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i’ll get called a paid actor but i legit used rezi when i was laid off in December 22 and it was a big help. I got a job in February 23 with the help of Rezi. Would recommend. Just use it wisely.
other than AI support to write your job descriptions and cover letter i don't see anything useful
Sorry to hear a lot of people are having a difficult time. Let's face it, LinkedIn won [1]. Go ahead and create an account and contact a recruiter. It's the only way that has worked for me in the past several years. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36903624
I think it depends on company size. large companies are a crapshoot no matter what (and by some point you will probably simply have recruiters come to you). mid sized companies (~200-1000) work best by contacting either a person you know at the company or a recruiter. Small companies that fit your interests and startups (the ones that aren't "growing like crazy") seems to still work fine with the resume submission pipeline in my experience.
My 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.
The complete silence is eerie. I’ve never encountered it in my career.
On the flip side I’m trying to convince my CTO to fire half our engineering team - a group of jokers he hired during the run-up who are now wildly overpaid and massively under-delivering. With all the tech talent out there I’m convinced we’d replace them all within a week.
If only. It can take a week just to go from recruiter call to the first hiring manager talk. that gauntlet of 4-6 weeks of interviews is what makes me dread the interviewing time the most.
Unfortunately even if you feel like your resume is super strong, getting a job now requires to literally excel in every single step of the interview and having the luck of having the team feeling you as a perfect fit for the team. Even a single meh would mean instant rejection. There are literally too many great people in job search and companies aren't certainly in a rush to close their openings.
My perception, and my network seems to confirm this as well, is also that the rate of new opening has slowed down significantly, which means that things are getting harder. I really hope that the market will recover soon for everyone.
2 YoE - Cloud Data Engineer - new Job is DevOps Engineer - Location Germany
Then I attended meetups when I wasn’t applying.
I worked harder getting a job than I am working this current job.
There is also the issue of job posts that are not real, in the sense that the company isn't actually hiring. Unless maybe a unicorn drops on them I guess.
On a related note, now it could be the right time to leave your job and create an opening to searchers if you want to have a software business with upfront development time investment. A lot of great businesses get the ball rolling in a recession. If things don't work out, you will probably face a better market on the way back, and your product has a higher chance of hitting a good market when it's ready.