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There's a reason no one seems to stay. 😅

referrals, especially if you have a resume that's not super legible to the average recruiter. a good hiring manager will try and get their recruiters to have a better understanding of what to look for in candidates, but lots of hiring managers aren't proactive about that, plus noisy signal.

every job for me has been through meeting someone either through friends or at an event or meetup and being referred / vouched for

honestly underrated strategy

Networking still works if it is actual relationships with people who've worked with you or know your work. A referral gets looked at. Cold applications don't. It's frustrating because the surface story (apply online, get interviews) hasn't actually been true for years, no matter what we think.

the best job search advice I ever received was from this 45-minute Marathon video essay, specifically starting at 9m30s m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujzP...

I applied to a grocery store and my uni, then networked my way into three tech jobs by showing I'd be a good hire somewhere they saw. None were hiring publicly. The first place contacted me through our local LUG, then I contacted the other two through their online communities and they recognised me.

You don't, lmao Jokes aside though it seems to be aggressively applying on sites like LinkedIn. Unfortunately, I am pessimistic because I think we underestimate the impact of AI which will decimate job listings...

I was probably fussier about who I let them apply to vs. most of their clients, but they basically 10x'd my submission rate, and a bunch of their AI-powered matches were pretty dubious, so they're counting on volume.

Most of them get filtered out before it hits manager eyeballs (I’m sure this depends on the place) Recruiters have a hard and thankless job.

have a parent pretty high up in a tech company

unfortunately requires you to know those initial people still but it’s at least a much better initial door than trying to get an application viewed at all

👆

it's thankfully become recruiters coming to me, but before that it was referrals and cold outreach

the past two roles I’ve landed have been entirely via Linkedin and recruiters. Best piece of advice I ever got was to treat LinkedIn as my resume, posting often!

o shit you made me realize just now I might not be the target audience lol

When recruiters reach out, I say yes. Still haven’t found anything but at least I get an interview.

application spam, and complaining on social media -> referrals. my most recent job i got from being reached out to on linkedin, so that occasionally works

Screaming, mostly

Started my first job last year. Spamming job applications to startups mostly but it took a long time (~little over a year after graduating with my bs) Only ever got the one interview. Im very lucky that I did well

(the one I applied to was the worst move of my career)

Networking, same as always, but it's even harder now. Sometimes referrals don't even work.

To be fair, nepotism will technically get you a job anywhere so I might be answering in a biased way because of how disheatened I feel about personal merit not being enough to get a job anymore

Not exclusive to young people: referrals. Though TBF, the only thing it guarantees is that your resume will be looked at by a human.

knowing a guy who knows a guy

LLM have been nice to find job applications that fitted her experience and education, but were worded in a way that traditional search did not pick it up for her. But that’s not really a catalyst, it’s just that she’s aware of more opportunities, but everyone does so you need to send more.

the clarifying questions you ask about that problem are *key* in a technical portion of the interview. If the initerviewer hears you asking the same questions the team asked while trying to solve the problem, that interview ends with you at the top of the list.

still trying to figure that out myself