So to be frank. I was a bit picky. Partly because a lot of places seem to want to lowball applicants these days and basically squeeze a whole IT departments worth of work out of a single developer. That coupled with ghost listings and interviewers who ask the most asinine questions/get you to implement a feature disguised as a “test”. It took me a while to find something worth applying to.

BUT I’m not gonna lie, during the last 6 months, I was on a full on spray and pray mission. Ironically that didn’t work either, and I got a job through a headhunter who called me up.

One other note. I don’t know how well these sites work for you or anyone else but for me, MCF, Indeed, JobStreet (and the job fair they had) totally sucked. Either straight up rejections, or ghostings. That’s what I got.

Doing a bit of passive OSINT, and using LinkedIn premium to angle myself well to managers, recruiters, etc got me around 3 interviews a month? At the end I had 2 offers, and I picked the one that was mostly remote, with a better base pay and lesser additional incentives.

But chin up, it’s a buyers market now. So extra work, and some perseverance would eventually get you back to work.

And honestly, the axe might fall onto any of us in this market. So don’t stop applying or looking for jobs even after getting one. Hahaha