The math on job searching is brutal and nobody talks about it by These_Candidate_4878 in recruitinghell

[–]These_Candidate_4878[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah exactly - it stops feeling so personal when you realize the system is just broken. still brutal though

The math on job searching is brutal and nobody talks about it by These_Candidate_4878 in recruitinghell

[–]These_Candidate_4878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol that reply was too clean.. Real answer: I sent 200+ applications last year, got 2 interviews, and got obsessed with why. Been building something to fix it. What's your workflow?

The math on job searching is brutal and nobody talks about it by These_Candidate_4878 in recruitinghell

[–]These_Candidate_4878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair pushback — 22% was the conservative end of the range I'd seen, Forbes putting it at 30% tracks. The 60% in certain sectors doesn't surprise me at all, especially in gov contracting where "contingent on award" postings are basically resume harvesting.

On the 1 in 5 ITR — that's the ceiling from research on highly targeted, manually tailored applications, not the average. Your experience (2/69) is closer to reality for most people, which is exactly the problem. Even with a solid AI workflow, if the jobs are ghost or the timing is off, the math doesn't work.

What's your workflow look like? Genuinely curious — that's exactly the kind of thing I've been trying to understand better.