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Re: Looking for work is a full time job

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Post by crtified »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #5
Dallas_B wrote: post #2

For anyone currently stuck in the grind of endlessly applying for jobs, I completely understand your frustration. I’ve been job hunting for the past three months, and it’s been painfully repetitive and time-consuming. Applying via LinkedIn often feels like throwing your resume into a sea of 1,000+ other applicants, even with daily alerts turned on. What worked better for me was following founders, recruiters, and oth…

> I’ve been job hunting for the past three months, and it’s been painfully repetitive and time-consuming. With full recognition of the challenge you're having, I'll append that the difficulty level ratchets up from there. The first thing my kids learned after high school is that ~100% of job portals silently discard applications from 1st-time job applicants. And from that point, the difficultly levels ratchets upward…

If tech companies get systemically hostile toward socially awkward people then that's a horrific own-goal.

Re: Looking for work is a full time job

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Post by Dallas_B »

xnx wrote: post #6

There's been a flood of third-party job boards on HN recently. As a job searcher, is there any reason to check any of these job boards in addition to Indeed?

From what I've seen I don't think there is a lot of 'exclusivity' of job posting on one platform or another, perhaps timing of jobs going live...

I suggest setting up the daily alerts on LinkedIn with your role title, doing the same for Indeed as well. I check BuildIn as well every few days just for good measure as they claim to have good hiring rates for tech.

Also see if there is any value in what I've built as well.

Re: Looking for work is a full time job

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Post by surfingdino »

sunjieming wrote: post #4
Dallas_B wrote: post #2

For anyone currently stuck in the grind of endlessly applying for jobs, I completely understand your frustration. I’ve been job hunting for the past three months, and it’s been painfully repetitive and time-consuming. Applying via LinkedIn often feels like throwing your resume into a sea of 1,000+ other applicants, even with daily alerts turned on. What worked better for me was following founders, recruiters, and oth…

We're seeing a flood of fake AI generated job applications basically DDOSing our hiring funnel. Not sure how widespread it is but it has become enormously frustrating to sift the complete garbage from the good resumes. I'm sure a lot of good people have been accidentally filtered out It's rough out there right now. Also, not even sure what the benefit or angle is for spamming fake job applications. State actors tryin…

The reason you are getting spammed is because a) agencies are trying to secure an interview before they have a candidate; b) they are trying to convince you to use their offshore teams. Ask around inside your company if any offers from offshore providers have been submitted/talks are being conducted. DDoS-ing hiring funnels is a way to convince you that "no good people are available".

Re: Looking for work is a full time job

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Post by jonathaneunice »

sunjieming wrote: post #4
Dallas_B wrote: post #2

For anyone currently stuck in the grind of endlessly applying for jobs, I completely understand your frustration. I’ve been job hunting for the past three months, and it’s been painfully repetitive and time-consuming. Applying via LinkedIn often feels like throwing your resume into a sea of 1,000+ other applicants, even with daily alerts turned on. What worked better for me was following founders, recruiters, and oth…

We're seeing a flood of fake AI generated job applications basically DDOSing our hiring funnel. Not sure how widespread it is but it has become enormously frustrating to sift the complete garbage from the good resumes. I'm sure a lot of good people have been accidentally filtered out It's rough out there right now. Also, not even sure what the benefit or angle is for spamming fake job applications. State actors tryin…

> I've been a Full Stack Machine Learning Data Scientist DevOps Engineer for 3 years. I've used every cloud platform, every provisioning tool, every major operating system release (Windows and Linux) going back to 2003. I write code in every major language and have used every major queueing system, web server, application server, networking stack, and database engine. I read in binary, ternary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal and process information at 12.9 exaFLOPS.

Re: Looking for work is a full time job

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Post by upghost »

Dallas_B wrote: post #2

For anyone currently stuck in the grind of endlessly applying for jobs, I completely understand your frustration. I’ve been job hunting for the past three months, and it’s been painfully repetitive and time-consuming. Applying via LinkedIn often feels like throwing your resume into a sea of 1,000+ other applicants, even with daily alerts turned on. What worked better for me was following founders, recruiters, and oth…

What kind of dystopian nightmare do we live in than LinkedIn is now basically required to get a job? We built this nightmare too. Darn it.

Re: Looking for work is a full time job

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Post by verdverm »

Dallas_B wrote: post #9
verdverm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a project you are trying to turn into a business is often a red flag. A company considering hiring you wonders if you will jump ship as soon as you have the opportunity to go full time on your own project

Thanks, not really trying to do that, more built it out of frustration. I've heard this can be an advantage in an interview to essentially sell 'look what I built in my down time' etc - Who knows.

Totally, it's good to have projects or a portfolio, it's not so much to have marketing & payment pages or look like it's an early startup
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