Just hearing the stories of people with hundreds and thousands of applications and barely any callbacks, then getting ghosted again. Does it even make sense to spend all that time for cold applications?
Tailor your resume specifically for the job if you go this route.
Go ahead, hop in the water 🏞️ ... since you wanna be a silly goose, go for a swim. Whoever the hell is actually adjusting their resume per-application is insane. Just look at all the jobs you want and match up your skills on your resume to cover and exceed those requirements via personal projects and any experience you can gather. If you're already more than ideal as a candidate, you have more than what they're asking for, you shouldn't be wasting hours adjusting your resume for each job posting. Honestly, for big tech, referrals are almost necessary, otherwise you're going to take a very long time. I will say for non-big tech, I've never landed a job via referral
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Find the recruiter for your role on linkedin and reach out directly! This has way higher chances of getting a follow up because some people just spam 1000 applications a day. This has gotten me all my jobs and many interviews throughout my career.
Also you need to follow up with recruiters. Don’t try and play hard to get or think you’re being annoying. If they ghost you, literally just send them an email once a week until they respond.
Thanks for your advice. I’m trying, however either they don’t respond since they’re probably getting spammed from other applicants as well, or they say I should apply on the website lol
I just applied to 1 job over the weekend that seemed like a good fit. They reached out today to schedule a call. So I guess I'm 1 for 1 with cold applications. That being said usually I let recruiters reach out to me.
I know highly qualified people who sent out hundreds of applications, so I guess you’re lucky or very well qualified in whatever niche you’re working in
Yeah I think it's more of a niche thing. And it's also not one of the faang. So that probably helps it's just a s&p 500 tech company. I've definitely heard faang it helps to have a referral.
If you’re unemployed and not cold submitting you’re out of your mind
This. Some people feel entitled, idk what they think they're doing not going down every possible avenue to land jobs
I do go down every avenue, I’m just wondering if it’s a waste of time since I think it’s a weird culture to ghost people like this. Thanks for your opinion :-)
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Just got a job on cold apply, 2nd one in 5 years. Be smart and targeted about it, apply consistently, but focus on referrals
I cold apply and cold linkedin message to recruiters and hiring managers. In this day and age you have to do everything possible to secure a job. I send so many linkedin requests I reach the 200 weekly limit
Every job I ever got was a cold app.
What about the current job market the last 12 months?
Still works