If I get laid off, I'm going to see about a career change. These threads invoke too much anxiety for me.
Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?
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#22Dead. UK, US, CA, EU. Dead.
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#23It feels like recruiters and HR have wedged themselves into being an untouchable block between candidates and hiring managers. Those in the wedge have no incentives for actually connecting candidates to the needs of the employer so the wedge keeps getting larger and stronger. Companies are too scared of their HR departments to stand up to them. They're basically commissars that have a MAD pact with the company should anyone try to remove them. Recruiters mostly exist to make things easier on HR though they will claim its to ensure employment equity policies are followed and the reduce the burden on hiring managers. But it's mostly so HR has less to do in their section of the wedge.
We see the frustration on the part of candidates but hiring managers are pulling their hair out too. In many cases, they actually have a strong candidate they've worked with before that is fully qualified, but everyone now must go through the HR/Recruiter obstacle course without exception. Good matches between position and candidate are tossed aside by those in the wedge and there's nothing those at either end of the pipeline can do about it.
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> With Trump (and Silicon Valley behind him) pushing to lower interest rates - if he was to win, it's possible to boost the tech job market The Fed is independent of the Executive in the United States.
He's on top of that - https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-allies-fed...
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#26I am an SWE in the US.
In 2022 on Linkedin I got messages from recruiters at Google, Amazon, Uber, and many other companies, large and small.
I haven't gotten a message from any recruiter on Linkedin for over a year. Luckily I am working.
One data point, but it fits with what I've been seeing and hearing from others.
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#27Very bad in the US right now, but I spoke with a tech recruiter recently who told me that, in his experience, June and July are always slow months, across almost all industries. He thought it was due to summer vacations, and that in August, as hiring managers get back to work, things start to pick up, and that it only gets better as EOY approaches and department heads become eager to spend their budget.
Here’s hoping he was right. Best of luck to all looking.
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#28My advice is build your network. If you haven't already start now.
It's how I landed my job.
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#29Way better than 2023. 5 YOE web developer. From Argentina, though, we are benefitting from offshoring of course. But last year I had months with 0 reach outs. Nowadays every week at least 2 to 3 even with the looking for job Linkedin feature deactivated. Last month around day 10 I made [this]( https://i.imgur.com/uWoGaM3.png ) taking note of reach outs. My personal anecdata, ofc...
Off-topic: saludos compatriota!
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#30US East Coast === Also Dead. edit: I'm a frontend focused JS/TS dev with 5 years experience and I was laid off at the end of May and never before has my anxiety been this high about landing another SWE role. At this point I've been heavily considering some sort of "hold over job" just to keep the lights on and keep me from going crazy, but I'm hoping I don't have to go down that route.
I can second this. NYC has plenty of companies accepting applications, but an extremely small number of interviews actually happen, and an even smaller number of people are getting hired. It feels like there are 200-300 job seekers for every job posting that makes it onto a job board, with titles like "Senior Software Engineer."