Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
by careerswitcher on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:42AM
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Now is a bad time. Two years ago I was hired with no experience as a career switcher onto a full-stack web (mostly backend) team. Now the same team is hiring and wants a mid-level with 3 years of experience.
Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
by FirmwareBurner on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:21AM
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>Now is a bad time.
Unfortunately for me, now's the best and only time, as I was laid off. I have to do what I can. Looks like it's time to overinflate the resume to stand out.
>Two years ago
Two years ago was a temporary anomaly in many markets, not just employment, that we may never see in the near future.
Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
by sentinalien on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:30AM
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Right now is particularly bad though, one of the worst job markets for this field in quite a while, it will pick up at some point
Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
by FirmwareBurner on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:40AM
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Sure, but I can't stay unemployed until the market picks up, since nobody knows when that will be.
Maybe because it is impossible in practice?
I'm an EE trying to move from embedded SW to higher level (backend/dev-ops since I had some experience with that and with python), and all I get are rejections ("sorry, thanks for your application but we can't move forward with it since we have so many quality applicants with more experience to choose from").
To me it seems, the current market doesn't seem to favor career switchers at all. Companies seem to be looking for seniors or at least mid level experienced in their area of work, so switching careers does indeed seem to be impossible now.