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Re:The publishing industry has a gambling problem by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:03PM (#45510474)
> Job-hunting is a brutal, humiliating slog, because of the thousands of junk CVs even the most obscure job posting gets.

Having been on the hiring end, I can assure you that it is not true that even the most obscure posting gets thousands of applicants. Sometimes you put out a job and get very few bites. So it depends, as always, on the specifics of the posting (what industry, where it is, etc).

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Re:The publishing industry has a gambling problem by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:07PM (#45510500)
Good point. I was really referring to IT industry openings.

I will say that companies use the tsunami of junk, as justification for the nastiness of the interview process.

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