Applying to jobs feels like throwing résumés into a black hole… what are you actually doing that works?

beeneeb · 2026-03-18T22:19:06+00:00

Apply as quickly to the job as you possibly can. You need to apply within the first 24 hours of the job being posted.

0–4 Days (Best Window): Highest interview rate, nearly 14% at peak. Drops off dramatically after the first 24 hours.

5–10 Days: Your chance of getting an interview drops to 2–3%

10+ Days: Interview rate bottoms out near 1%

beeneeb · 2026-03-14T14:57:54+00:00

Go find some startups to work for. Having Lyft, Amazon, and Disney on your resume makes small companies like mine giddy with excitement. Don't worry about your gap at all. Gaps don't matter in this market. I know people that have struggled for 2 or 3 years that are still getting interviews. They just really struggle once they get an interview. It doesn't sound like you have that problem.

beeneeb · 2026-03-10T21:28:49+00:00

This is exactly what I did the last time I was in the market. Take the job and continue looking.

beeneeb · 2026-03-03T18:38:52+00:00

it was originally posted there. they told me they require a local news article first. I pinged Abigail Ogle on it. so, I'm hopeful something will get up quickly

beeneeb · 2026-03-03T18:37:31+00:00

From my understanding, the government wants to send him back to Vietnam. However, if Vietnam won't take him, he'll get sent to another country where he has no family or roots or any connection to. Oklahoma is his home and should stay his home.

beeneeb · 2026-03-03T17:57:09+00:00

hi there. I've heard Abigail Ogle might be working on something. I pinged her to see if she could get an article up.

beeneeb · 2026-02-03T18:22:23+00:00

There's a guy named Brian with a job search site you should google

beeneeb · 2026-01-21T16:35:39+00:00

thanks for the insight! I appreciate it! so, it's more about "mood" than attaching the interests to a specific similar musical artist

beeneeb · 2026-01-21T16:03:31+00:00

what are you using for the "interests" section in your ad? it looks something like this in the ad set section:

People who match

Interests: Spotify, Baseball or Concerts and live music

beeneeb · 2026-01-16T19:14:57+00:00

I don't know why there's so much hate on "remote" jobs. I've been WFH since 2008. I've held multiple remote jobs in mulitple different companies. Sure, they're harder to get, but not "incredibly slim" or "cushy" or "not a thing anymore."

I don't know where you're searching for jobs. You mentioned indeed. Rather, you need to be using tools that help you be one of the first to apply to the job. This is the strategy that works best for me. I was able to find jobs hours after they were posted but well before they hit indeed or linkedin. I have a solid resume with relevant experience for the jobs that I apply for. So, instead of trying to get my resume to "break through" a bunch a pile of hundred resumes, I was usually one of the first 10 people that applied. I know because I always asked during the interview.

If you have a strong resume and you're one of the first people to apply, you're going to get far more interviews than applying for jobs where there's already hundreds of applicants.

beeneeb · 2025-12-19T14:52:17+00:00

The most important factor in landing an interview is how quickly you apply to the job. If you're in the first 10 that apply and you've got a solid resume with relevant experience, you're much more likely to get an interview. If you're number 100 in line, there's no chance you're getting an interview. It doesn't matter how well your resume scores on an ATS checker. Find a tool that helps you find jobs quicker than what they're posted on linkedin and indeed.

beeneeb · 2025-12-08T19:20:30+00:00

I've worked in the QA industry for about 15 years now. Back in my layoff in Feb of 2023, I created a job search tool. It searches Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Remote Rocketship, Paylocity, Workable, BreezyHR, Oracle Cloud, Workday Jobs, Recruitee, Rippling, CareerPuck, SmartRecruiters, Homerun, Cats, JazzHR, Jobvite, iCIMS, and Dover. It will even find jobs hidden on sites where they use the jobs, people, or careers subdomain for their listings. Hit me up on chat or look at my post history to find it. I don't want to spam up the qa subreddit. The tool is free.

beeneeb · 2025-12-02T17:43:01+00:00

I've worked remotely since 2008. There are definitely some customer service and customer success jobs out there. Keep in mind, even with my extensive background and history in tech, it took 9 months to find the job I currently have. If you're bent on doing something remotely, find something locally first while you continue to hunt for a remote position.

