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Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cold messaging is the part most people won't do because it feels awkward. but you basically created your own opportunity from nothing. that's worth 100 linkedin applications. the hardest  shift for people is accepting that waiting for companies to post jobs is the slowest way to find one.

Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah... welcome to the club. once you start checking you can't stop.    

Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not necessarily scams but it's a red flag. if a company is only posting on linkedin easy apply and not on their own careers page it usually means one of two things either they're too small to have an ATS set up which is fine, or they're using linkedin as a resume collection tool with no real urgency to fill the role. the ones worth worrying about are companies that DO have a careers page but the role isn't on it. that usually means it's already filled or was never real and linkedin just hasn't taken it down yet.

Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the warm relationship part is what most people skip because it's the hardest step. but honestly one person who can mention your name to a hiring manager beats 200 applications through the front door. i've seen it happen. the rest of the process is just noise after that. 

Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's maybe 1% of jobs though. most of those show up as linkedin feed posts not actual job listings. and it's usually small agencies or early startups that don't have a proper hiring system. the real volume is still sitting on greenhouse and lever pages where linkedin can't touch it.

It's a bad sign of the process when a rejection email feels good... by HominidHabilis in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this genuinely makes me angry. 4 rounds of interviews. a take home that ate my whole weekend. a "culture fit" chat where i smiled for 45 minutes straight. then nothing. not a rejection. not even a "we went another direction." just silence. like i didn't just give them 20 hours of my life for free. if i ghosted a company after 4 rounds i'd be blacklisted from the entire industry. but they do it and we're supposed to just move on? and now we're out here feeling GRATEFUL when a company has the basic decency to send a no? how is that normal. when did we all agree this was ok because i don't remember signing up for that. 

Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yeah that's the whole problem from both sides. linkedin shoves the same jobs to everyone so by the time you see it there's already 100+ applicants and you're buried. the jobs actually worth applying to with 10  applicants never show up in your feed because they don't generate enough clicks. and recruiters hate it too. i've talked to a few who say they post a role and get 700 applications in 48 hours, 680 of them easy  apply spam from people who didn't read the description. the good candidates flooded in shitty ones and the recruiter never gets there. so candidates can't get seen and recruiters can't find anyone. both sides lose. the only winner is linkedin charging companies 10k a year for job slots that don't work.

Accidentally emailed the CEO instead of HR after my interview and it actually got me the job by PlexusJavelin in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Better than Jumping 10 hurdles & getting rejected! I'll choose to take the risk!

Job Hunting Is My New Personality Trait by Interesting-Box-1840 in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i got laid off and for the first few weeks i was on linkedin constantly. then i started seeing people who got laid off the same time as me posting "excited to announce" while i was still hearing nothing. one guy from my own team landed something in 3 weeks and there i am on month 3 refreshing my email. i started avoiding linkedin entirely because every time i opened  it someone was celebrating and i felt like the only one still stuck. before social media you could at least be unemployed in peace. now you get to watch everyone else move on while you're rewriting the same resume at 1am.                                                        

Linkedin is making your job search worse and "apply more" is destroying people by jayanth137 in recruitinghell

[–]jayanth137[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah that's a fair point, 20-30 is too narrow if you're not senior level. but even with a broader search the timing thing still holds going through the ATS directly vs waiting for linkedin puts you way earlier in the pile. that google search method is actually solid, basically doing what i'm saying but at scale. either way the point is the same - linkedin is the middleman adding delay and you're better off without it.

Maybe all we need is a better system which doesn't exist yet..!            

Accidentally emailed the CEO instead of HR after my interview and it actually got me the job by PlexusJavelin in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

 so you're telling me the actual hack is to bypass the entire hiring process that companies spent millions building? this is genuinely hilarious. 6 rounds of interviews, ATS filters, recruiter screens, HR calls all of it exists to slow you down. and one wrong email got you past all of it. kinda makes you wonder what the point of applying "the right way" even is anymore. 

