[codingdave]

Pretty freaking terrible. I've never before had to send out more than a handful of resumes to get a new job... but right now I'm getting nothing back. Well, not quite nothing - I've gotten a few recruiters asking me to commute 2 hours for hourly body shop gigs. But nothing realistic.

My advice is to just keep working on it - send out resumes, write cover letters for the ones that look promising, A/B test different resume formats, and just keep at it. Something will work eventually.

[RussianCow]

> A/B test different resume formats

I've heard this advice a few times now, but how can you possibly know whether any differences in your resume actually result in different outcomes? Unless you notice a really extreme difference in success rate over a long period of time, it seems like the sample size is just too small to draw any conclusions.

[codingdave]

I do it via LinkedIn - I track how many views and search hits I get in a week, then switch up the resume, see if I get more the next week.

I have zero guarantee that this works, btw. But I figure if I'm not getting the results I want, I may as well change things up and see if anything changes.