Would love to hear from the folks who have been looking for a new role.
What strategies are they using to find a new role and how much success have they had in terms of landing an interview
Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
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#2Its even worse than dot bomb (2000-2004) however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? I think some, but also with the success with remote work I image most roles were simply sent out of the US, and could be an outsourced team with extra help from copilot and other tools.
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#3Its even worse than dot bomb (2000-2004) however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? I think some, but also with the success with remote work I image most roles were simply sent out of the US, and could be an outsourced team with extra help from copilot and other tools.
Basically I went back to school to be a pharmacy tech because it seems like a hopeless job market after looking hopelessly for 18 months even after having survived as a web developer since 1995.
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#4It's pretty bad. Q1 and Q2 2022 were better than this.
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#5It's pretty bad. Q1 and Q2 2022 were better than this.
100% agreed,
I have been barely able to land an interview where as in 2022 I remember the situation was very different
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#6Seems like a lot of unicorn hunting out there, right now.
At least for senior data leadership roles, I’ve hit a lot of JDs that were clearly written for one person (either internally, or the random Meta/Google/whatever layoff that this company is sure will take a 75% salary cut for). Networking has been really invaluable. ATS systems seem slightly more inscrutable than when I was looking two years ago (wonder if there’s some weird effect from LLM-enabled resume spam).
I dunno, it’s not horrible, but it’s definitely worse right now than I remember it in the last five or six years.
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#7My job search has been admittedly limited in scope, but so far I’ve received two rejection letters and from the rest complete silence. I’m not at all optimistic if I have to switch jobs next year.
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#8I’m not sure what it’s like in your industry compared to the one I work in, but I have recruiters cold call me all the time asking me if I would be willing to switch jobs.
Some of the recruiters get my details off of a job seeker website I am on (that’s not LinkedIn), and they contact me. I literally had a recruiter cold call me today.
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#9It is taking a while for me. Seemingly lots of jobs out there and I have been interviewing constantly. I've had four final stage interviews and rejected for all of them. I have more screeners lined up, and one promising prospect that is taking a long time. I'm told that everyone is at a summit which is what is slowing down the process.
I get a lot of 3rd party recruiters that seem to follow a similar MO: the recruiters are all people with south Asian names, calling from US numbers (I'm in Canada), with a vague job description, they want to hire me hourly, and they are cagey about the company that they are hiring me for. They ask for my CV, my work status, and what "project" I was on. They don't really seem to consider getting hired full time, they only talk about contract work. I have never progressed with them beyond giving them my CV and an authorisation to "represent" me (letting them act as a middle man).
Re: Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?
#10Its even worse than dot bomb (2000-2004) however is it all github copilot eating these jobs? I think some, but also with the success with remote work I image most roles were simply sent out of the US, and could be an outsourced team with extra help from copilot and other tools.
Basically I went back to school to be a pharmacy tech because it seems like a hopeless job market after looking hopelessly for 18 months even after having survived as a web developer since 1995.
And companies will still swear up and down that they can't find talent at any price even as talent streams out of the industry to other fields due to being snubbed.