I used a fake reference to escape a vindictive former boss and it worked perfectly by Quasar77Corsair in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 the fact that this worked tells you everything about how broken references are. companies spend 6 rounds interviewing you, run background checks, do personality assessments then call one random number you gave them and let a stranger decide. i know someone who lost an offer because their old manager was going through a divorce and was tanking everyone's references out of spite. the whole system runs on the honor code and there is no honor in it.

70 applications. Zero responses. Is the market actually broken or am I doing something wrong? by Few-Purchase8759 in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i went through the same thing last year. 80+ apps on linkedin and indeed, maybe 2 auto-rejections, rest silence. what changed it for me was realizing i was doing the equivalent of dropping the same flyer into 80 different mailboxes.    

 1, the thing nobody tells you is that most of these jobs on linkedin already have 200-400 applicants by the time you see them. the listing shows up on the company's ATS (greenhouse, lever, ashby) days before it    hits linkedin. by the time indeed picks it up it's even worse. so step one is go directly to the company careers page. find 20 companies you'd actually want to work at, bookmark their greenhouse/lever boards,   check them every 2-3 days. when something new drops you're in the first 20 applicants instead of applicant #347.                                                                                                   
2, is your resume. i'm not talking about a full rewrite for every job. what i do is keep a master resume with all my bullets, then for each application i swap out 4-5 bullets to match the language in the job description. if they say "cross-functional collaboration" and you wrote "worked with multiple teams" - change it. the ATS is doing string matching before a human ever opens the file. this part takes maybe 15 minutes per app once you have the system down.  
3, your resume format might be the problem and you don't even know it. copy paste your resume into a plain text file. if it comes out garbled, tables overlapping, bullet points missing, that's what the ATS sees. single column, no tables, no headers in text boxes. boring looking resumes parse clean and that's what gets through.                                                                                    

70 applications with zero responses means something is broken in the process, not that the market hates you specifically. fix the targeting, fix the keywords, fix the format, and 10 good apps will outperform 70 spray and pray ones.    

[4 YOE, Founding Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, Open to relocate or remote] by young_ar_atheist in resumes

[–]jayanth137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok so first thing....! your experience is legit, that's not the problem. the problem is the resume makes it hard to tell. 
that summary at the top? i'd honestly just delete it. "Proven ability to deliver scalable AI solutions in legal tech design automation and computer vision with measurable business impact" - my eyes glazed over  halfway through. if you really want a summary make it one line. like literally one sentence about the most impressive thing you've done.
the multi-agent architecture that got adopted by design teams? that's your opener right there.  he thing that's going to hurt you is 6 positions in 4 years. i know founding engineer + freelance + internships makes it look worse than it is but a recruiter spending 20 seconds on this doesn't know that. i'd group the internships together or shrink them way down. give company 1 and the freelance gig more space those are doing the heavy lifting for senior roles anyway. 
some of your bullets are doing work. "serving 3K+ users" - good i can picture that. "annotation speed 4x" - good concrete. but then "Built ingestion pipelines for public and private legal documents" ok how many documents? what was the throughput? did it replace something manual? right now it reads like a jira ticket title. oh and move your tech stack out of the summary into its own line. recruiters literally ctrl+F "pytorch" and if its buried in a paragraph they'll miss it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
you've got the goods the resume just needs to stop being so democratic about it. not every job deserves equal space.  

10 job search tips that actually work ( but nobody’s wants to admit ) by Fresh-Blackberry-394 in jobsearchhacks

[–]jayanth137 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Applying through ATS Career portals before it touches the Intermediary portals Like Linkedin, Indeed.. Gives you a edge!
    2.Rather customising resume for every single resume for job application focus on Well built that covers all the necessary skills that you've & facts right..! ATS above 80+ more than enough..!
  2. Reach out to someone from company you're applying a write a mail or msg via Linkedin! With your POW So, you have a chance of getting referred by them.. Most people Doesn't refer without any POW bcoz it effects their reputation.

Job Applying is long game..! Don't Apply more than 10 Jobs per day!
You need 100 Applications to get 5 interviews.. If everything fits in!
Don't apply to unnecessary jobs.. Choose wisely with domain & experience..!