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Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by rsynnott »

azangru wrote: post #255
wizardforhire wrote: post #234

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This and… Use your new free time by not applying to… Work on a project that interests you and share it online Exercise both physically and fiscally Spend time with people you care about and also care about you And keep working on projects and sharing them, maybe even with hn The comments on here are legion of individuals who post some project and have to then fight away recruiters…

What do fiscal exercises look like?

Repeatedly raising one of those burlap sacks of money found in old cartoons above your head.

Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by mpeg »

darkwater wrote: post #206
hamburglar wrote: post #204

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I’m confused by the question. Are you under the impression that the term “full stack” didn’t exist in the early ‘00s? I recall the term already being an overused joke by then. It basically just means that whatever stack you got, the person can work on all parts of it.

Never heard the full stack term in early '00s, but I was very very junior so it might be me, anyway I'm pretty sure that nowadays "full stack" has a specific meaning (basically only related to web development) and that it was different back in the day

I didn't start working that early but still find it hard to define because these days "full stack" is someone who can write frontend and backend web apps – but on my first few jobs "full stack" was anything from writing javascript for the web to setting up or troubleshooting a server, or debugging a SQL query plan

I think the best description is "give me a piece of tech and I can probably figure it out"

Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by skrebbel »

fatfingerd wrote: post #265
skrebbel wrote: post #205

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Fwiw: I’m an employer, and sometimes people ignore the “how to apply” instructions on our site (which say to email to jobs@) and reach out straight via eg LinkedIn and I always file those in my “can’t follow a simple instruction” pile. Not to say that what you say will never work, but I think it’s worth pointing out that at some companies, application processes might exist for a reason. For me, having all application…

Sure it works for you but if you need tools to manage then I can't imagine the average applicant in your process has very good odds. Even if only a few companies hire through direct contact, many of the ones that do will hire more than 1 in 10 of the relatively infrequent direct contacts, while their HR process may be sitting on the thousands of regular applications.

By tools, you mean a gmail label, yes?

Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by mixtieboo »

This is a topic, I really dont want to comment on:

But here it goes:

Job sites are spam. Supply and demand is all that matters. People who suck got laid off. So what. These companies are incredibly dysfunctional at hiring ANYBODY in software. That includes FAANG.

Software Engineering is no longer a respectable career regardless of pay. The reason is that the goal of "de-professionalizing" software engineers since the mid-90s has been accomplished within 15 years since 2005.

This de-professionalizing effort was the purpose and reason for the H1-B program expansion during the Bush and Obama administrations.

The main drivers behind it were Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Neither of whom wanted to pay engineers, (Bill G was more entrenched though as he said in the 90s he wanted to pay software engineers 6-7 dollars an hour)

Unfortunately for both Bill G and Steve J they were caught (red-handed by the way) not only trying to fix engineer wages, create blacklists but also trying to "KILL JAVA" which is all on DOJ grand jury testimony video recordings you can access yourself. Fortunately (for them), however, the US govt cares not about what it pretends to care about in public.

So the GOOD news is: Tech hiring is corrupt, managers are usually going to be gone after they fail to build their "kingdom" which they ALWAYS do and even in a market "full" of genuises and apprentices, noone will read your resume anyway.

Because IT hiring is and has been a scam for almost 2 decades.

Does that answer your question?

Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by grumple »

physicsguy wrote: post #91

Things that disqualify CVs straight away for us: * Unclear if have right to work in country. This needs to be stated up front! Our company can't sponsor visas, so if based in another country unless it says something about the visa status, we basically have to throw it away. * Poor grammar, spelling, attention to detail on CV. I get some CVs through that are almost unreadable. I'm not saying if there's a single typo t…

As someone who has been on both ends of hiring, why do you care about gaps in employment? People can either do the job or they can't, I don't see why their personal life (or whatever they took off for, willing or not) is relevant.

Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by debarshri »

Lot of things depends on where you are located.

In EU, market is not very bad as compared to US. It is still easy to find a good opportunity.

In US, it is really hard hit.

In South east Asia/India, it is calm before the storm as operational costs are low, it is last one to experience the stream of layoffs. It hasn't hit the market yet.

Re: Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

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Post by Ilasky »

ukyrgf wrote: post #24
Ilasky wrote: post #2

I've had similar issues - so much so that I've created Resgen[0] just because it was tough getting call backs. It turns out I really needed to tailor my resume to each job and it resulted in a lot more call backs. [0] https://resgen.app

Wow, that design is modern but brings me back to the days of application skin sites and early digital art communities back in the early 00s. Great job. I'm going to sign up.

Thanks! Let me know what you think when you try it out.

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Post by Ilasky »

shishy wrote: post #45
ukyrgf wrote: post #24

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Wow, that design is modern but brings me back to the days of application skin sites and early digital art communities back in the early 00s. Great job. I'm going to sign up.

It's like gumroad.com (the design I mean)

I definitely had a lot of inspiration from gumroad - love their design too.

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Post by eunos »

debarshri wrote: post #296

Lot of things depends on where you are located. In EU, market is not very bad as compared to US. It is still easy to find a good opportunity. In US, it is really hard hit. In South east Asia/India, it is calm before the storm as operational costs are low, it is last one to experience the stream of layoffs. It hasn't hit the market yet.

Grab (one of the biggest in SEA) already laid offs and I can tell you local startups from SEA also have been laying offs.

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Post by Ilasky »

fhaldridge7 wrote: post #222
Ilasky wrote: post #2

I've had similar issues - so much so that I've created Resgen[0] just because it was tough getting call backs. It turns out I really needed to tailor my resume to each job and it resulted in a lot more call backs. [0] https://resgen.app

Great project but I don't have LinkedIn. I've previously used ChatGPT to do something similar. Wrote a text about myself, copy-pasted the job description and then asked it to generate resume bullet points. It worked well. Maybe your site can do something similar? Instead of requiring a LinkedIn job posting, users can copy/paste a job description.

I plan to have support for other job boards (greenhouse, ashby, indeed, etc.) soon.
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