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I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
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Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
#132I have found that tailoring my resume to a specific job listing increased my response time significantly. I've seen so many articles about people answering 50+ job ads and getting no response.
What kind of tailoring do you do?
Not the OP but generally you want to re-write your prior job history or anything in your resume to align with and highlight anything in their job description. Match the keywords to make it clear you're the perfect candidate.
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Disney’s rejection for a front end position came a full year after I applied
that's insane I remember applying for a position getting a phone call and then getting rejected afterwards but the funny thing was I got another email from the same company asking about my availability for the interview and I was like Woahh, are you sure you sent the email to the right person because I remember you already rejected me
The candidate(s) they wanted probably rejected their offer.
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Workday is not great for applicants either. Maybe the back-end is nice?
Workday is awful from every angle.
Yea, but companies will keep using it because offloading all HRMS to workday (or similar competitors) is cheaper than doing it all in house. (For companies of a sufficient size. Small enough and it's probably not worth it)
Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
#135Oh goodness, someone else who shares my irrational antipathy for Workday! Workday is such junk from a user facing perspective. It’s a huge pain to index content from. I have to omit a bunch of big semiconductor companies from my job site because it’s fucking impossible to get job data out of Workday. If you work in talent at either NXP or Qualcomm, please God read this essay. You are actively harming your own recruit…
Workday is weird. It's a chore to apply but things like simplify jobs browser addon makes ituch better. That being said I have more luck getting a response from a workday application than greenhouse or lever. Maybe the harder pathway discourages spam applications
I've gone through several workday apps in the last few days and found them all to be easy.
Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
#136I remain confused by the absense of a sizeable reverse headhunter industry.
Headhunters are trying to find a best fit for a company. Why is there no one trying to find a best fit for a candidate? The inherent problem in hiring, on both sides, is search costs.
I'm probably going to be searching for a new job sometime next year. I think that, to avoid the time spent on these appliations, and to ensure a relatively good fit, I'd be willing to pay quite a bit, or to try and align incentives pay a percentage of the pay increase from my current job for a period of time or something like that.
But essentially, it seems like free money on the ground to be able to pay people to solve these search frictions.
I realize headhunters exist on the company side, but it really seems like A) there should be more of that and B) there should be a reciprocal industry representing the applicants.
Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
#137Oh goodness, someone else who shares my irrational antipathy for Workday! Workday is such junk from a user facing perspective. It’s a huge pain to index content from. I have to omit a bunch of big semiconductor companies from my job site because it’s fucking impossible to get job data out of Workday. If you work in talent at either NXP or Qualcomm, please God read this essay. You are actively harming your own recruit…
Can you elaborate on the problems with Workday? I hear lots of antipathy about it, but the only problem I've personally noticed is (IIRC) it consistently mis-parses my PDF resume.
Yeah, they get what they get from the parser. The good resume is uploaded anyway.
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Freelancer.com and Upwork. Although after the torrent of AI powered garbage we received after our latest posting on Freelancer, I'm not sure we will use that again.
Thank you. I have side question for you. Sorry, all this thread coincides with another thread about LinkedIn and me getting banned without knowing why ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748263 ). As a job recruiter looking for freelancers, do you expect to find the person on LinkedIn as part of the fact checking process? Would you seriously consider alternating sites such as a person’s website or GitHub and wou…
Sorry to hear about your Linkedin profile. Yes, we do look at Linkedin profiles for shortlisted candidates. It helps to establish credibility and for us to get an idea of whether the claimed previous experience is legitimate.
We do also ask for Github, but many folks use other repositories. Linkedin is one of the best sources of credibility for us, so I would recommend continuing to try to get it unbanned, or start a new one.
Re: I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
#139I have found that tailoring my resume to a specific job listing increased my response time significantly. I've seen so many articles about people answering 50+ job ads and getting no response.
What kind of tailoring do you do?
I re-write all of my job descriptions. Usually because I touch so many different technologies, libraries, etc in each job, I can't put them all there. I try to tailor it toward the job description.
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Very likely going to be zero. The only way I can get a chance at a phone screen is to spend at least an hour crafting my resume and cover letter for each position.
Can you describe in more detail what this actually means? I can't imagine what I would spend an hour doing to my resume that would somehow make it more attractive to a specific employer without outright lying.
Answering as someone who's done a little hiring recently, but for me it's obvious when someone has put some time and effort in to their application via the cover letter. A good application will demonstrate some understanding of what the role is likely to entail, a bit about the company as a whole and a bit of understanding of the wider market the company works in.
Granted this is for a relatively small company in a niche area. Maybe it is different when applying for jobs at big companies.