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Ask HN: I have applied to 1000 jobs from Sep. 2023 is it that bad?

39 点作者 dvcoolarun大约 1 年前
I&#x27;m unsure whether the HN community will upvote or downvote this post.<p>I&#x27;ve been applying to a lot of jobs, but most recruiters here in India say they can&#x27;t move forward with my profile because of my freelancing background (which I used to do due to personal&#x2F;family issues). However, I now want to transition to a full-time role.<p>In the past, I&#x27;ve been able to code and build decent projects, and I have experience working with Frontend&#x2F;Backend technologies such as React, Python, and Django.<p>I&#x27;m particularly interested in working with startups, but most European startups I&#x27;ve applied to with custom cover letters have rejected my profile.<p>If any kind soul could help me, I&#x27;ve attached my CV here:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;scl&#x2F;fi&#x2F;kn0tc86x1a53cpaomfgr7&#x2F;Arun-Frontend.pdf?rlkey=drilldxdhzaz952k5720tusl8&amp;dl=0

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solardev大约 1 年前
It&#x27;s ridiculously hard right now because you&#x27;re competing with literal hordes of ex-FAANGers with a ton of full-time big-name experience and expertise, all in a race to the bottom. My colleagues (in the USA) were laid off months ago and sent out hundreds of applications too and have been ghosted by most of them.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, I know that doesn&#x27;t help, but it&#x27;s just to say... you&#x27;re not alone :( The market has changed dramatically since last year.
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mv4大约 1 年前
The market is awful right now. You are not only competing with the unemployed ex-FAANG, you are competing with internal candidates as well (layoffs still ongoing).
tareqak大约 1 年前
Some numbers for context&#x2F;sense of foreboding: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;layoffs.fyi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;layoffs.fyi&#x2F;</a><p>159 tech companies w&#x2F; layoffs ∙ 41793 employees laid off in 2024 (as of 8:26 AM PST February 20, 2024).<p>I have been applying on and off for much longer with no success (I would stop because I would just get discouraged after a while).
Brajeshwar大约 1 年前
Hey, not sure if I can help immediately but let&#x27;s talk and see where this leads. Sent you an email.<p>Almost all the demos mentioned or led from your resume do not work. I&#x27;d suggest fixing them. This might be your chance.<p>Update your resume to include the recently HN popular app you did <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dvcoolarun&#x2F;web2pdf">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dvcoolarun&#x2F;web2pdf</a><p>btw, nothing derogatory but a professional curiosity -- are you going to continue to go by &quot;CoolArun&quot; everywhere or do you plan to transition to a normal one soon! ;-)
1letterunixname大约 1 年前
Here&#x27;s some unsolicited feedback. Sorry that it&#x27;s public, but I hope this helps other people as 1:N broadcast format:<p>- Bold is good, but it&#x27;s too much.<p>- Never use underline in a CV. Lines and boxes are OK if they break up sections.<p>- Color tends to get lost and could trip-up some document scanners.<p>- Two columns is kind of cramped and doesn&#x27;t work well with résumé scanners. Instead, put that stuff at the bottom.<p>- Center name (first and last), title, and city. Make the intro tagline shorter.<p>- English copy writing - Reduce use of hollow adjectives and adverbs like &quot;actually&quot;, &quot;really&quot;, &quot;especially&quot;.<p>- Tech differentiation - Name specific, hot frameworks beyond just what everyone else lists. 2010-2015 it was C++, Java, JavaScript, and SQL on every darn résumé. Zzz.<p>- Business impact - Excellent! This is what makes software engineers valuable. Try to introduce specific cases where you solved a problem. Especially gold moments are where you saved the business significant money, shipped features fast, or were the hero.<p>- Github links - Awesome! If it finally makes its way to a real hiring manager who coded or a tech lead, they can get a sense of how clean and understandable your code is.<p>Remember that if you give a technical recruiter your résumé in .docx or .txt format, they&#x27;re probably going to edit it before sending it on to hiring companies. Please ask the recruiter to let you see and approve changes because you don&#x27;t want them to exaggerate or lie about your qualifications.<p>Also, you can disintermediate the role of a technical recruiter if you have good social and sales skills to work with HR and hiring managers of hiring companies. This requires a bit more ambiguity navigation, patience, assertiveness, and finesse than is customarily expected of a job candidate. Remember that if you go this route, you&#x27;re there to deliver a helpful, assertive, customer service approach facilitating their hiring pipeline to fill their open jd&#x27;s&#x2F;req&#x27;s. Follow-up, ping gently with exponential backoff, and inject a little humor to keep life interesting.<p>Bring good vibes and find a situation that&#x27;s most interesting and comfortable for all.<p>PS: What really helped me early on was a life lesson where my parents forced me to sell candy bars door-to-door in residential neighborhoods. Thousands of doors. Rejection is a muscle to be built up with numbers while being careful to create and nudge interest towards &quot;yes&quot; with care.
beardyw大约 1 年前
As a freelancer I have been asked if I would go on the payroll. Is that a route?
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1letterunixname大约 1 年前
Then ditch the freelancing background. Come across as a loyal, corporate clone.
OsintOtter69大约 1 年前
Yes. It’s fucking horrible. I work at a FAANG company and all the ones who got laid off last year are just flooding the market. Tough times my friend. I wish you the best of luck.
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