I sent countless resumes and now I'm getting a little worried because several months have passed and I still haven't managed to find a new job. I'm slowly becoming depressed. Competition on the job market is huge. It is very likely that I will have to agree to a significantly worse offer. Anyone else who can't get a good offer?
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Linkedin is invaluable in the job search. My approach has always been to figure out the hiring manager for a job and email them directly with a resume. Ask that you set up a quick chat to see if there is mutual interest. Once you have that chat, you will still probably have to work through their formal hiring process, but you are now not just an anonymous resume.
Methods to find the hiring manager. Check linkedin for your connections that might work at the company. Ping them and ask them to look up the hiring manager and provide email - or better yet, have them refer you internally.
If you don't have connections in the company, usually if it's a smaller company, start looking through the employees for that company and find job titles that look like they might be hiring for that role. Reach out on linkedin.
You might worry that some will think you are circumventing the process by doing this, but that is the whole point. Make yourself stand out by being aggressive.
I have had a 100% success rate in talking with hiring managers using these methods. Good luck
I landed a new job some time ago and might have some useful insight for you. I started looking as soon as the announcement was made. Here is some advice.
1: Reach out to your network first.
2: Spend some quality time on your resume. Have friends and family look over it. Also realize that resumes are now read by robots if you're applying cold. There are sites that will scan your resume and give you some clue what the robots see.
3 : Yes- this can take time. Don't get discouraged. I am not kidding when I say that it took me probably 150-200 resumes, numerous recruiters, and later 6 interviews to land a new job. It took 4 months. This is normal. Don't take it personally. Just keep applying and eventually something will stick
What Job sites are you using?
Are you applying direct or via a recruiter?
Do you know anyone at the company your interested in? They may have a referral scheme that can help you past the first stage of screening and benefit the person you know.
Is your linkedin upto date?
recruiter contacted me a couple weeks ago for a fully remote Senior Engineering role - minimum 10+ years experience, Full stack + Cloud + Kubernetes, client can offer "upto" $100K/yr, it's a Fortune 500 company based out of Chicago (don't know the name as recruiter did not reveal it)
Yikes! not sure if this is typical but the salary offer is a joke and it's amazing that companies are even trying this...
since the recession is soon to come or already here, best to just get a job with benefits. You can continue to look once you get a job. No one is going to pay high wages going forward. That happened last year, but now it's back to the old days pay.
leverage your network if you haven't already, mass résumé distribution doesn't work.
After lot of prep and trying, I finally took a paycut & just joined.. Its better not to be in sinking boat..
I was about to write a very similar post. Sorry you're going through this. You're not alone. This has been a stressful time.