I've applied to 100s and I haven't even so much as received a fucking phone call. Do jobs even exist? What the fuck. Is the boomer adage of showing up at an office with your resume unironically the only way to do it?
I'm fucking 6 years out of engineering school and I've gotten a total of 3 interviews for engineering positions in my entire life. Am I supposed to kill myself with this college debt?
I just need 1 person to let me know I'm not just busting my resume into a void by applying on LinkedIn or whatever.
most job boards are completely useless, and I've found that even applying directly on the company's website doesn't get results
I actually have gotten interviews through directly contacting recruiters on Linkedin, though this was only after I had some professional experience already. When I was doing my first job hunt it was also fucking useless.
Once piece of advice that might help if Indeed and such are your only options is to make sure your resume matches the requirements of the posting you are applying to as closely as possible. The companies that hire using these platforms use an automated filtering system that looks for keywords and auto-rejects applications that don't match the text of the posting by some amount. When I started doing this, I started getting at least a few interviews from Indeed applications instead of literally zero.
450+ applications across all those websites and I finally got one. If you don't have any experience then you can always study a bit online and buff your resume.
Yeah, I've gotten a couple of jobs from LinkedIn. Put in hundreds of them, get 3 back is pretty standard.
Competition is a fuck
I've definitely gotten interviews on LinkedIn or whatever before from random people (probably bots) because I have the word "Engineer" in my profile. Honestly I think the "immediately apply to any remotely relevant position on LinkedIn and refresh the page every day" strategy probably works best. 1% chance of an interview on every application isn't too bad if you apply to 200 jobs.
That being said, the boomer show up with a resume shit will never work.
That being said, the boomer show up with a resume shit will never work.
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the boomer showing up with a resume shit is the best way to get entry to mid level jobs, not highly professional ones
I've gotten interviews from like zip recruoter or indeed I'm not am engineer though. Try reaching out to a recruiter. They suck but if you find one that knows you're industry it can work
I got several dishwashing offers from job boards. I would apply to all of them, have them call, and pick the one that had the best offer
I only applied to two jobs through indeed and got an interview from both and hired by one. Granted, I now work as a manager at a paint store, so it’s not glamorous, but I do make O.K.-ish money
I've sremoveded a few off of them over the years, but they were low level admin jobs in an ocean of ads for Amazon, warehouses, and call center sales. It really is a numbers game. Something can stick eventually.
I applied to like 15 places on glass door, got one rejection email and one phone call for an interview, ended up with a restaurant job. So it is possible, at least with shittier jobs.
I had a recruiter reach out via linkedin and that landed me my first job out of college. Extremely lucky not gonna lie.
But its fairly rare and you need to be niche for recruiters to find you or work with you to find a role.
I get solicited for jobs all the time by recruiters on linkedin.