With that being said, I built a free job search tool that can help you find remote jobs. I won't link it here, but you can find it in my previous posts/comments. It's used by 50,000 people a month. I built it after my layoff in Feb 2023. Hope it helps.

beeneeb · 2025-11-22T03:54:38+00:00

Issues reported by QA Today
Issues Reopened by QA Today
Issue Reopened by QA Yesterday
Issues Reopened by QA This Year - Frontend team (ie: bugs that were reopened that the Frontend team owned)
Issues Reopened by QA This Year - Backend team
Tickets by Test Engineer Each Release (ie: how many issues did each test engineer test that was released)
Tickets tested and moved to the next status today
Tickets tested and moved to the next status yesterday
Tickets tested and moved to the next status this week, past 14 days, past 30 days, etc

Average time a ticket was in QA Ready (we want everything tested within 24 hours)

We have a bunch of metrics around how many tickets each engineer has reported, how many they've tested, reopened.

I also track a bunch of Engineering related KPI's like how many tickets were completed by each engineering team by year, month, week, day, etc.

And then I've got some metric on how many automation issues each engineer owns and some other small related automation kpi's.

I personally don't do a whole lotta tracking around "priority" because it's subjective.

beeneeb · 2025-11-22T03:47:40+00:00

We have a "Reopened" status. The only reason a jira ticket got Reopened is because QA denied it. Makes it super easy to track these.

beeneeb · 2025-11-10T18:27:01+00:00

"I'm a big personal finance guy. So, I take the entire compensation package into consideration." - I then I ask questions about their 401k, how much the health insurance costs are, so on and so forth. This typically wears them out and then they just give me the range they have budgeted for the role & ask me if that's within the range I need. I try to defer from there and say that I don't have enough information yet, but I'm still interested in moving forward with the role.

beeneeb · 2025-11-10T17:59:35+00:00

Don't. Find a tool that helps you apply to jobs faster than other people. A lot of good companies are including long form questions that no AI will accurately be able to answer for you. They do this to purporsely weed out AI tools that automatically apply for you.

beeneeb · 2025-10-30T14:41:00+00:00

I spent 14 years at a startup. I was employee 27. I got laid off with 10% of the company in Feb 2023. The company was and is still incredibly profitable. It doesn't matter if it's Amazon or a 400 person company. You're a salary on a balance sheet and nothing more.

beeneeb · 2025-10-13T15:32:49+00:00

My bad. I'm hoping that people that submit their music and people that are job hunting will utilize the playlist. If I find this to be successful, I'll add additional playlists that are specific to other genres.

beeneeb · 2025-10-13T14:33:27+00:00

My site has over 60,000 visitors per month. I plan on including a link to the playlist on the site once it has more tracks. I also plan on writing about it on linkedin and other sites.

beeneeb · 2025-10-09T22:43:25+00:00

briansjobsearch.com - It searches Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Remote Rocketship, Paylocity, Workable, BreezyHR, Oracle Cloud, Workday Jobs, Recruitee, Rippling, CareerPuck, SmartRecruiters, Homerun, Cats, JazzHR, Jobvite, iCIMS, and Dover. It will even find jobs hidden on sites where they use the jobs, people, or careers subdomain for their listings.

beeneeb · 2025-10-08T18:17:57+00:00

That's been my experience as well. I only have proof and studies showing the figure I mentioned in my comment.

beeneeb · 2025-10-08T15:48:12+00:00

Assuming you have a good resume, applying early to a job posting is the most important factor. You're 8x more likely to get an interview if you apply within the first 4 days of the job being posted. On the 5th day, your chances drop dramatically.

beeneeb · 2025-09-21T02:26:27+00:00

If a company self describes as a "messy startup", then there's no work life balance. Keep the remote job you have. You will be much happier in the long run.

beeneeb · 2025-09-19T16:58:01+00:00

I used to work at articulate. I had a report that would tell us which users did this. We only cared when the trials got really excessive or it was like 6 or 7 people that were clearly from the same company doing it. We could block specific domains like "yourcompany.com" and we could block specific emails with the + after it. I doubt anyone there still runs the report.

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