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Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by t-writescode »

spuzz wrote: post #5

About a year ago, I sent out over a hundred resumes, got 3 callbacks, most of which weren't serious, and then there was one job I wrote a cover letter for because I matched everything they were looking for and handily got the job. So it's both impossible and very very easy. I think tech hiring is going to be a knife fight for a long time, because we're long past the point where only the thoroughly interested are look…

> Be ready to manage your time, it's very easy to let 15 minutes off for chores turn into blowing off a whole day.

Alternatively (and in my opinion, more importantly), manage your 'at work' time. It's very, very easy to let working become your whole self.

Get out of the working space and SEPARATE your working space from your living and thriving space from your working space is absolutely vital to avoid burnout.

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by t-writescode »

speedgoose wrote: post #38
zero-sharp wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can find plenty of Indeed postings that won't let you submit the application without specifying ...

Could it be a USA thing?

I'm not in HR; but I imagine they're very averse to anything that might reflect bias in employment and putting your gender, current ability to get pregnant, religion, etc, on a resume would absolutely count in that way, I imagine.

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by hackable_sand »

speedgoose wrote: post #38
zero-sharp wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can find plenty of Indeed postings that won't let you submit the application without specifying ...

Could it be a USA thing?

Definitely not US. We have voluntary self identification.

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by mpeg »

msarrel wrote: post #7

There's a huge push to get everyone back into the office 5 days a week. Be prepared to be told NO remote work. I have a similar experience to the previous comment, applied to about 50 jobs and got 2 interviews. Removed all dates from my resume and now I'm getting interviews left and right because they can't tell how "senior" I am.

Did you also remove some roles so that it looks like you're younger? I've heard that is the only way to get interviews these days as senior cvs are getting thrown out (too old, too expensive)

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by ohyes »

gedy wrote: post #33
ohyes wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> recruiter girls wtf mate?

No harm meant, many/most companies I've dealt recently with have young women doing their recruiting.

I suppose calling them “girls” seems very strange to me, presumably they’re all adults.

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by zero-sharp »

hackable_sand wrote: post #43
speedgoose wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could it be a USA thing?

Definitely not US. We have voluntary self identification.

Yea that's how it's supposed to be, right? However, I am sure that I've seen applications which don't categorize that input as optional.

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by icdtea »

ChrisKingWebDev wrote: post #34

I'm an edge case, but I recently found a part time dev job at a web game that I had been playing for about 2.5 years prior. In the news header of the game they had an headline that came up every few weeks that said "We are always looking for good devs to join the team". When I was finally ready to commit, I emailed them, had a couple email exchanges and two interviews. One interview over slack and one video interview…

Very cool, congratulations on the position! I'm a fan of web based games, out of pure curiosity is there any chance you can shoot me a link to the game in a DM?

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by icdtea »

999900000999 wrote: post #26

Mixed bag. 2020 was my best year ever job wise, I was making a stupid amount of money. In 2023 I took a massive pay cut, we're talking over 50k, but it's still better than nothing. Now I'm somewhat close to my peak, fully remote. Not the most I've ever earned, but in very comfortable.

Did you take the paycut to go fully remote, or were there other circumstances leading to that change?

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by fidla »

hlieberman wrote: post #4
fidla wrote: post #2

I applied to over 70 jobs at Hampshire college, UMass Amherst, Mt Holyoke College and Amherst College. All open positions, not 1 interview. I'm a white man. I finally took my race, and gender off the application and got 3 interviews right away

Honest question: why was race and gender even /on/ your application in the first place? Do you mean the EEO questions that they ask -- because those are absolutely not supposed to be part of the application. Or do you mean you have it on your resume? Because... why?

As you can tell these are College jobs and they have a race and gender aspect to every application. You're not required by law to fill it out, but they do use it as part of the screening process

Re: Ask HN: Those who have recently undertaken a job hunt, what was your experience?

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Post by fidla »

tomwphillips wrote: post #8
fidla wrote: post #2

I applied to over 70 jobs at Hampshire college, UMass Amherst, Mt Holyoke College and Amherst College. All open positions, not 1 interview. I'm a white man. I finally took my race, and gender off the application and got 3 interviews right away

Did you re-apply to the same places with and without those factors? Because if you didn’t, it’s hard to be sure what you’re implying is true. Alternative explanation: you applied for competitive roles and didn’t hear back because there were better candidates, then you applied for less competitive roles and got interviews.

Oh yes I should have made that clear. I resubmitted my application to all of the original jobs
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