Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4461-4465 (the 15th through 19th of February, 2021)
Sorflakne:
People at various times have posted data about their job searches on r/dataisbeautiful. Each graph looks largely the same: 500+ apps sent out, 400+ no-replys, 100 replies, 80 ghosts, 20 first phone interviews, four second phone interviews, three in-person first round interviews, one second-round interview, one job offer. Job hunting for anything that isn't menial labor is time intensive and incredibly draining. Having a network or someone inside a company who can vouch/advocate for you makes the process so much easier (how I got my current job over six other possible applicants). Each rejection or lack of reply sucks, and the automated emails make it even more dehumanizing, especially when you get your 234819th pitch of "You're the ideal person for this sales position!"--seriously, you hold a sales job for even a month or two, even if you sucked at it, and other sales job openings will find you and spam you about sales jobs for years afterwards. Make it stop!!1!
Recruiters are largely useless as well, unless you pay a premium for one, and not everyone has that luxury. Gotta ping them almost daily to stay on their relevance list, and even then, they still suck at placing you. And for as much as they say to not shotgun your resume out there, you pretty much have to, even when you tailor it specifically for each job, because unless you're a senior position or in a hot field, you need volume just to force the door open. To say nothing of the current market with 10million+ people looking for jobs...
Torlek:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 18 Feb 2021, 19:39 ---
--- Quote from: Farideh on 18 Feb 2021, 18:31 ---Awww, poor Claire. She's right though: the first rejection IS a milestone. As long as she thinks of it as practice, she'll be good.
--- End quote ---
She’s also pretty lucky. My applications just seem to end up in a memory-hole.
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Same. I applied for at least 40 jobs coming out of undergrad and interviewed for 12. I got all of three rejection notifications (but two offers, and that's what was important). One place that I interviewed and impressed one of the vice presidents couldn't even be assed to look up the status of my application when I called them a few weeks after they said they would notify me (and this wasn't some shady, fly-by-night operation, they're one of the companies vying to build the next lunar lander).
Gyrre:
And now they're asking for multiple years of experience for even entry level jobs.
Gus_Smedstad:
My experience wasn't nearly that bad. It was draining, but I never had an application memory-holed. I always got callbacks at least.
Some of those callbacks were kind of absurd, though. The one that sticks with me was when I was working at Interplay, and I applied to Blizzard. The guy on the other end of the phone started asking about my GPA in high school. At that point, high school was 15 years behind me, and I had 11 years of experience as a professional programmer, and 3 years as a game AI programmer. Asking about my high school GPA was dumb.
No surprise, that's one application that went nowhere.
Tova:
Mine was. The vast majority of my applications got no response. And when you spend your days sending countless applications into what seems to be a black hole, finally getting an actual rejection feels like a huge step forward.
Even if it reminds you of just how much work you'll need to do before getting an actual interview. And how many of those you'll probably have to do before getting an actual offer.
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