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Re: Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?

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Post by toast0 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

mightymosquito wrote: post #14

jjevanoorschot wrote: post #8

I'm sorry to hear about your illness, I hope you're doing better now. Personally I have found the market to be quite good recently, at least based on my LinkedIn inbound. Something that might help is to condense your resume to 1-2 pages. There's a lot of detail in your resume and it's quite difficult to understand it at a glance. Other than that it can help to reach out directly to people at a company your interested…

Thank you! I am better now! I do have quite a big network, but haven't really tapped into that at the moment! Do you mind sharing whats your profile like(FAANG/Start-ups, Frontend/Backend etc) and the kind of inbounds you've been getting on linked-in. I just get recruiter spam that they almost never reply to!

> I do have quite a big network, but haven't really tapped into that at the moment!

Your work network's primary purpose is to facilitate job placement. Use it! If you submit your resume to N companies every day, you should also send out a message to at least N people from your network, until you've exhausted your network.

Re: Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?

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Post by toast0 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

dakiol wrote: post #15

I think it’s mainly because of the year gap. Try lying about it. I had a 5 month gap in my resume (I quit my last job without having something new) and I got rejected a couple of times without having a single interview. As soon as I put that I’m still working, I got the interviews again on track. I don’t think it’s unethical to lie about that: if I pass their (shitty) interview, that means I “fit” their “culture”.

One shouldn't lie on a resume, but omissions and partial truths are fair game. Consider listing years instead of month and year. That can make some gaps disappear. If they ask you clarifying questions about it later, that means you passed the resume screening. Consider leaving out dates and listing duration instead: ex: worked at X for 1 yr, 6 mo; worked at Y for 4 yr; etc. Gaps don't need to be reported in that format.

Re: Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?

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Post by rizs12 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:25 PM UTC

Do you need visa sponsorship OP? That might be making things substantially tougher

Re: Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?

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Post by Awesomedonut » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

neuralkoi wrote: post #20

Your resume is too long. Try to fit it to a single page. When I worked at a FAANG I was once sent a list of 80 resumes to review. I didn't spend more than 30-60s per resume (recruiters often spend way less) and yours would take at least 5 minutes to read completely. This is what your resume could look like if shortened: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lt9zJF119f2G-XDcyBKUOxj6o2X... Also reach out to every single con…

How exactly do you reach out to connections? Is a LinkedIn DM saying something like "hey, do you know of any job opportunities/got anything for me?" too blunt?