought early last year when people were saying they couldn't find jobs, but after having some experience with the job market earlier this year it was absolutely brutal. I have 15 years professional experience, which for this field is quite a lot. I don't think people here with jobs even understand how bad it is. My whole career I've always been in high demand. I've always got multiple offers when looking for work. I rarely ever get ghosted. Looking for a job has just always been extremely easy. However, right now I'd probably need to apply for 20+ roles just get a single call back. I might need to apply for 50 roles to to get an interview. To your point on "just call someone" this has been happening. People are texting me and sending me LinkedIn messages constantly at the moment. I don't really know what people expect... Most people you know are probably not in a position where they can convince their company to just hire someone on recommendation and few companies are hiring anyway. At best they can say, "yeah, my company is hiring", but you're still going to be put into a pile of 300+ other people applying for the same role. |
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Really bad timing for some other life events that took me out of and brought me back to the market now.
I’ve stretched my network. All the companies in it are laying off or have frozen hiring. Connections themselves are unmotivated and/or trying to find more secure jobs, too (are they out there?).
All my close recruiting buddies that have landed me lots of interviews and roles in the past have nothing.
I have significant experience. Doesn’t seem to be helping. I’ve never experienced anything like this. Even in 2008, when I only had a handful of years under my belt, I found a new gig pretty easily.
I’m trying to figure out how to adapt to… whatever this is, so I can figure out the meta game and escape it. So far, no dice.
I wish you the best, along with everyone else in this boat.