I have submitted many job applications to different companies, but I keep getting rejection emails every week. Looks like my resume is getting through their Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), but their HR people seem to be rejecting my applications. My resume literally meets all the qualifications and requirements that are described on the job postings. I also took a few resume writing courses, and I believe my resume formats and contents should be all in good shape. I don't understand why I am not getting any interviews. How is your job search experiences? Are you getting any interviews at all? If anyone has any insightful tips, I would like to know.
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On the resume, should we put the skillset section before or after the job experience section? Will that make a big difference?
@14d Laid-off fed employees get generous severance. They won't be hitting the job market for months.
If AA and AAA leagues shut down, that wouldn’t all the sudden make harder competition in the MLB.
Sounds heavy...
Tens of thousands of federal employees are getting laid off and those people are now looking for their new job in the private sector. The competition is getting a lot harder.
Your network is everything. Use LinkedIn for networking...not job hunting directly with "job" postings. Look at a job...see if a recruiter or HR person is attached to it...reach out to them directly. You may/or may not get a response. Your goal needs to be to create and build an external network.
Go to local events, talk to people, create relationships. If you don't...you will not easily find work. Even doing these things...you will likely go a year or more struggling to find real work out there. Just don't give up!
Check out the purple Banking and Finance graph in this FRED (US Federal Reserve) chart of job postings by industry on Indeed. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff735ee-9d7c-45b5-a202-a5312ccb19c4_1600x725.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Assuming it's a numbers game, but we can't just sit around forever without a new job. There must be a few tricks that we can use to beat out the competition and make the top percentile. I think we should focus on finding those few tricks.
Y'all voted down @aq but it's the truth.
You want to know why every job has hundreds of applicants?
Look up Sonara, Massive, LazyApply and SimplifyJobs.
If you're applying manually, you're already behind the ball. People are applying to thousands of jobs in hopes of finding one. AI has destroyed limited competition pools.
Two big generations, millennials who outnumber boomers, and Gen Z, who will outnumber boomers soon enough, are both desperate to find jobs. Yet, capitalism rewards getting rid of jobs in favor of automation and profits.
Add it all up, you're competing against an increasing number of desperate candidates for a shrinking pool of income opportunity. It's going to get worse, much worse.
HR Tech , alike rest of the Tech, su_ks at WF.
I applied for 32(!!!) internal roles for which I was 100% qualified last year. I got two interviews. The recruiters told me they had 600-800 applications for each role. And the economy is worse this year.
I have been told that you can get a new job very quickly if you apply to onsite jobs rather than remote jobs. The onsite job applicants pool is much smaller and less competitive than the remote job applicants pool.
This is why -
298 Wells Fargo jobs in Hyderabad, Telangana, India (39 new)
I don't like to use LinkedIn because I get too many irrelevant spam emails from Indian recruiters every day. So I have not updated my LinkedIn profile since 5 years ago. Is that a problem?
So often I see postings on LinkedIn that are just a few hours old that already have 100+ resumes. Your best bet to get noticed is to reach out to anyone you know at these companies and see they they can recommend/refer you or put your resume in front of the hiring manager.
@c3+1jmgkd8b6 What do you mean about ‘there is a # they go to to prescreen’?
Do hiring companies always look at our LinkedIn profile and decide whether they interview us or not based on what's on the LinkedIn profile? I know some people don't use LinkedIn so much and don't even update their profiles. How significant is the LinkedIn factor?
All a rouse to justify needing cheap slave H1-B labor.
The market is saturated, therefore each job gets hundreds of applicants, qualified or AI-driven. The 'why' so many applicants doesn't matter. The 'What happens next' is what matters. Recruiters will not and can not read every applicant. What they do is have a # they will reach out to to pre-screen, sometimes 8+ depending on the role. If they reach that in the first 50 resumes, too bad for the other 150 in line behind them. Then the pre-screen and interview process begins. It's not you or your resume, it's the market and simply the timing of your resume and what # it was out of the 100+ applications for that role.
Your response rate can also vary depending on your line of work and the market for that type of labor. For example, in software development and software engineering, there were a few hundred thousand people displaced around 2022-2023+. All of that newly unemployed labor supply needs to get soaked up by the market.
Do you tailor the resume for the job specs? Have AI write your job and you edit.
Last two I applied for (trying half-heartedly to escape because of how bad the market is right now) were both well covered on my resume and I still got denied with no interview.
I'm convinced there aren't really any open jobs. 90% of the posts are just resume harvesting. Nobody wants to hire in this economic environment. Spend money to hire someone today, tomorrow you could be out of business due to a tariff threat.
The billionaires are trying to ruin us.
@a3+1jmgkd8b6, true. But I am pretty sure most of of the applicants are blindly applying to any jobs as long as their background is remotely related to open positions. Some id--ts even use a blast email tool to send 100 resumes all at once. Because of these spam applications, the HR people get overwhelmed and get tired, so they just spend 5 seconds or less to scan the keywords to screen out the candidates. I personally want to find out how we can beat out the competition.
problem is there are a thousand other resumes just like yours for every post.