All those who were laid off last year, have you found your next role yet? Please share your experience.
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Post ID: @148+1jjtx3fpw I hear you. One time I applied for 400 jobs and only got 40 interviews before I got two only job offers. That's a 10% rate. I realize that I may be lucky because I've heard of stories where applicants got zero interviews or lower than 10%.
When I read about Career "Experts" on the Internet doling out out-of-touch, stup!d and oblivious advice that applicants should tailor their cover letters and/or resumes for each job, the applicants will need to be awake job hunting and submitting resumes on websites 24/7 !!!
Job hunting is not only about clicking send on company websites. Applicants scour several employers' websites for jobs they're interested in which could be several webpages long and hundreds of jobs posted if they're lucky, fill out long application forms on the websites, then upload their resumes.
Most employers' websites are antiquated, function and look like they're still living in the 1990s. So this means filling out the same application information (your work history, name, address, etc.) over and over again for each job you're applying to. Doing this can easily eat up 6 to 12 hours each day. As everyone knows, job hunting is a full-time job itself.
citibank gives me my life! I met my wife thru, got our credit cards and mortgage thru there. I am really happy and grateful!
Post ID: @148+1jjtx3fpw
Sounds like $hittybank. You get so little return for so much effort and time put in.
$hittybank is NOT worth it.
Post ID: @j9+1jjtx3fpw I don't have fish sauce.
But I hear you have T!ttybank cow milk. 🐄🥛
I got laid off late March 2024. I was supremely lucky and got a new job by the beginning of May (which is so much better than Citi). It wasn’t easy. I was submitting a minimum of 25 applications a day (including stuff like working grounds crew at a golf course).
I ended up participating in three final interviews. I got ghosted by one, and received offers from two. A lot of it was down to luck and timing because the job I took was very unique and fills a one of one role within the company.
The only thing you can do is keep applying. It’s frustrating because you get such little return for so much effort but I really hope everyone who was shown the door at Citi finds it to be a blessing in the end much like I have.
Do you have fish sauce ?
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I landed. I did not get along with my id--t manager and knew I would be in the round of Feb layoffs. Sent about 200 applications before I was actually told, was close to an offer but the hiring manager left. Citi then gave me 6 months of pay (3 months WARN + 3 months severance). They were basically paying me to interview lol.
During these 6 months, I submitted over 1,000 applications and sent messages to around 1/3 of my network. I finally received 2 offers in October (one from a cold application, the other from a network connection). It's a terrible market out there and honestly, I could write a book about the hassle I went through. Almost every month, I was so close to an offer, only for the company to ghost. A blessing in disguise but truly heartbreaking in the moment. Don't give up!
This isn't going to get better anytime soon. The economy and job market are bad. The job market is inflated with ghost jobs so it's actually worse than reported. In a poor economy you see consumers modify discretionary spending. When you see fast food places, shopping malls, department stores, restaurants etc. shutting their doors, it's due to lack of consumer spending. You also have the fed holding rates pretty high and housing prices remain at an all time high. So unless you have buckets of money you can't buy a house. So the rental market is also extremely expensive. And when money is expensive, retail shops closing, and everyone is trimming fat, banks also need to trim fat. it's a domino effect. Sooo many places laying off right now. From Banks, tech, insurance companies, heck even the air and space industry and now potentially the government. All of this increases competition for fewer jobs and lower wages.
Still looking after one year
I wasn't laid off (unfortunately) but I have ben actively looking for over a year now. Job market is pretty bad. In what might be 1,000 applications by now, I have yielded 2 interviews both for half of my current salary. What I find most defeating is that almost 100% of jobs posted on indeed, Zip etc. are ghost jobs. I never hear anything but an update that the position was closed or put on hold. This makes companies look more healthy than they are and inflates the job market falsely. And ones that are real never post a salary range. How the F are you supposed to get in the door unless you totally shoot yourself in the foot with a salary. There are tens of thousands of people competing for the same jobs and there is about 1% of those jobs actually available that are posted. And of those, usually it has a low salary and it has to be at a very specific location.