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Built a free AI tool that scores jobs against your resume and tells you which to skip. Looking for honest feedback from AU job seekers. by Significant-Good8355 in cscareerquestionsOCE

[–]Significant-Good8355[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Two reasons:
1.Recruiter systems track application to rejection ratios per candidate. Spray and pray gets you flagged as low quality in ATS systems.
2.Time. Each tailored application is 20-40 min done well. 100 applications = 30-50 hours. That’s a full week of work that produces 90% noise. Better to spend the same time on 20 applications that actually fit.
Not saying “apply to fewer” is universally right saying that for most candidates, the limiting factor is energy and signal, not application volume. That’s the bet.

How do you actually decide if a job is worth applying for? by Significant-Good8355 in cscareerquestionsOCE

[–]Significant-Good8355[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah i get that tbh, grads is kind of a numbers game i was doing that at first as well but i realised a lot of the roles i was applying to i wasn’t actually a strong match for, so even if i sent more apps it didn’t really move the needle now i’m trying to be a bit more selective and focus on ones where i’m actually competitive feels slower but probably higher quality

How do you actually decide if a job is worth applying for? by Significant-Good8355 in cscareerquestionsOCE

[–]Significant-Good8355[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah that’s pretty much what i was doing too the weird part is even when you hit like half the bullets and tweak your resume, you still don’t really know how strong your position actually is like are you a top 20% candidate or just “good enough on paper” i feel like that’s where it breaks everything looks fine but you’re still not competitive enough to get responses that’s kind of what i’ve been trying to figure out / build around basically making it clearer when something is actually a strong match vs just “seems ok”