[koliber]

The market did get tougher. It's not you. That means that you have to put considerably more effort, or a different kind of effort, to land a job.

Think about landing the job as a numbers game. There are a bunch of steps, connected into a pipeline. Roughly, it's 1. find offers 2. apply 3. prescreen 4. interviews 5. offer

At each step of the pipeline, you will have fewer and fewer offers that will remain. Your goal is to bring one through the whole pipeline.

Think about the pass rate. Say you got 3 offers, but two were bad, and you accepted one. That's 33% pass rate.

You got invited for interviews at 20 firms, and three ended in offers. That's a 15% pass rate.

You were sent 30 pre-screening questionnaires, and got 20 interview invites. 66% pass rate.

You applied to 100 jobs, and got 30 pre-screening questionnaires. 30% pass rate.

These numbers are made up. You can work on any step of the pipeline and try to do things differently to see if it improves your pass rate.

In your case, are you not getting enough interviews? Or are you getting tons of interviews but are not getting any offers (or are not getting invited to a 2nd interview).

If it's the first, maybe you need to devote attention to your resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile.

If it's the latter, maybe better interview prep or coaching will help.

It's a numbers game. You have to keep trying, but also tweak the steps along the way.

If you have any concrete questions or would like some help, my contact info is in my profile.

[dejaydev]

I agree entirely, it's important to remember you're not alone in the struggle and it is 100% not personal. I started logging the jobs I've applied for and how they're going with a slightly modified version of the Notion template[0] to track what titles and companies I get best the responses from to help track the numbers.

[0] https://www.notion.so/templates/job-applications

[achempion]

This approach is logical and straightforward. The main flaw is that it treats all job opportunities equally. Life is not numbers, and the job you have or find will demand a significant portion of your life.

This means that you can spend more effort on getting the job that fits you the best and none or less effort for other opportunities.

[bryanlarsen]

No matter how logical and straightforward an approach is, human implementations of an approach are never completely logical and straightforward.

Whether implicit or explicit, humans will short-change or sabotage job applications they don't want.

[hobs]

Agreed - my single biggest win for recruiters to show up in my inbox is to google search linkedin for the top result for the job role I am targeting, and then change my profile (in an honest way) to ape that as much as possible, pass rate is about top and bottom of funnel.

[pluc]

This is what I do. Since your resume is your point of entry, if you're not hooking anything then it's easy to say the issue is that you didn't manage to grab the attention/interest of whoever filtered those resumes. I change my resume every week now, unless I got good results from a previous version. No luck so far.