Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ...
by raydev on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:16PM
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It's bad! I got laid off late last 2022 when I had just joined in 2021
When I got 2021 New Job, I continued to interact with recruiters and even did a few more interviews into December! My inbox was full of recruiters, as it had been for the 4-5 years prior.
The recruiter spam started drying up for me around June/July 2022, what used to flow became a trickle. By November 2022, my inbox was a bunch of tumbleweeds and I had just been laid off.
I followed 6 referrals from ex-colleagues and only 2 got me to an actual phone screen.
I got my current job a few months ago, but that was after weeks of pinging recruiters directly on LinkedIn and stumbling on a exactly-perfect fit of a job description to my resume which I boasted about.
When I got 2021 New Job, I continued to interact with recruiters and even did a few more interviews into December! My inbox was full of recruiters, as it had been for the 4-5 years prior.
The recruiter spam started drying up for me around June/July 2022, what used to flow became a trickle. By November 2022, my inbox was a bunch of tumbleweeds and I had just been laid off.
I followed 6 referrals from ex-colleagues and only 2 got me to an actual phone screen.
I got my current job a few months ago, but that was after weeks of pinging recruiters directly on LinkedIn and stumbling on a exactly-perfect fit of a job description to my resume which I boasted about.
My inbox is still mostly dry.