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Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by Careersy »

The job search can be difficult right now. Many companies are still determining if they should continue hiring or stop, sometimes even lay off their staff. As a tech career coach & tech recruiter, I recommend the following: a)try to remain optimistic and patient, I know this will be the hardest thing, but it will be an essential step forward for you. b)recruiters don't have all the answers you need because they are also waiting to hear back from many different stakeholders. You need them. c)make sure your resume is the best resume you have ever written. The competition is high right now. I've written a 12-page resume handbook course with two google doc templates that you can use in under 5 minutes. https://www.careersycoaching.com/product-page just sharing this in case someone needs it. You can use the 20% promo code: Interview d)connect with recruiters on LinkedIn with companies you'd like to work for. They might advertise a role in the near future. When you are connected with them, it will be easy to share your resume directly with the recruiter. But you got to do the work now. You could write something like Hey x, a friend recommended connecting with you. I've heard great things about your work culture. I would love to connect and stay in touch with you; who knows what the future might bring. e)rewrite your LinkedIn profile. Once the market picks up again, you want to have an impactful LinkedIn profile that can be found. At the very least, ensure you have the relevant tech keywords somewhere in your profile. Thanks, X f)you need multiple processes to be successful. I recommend having at least five processes, if possible, to increase your chances. g)the market is changing. The bar is going up; you need to prepare really well for your interviews. Don't wing it. Prep as much as you can. Practice as much as possible for the coding interviews and do your research online. Many companies have their coding questions on the internet.

Hope this helps, if you want me to share more tips please let me know and I can add a few more things.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by CWuestefeld »

EmilyHATFIELD wrote: post #339
CWuestefeld wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been doing this for 30+ years, and I've found the same. It's not just whether the candidate can answer correctly, but how they answer. Back when I was doing C/C++ interviews, I'd ask questions like: What's the difference between single and double quotes? A meh candidate answers something about you need single quotes for just a single character. A good candidate answers about how the data type for a double-quoted…

Why would using pointers be better than references ? At least a reference cannot be null?

Well, at the time I was doing that, it was actually for a C and not C++ job, so &references weren't even a thing. But my point wasn't that using the ampersand is wrong - just that if that's how you describe what you're doing, you probably don't have a very strong foundation in how the language really works.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by Rapzid »

roncesvalles wrote: post #319
a_bonobo wrote: post #119

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This feels kind of arrogant? People working in many customer-facing entry level jobs do emotional labor within organisations that no AI-training has even taken aim at. If glorified chatbots could do their work receptionists would've disappeared a long time ago.

I just want to add, ordering through the McDonald's big touchscreen machine is much better than ordering through the human and that alone has elevated my affinity for McDonald's. Which other experiential leaps from replacing humans with machines remain unimplemented?

Eh on McDonalds but I do like the self-service ordering.

Kinda amazing this has not caught on more and sooner in USA.

Much more low tech versions of this have been used in Japan forever. The noodle bars and ramen shops are case studies in efficiency.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by zerof1l »

A bit off-topic. Saw a lot of posts lately about layoffs. I feel in Europe, at least Germany, and Sweeden, we are having the opposite issue to the USA: staff shortage. In Frankfurt airport, I saw an ad by Lufthansa that they are hiring 20,000 people from ground staff to IT. In Stockholm, some trains got canceled due to staff shortages.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by atraac »

ergvgdvgrd wrote: post #506
token8791 wrote: post #433

Not laid off, but my 2c, from Euroregion. Demographics is the killer force, basically with a MINT background, you can find a job almost instantly. You may not earn a top salary, but you'll earn enough to get by well. Given Europe is in the worst crisis since WW2, I'd say job market is fine.

What is mint?

I would assume he means this: https://www.ue-germany.com/news-centre/blog/what-is-mint-any...

  Careers and academic disciplines in the fields of:
  Mathematik (Mathematics)
  Informatik (Computer Science)
  Naturwissenschaften (Natural Sciences)
  Technik (Technology)
but it's honestly first time I'm seeing this too, might be just a German thing.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by detaro »

atraac wrote: post #555
ergvgdvgrd wrote: post #506

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is mint?

I would assume he means this: https://www.ue-germany.com/news-centre/blog/what-is-mint-any... Careers and academic disciplines in the fields of: Mathematik (Mathematics) Informatik (Computer Science) Naturwissenschaften (Natural Sciences) Technik (Technology) but it's honestly first time I'm seeing this too, might be just a German thing.

Yeah, German thing. The equivalent English buzzword-abbreviation is "STEM"

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by dublidu »

matwood wrote: post #32

Layoffs make news, but if you look at the numbers they are relatively small compared to all the hiring the last few years. We have gone from the best time ever in history to be in IT, to a great time to be in IT. There are a lot of jobs if you step outside big tech (and targeted jobs in big tech with certain skills).

That doesn’t matter to laid off people if most companies have a hiring freeze and there’s net reduction in tech workforce. It means most laid off people won’t get jobs until companies start growing again.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by LeanKhan »

jesse__ wrote: post #418
pm90 wrote: post #402

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> From what I've observed this year, companies that are doing difficult or low-level work are still as starved as ever for senior/staff/architect-level folks that can deliver, and are happily willing to hire them. Probably irrespective of company size, but I pretty much exclusively look for teams of ~5-20 people. How do you find these companies? I'm trying to find such roles since this is kinda where I excel at, but…

If you're not in a rush I recommend posting on 'HN: Who Wants to be Hired' every month and let people just come to you. If you are in a rush, I've had pretty good success in the past with applying to 'Who Wants to be Hired' posts, as well as AngelList (they just rebranded, but I forget the new name). Not sure if that helps at all, but that's what's worked for me.

Wellfound is the new name

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by eileenanzabwa »

Just got laid off early December after celebrating my 34th birthday. They had nothing wrong to say about my performance. They said i was a good leader, a performer, a hardworker. Not sure what went wrong but i guess they never had a good reason either. Well here i am, still looking for a PM gig. If anyone can point me in the right direction, here's my linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-anzabwa-41b34b144/ and a link to my CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wav2woivdifgw2QyZpYyyUFKAhJ...
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