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1) Tail end of the year - its hard to get full time roles , The hiring definitely picks up after Jan 2nd week or so. 2) Try consulting/contracting - That space is still brimming w hiring. Much faster on-boarding /hiring.
Is it possible that you're not passing a DEI filter? A lot of companies are running into trouble for not meeting their diversity goals, especially bumping into the end of the year.
1) Tail end of the year - its hard to get full time roles , The hiring definitely picks up after Jan 2nd week or so. 2) Try consulting/contracting - That space is still brimming w hiring. Much faster on-boarding /hiring.
Hiring is faster, yes, but onboarding is often still a dreadful mess. At least if it's at a company that expects you to use their equipment and their closed system.
The macro economic conditions are such that only senior technical people and similar high-value employees are getting jobs.
Is it possible that you're not passing a DEI filter? A lot of companies are running into trouble for not meeting their diversity goals, especially bumping into the end of the year.
1) Tail end of the year - its hard to get full time roles , The hiring definitely picks up after Jan 2nd week or so. 2) Try consulting/contracting - That space is still brimming w hiring. Much faster on-boarding /hiring.
Any suggestions on how to look for good contracting roles? LinkedIn only seems to have FTE roles.
If you're not passing tech screens, why are you assuming this means lack of demand on employer side?
I'm choosing to trust OP here - after all this is HN and we assume best intentions.
If you're not passing tech screens, why are
you assuming this means lack of demand on
employer side?
If you have e.g. 50 applicants who've passed the tech screen you might only seriously pursue 5-10 of them.
Five years ago I saw CRUD jobs unfilled a year after I started looking. They are effectively not desperate.
There’s a reason that the SAT (for example) is hundreds of questions taken as a whole and not a series of several sudden death pass/fail tests over the breadth of a four year degree. The second is simply unrealistic for squishy meat bags.
Next up, the "STEM shortage." :-D
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Any suggestions on how to look for good contracting roles? LinkedIn only seems to have FTE roles.
Put your resume on Indeed and Dice, and keep a google voice number, you will get a lot of calls from "offshore recruiters" working for primary and secondary vendors.
I've just been ignoring anything from an Indian sounding name as they seemed to me to be scams.