The first month of job hunting is over.
Let’s try to pull out a few points from the first experiences, seeing if the “voices of the web” are true and if I’ve found them to be so.
Underlying premises: I’m not the kind of person who applies to every single job posting just to say I’ve applied to 100 positions a day and still end up catching nothing.
We’ll see in the coming months whether my approach will bear fruit or if trawling is the real way!
To add a bit of color to the blog, here’s a nice Sankey diagram. They’re in vogue on Reddit these days 😃
Let’s analyze this small batch of data and see if we can get something constructive out of it.
I went with 3 applications per week, as suggested by the RAV.
As you can see from the chart, only 2 applications didn’t get any reply, and, surprise, they were the most generic ones: full remote and with thousands of applications already sent.
I have a feeling these job offers are fake and just sit there permanently open. I’ll dig into this topic in the coming months.
3 were rejected straight away without any “human” exchange, no chat or call. To be fair, they were a bit outside my skill range, so that’s totally fine 😃
Then, the chunky part of the applications involved some chat on LinkedIn or via email.
Of these, 3 were followed by a call with the HR manager to better describe the job position and see if it matched my profile.
For only 1 position, I was given a challenge to test my skills in the required tech stack (see previous post).
And now, the elephant in the room.
All these applications where there was real human contact and that passed the first step, receiving and reviewing the CV, even when they seemed promising, ended up running into the infamous “Ghosting.”
Quoting from Wikipedia:
“Ghosting, simmering and icing are colloquial terms that describe the practice of suddenly ending all communication and avoiding contact with another person without any apparent warning or explanation, and ignoring any subsequent attempts to communicate.”
So maybe those “voices of the web” were referring to this.
Recruiters suddenly cut all ties, and none of my follow-ups got a reply.
A simple and standard:
<<Unfortunately, X did not select your application to move forward in the hiring process.>>
would be perfectly fine, it could even be handled by an automatic message 😃
And now, a new month begins, the hunt continues!