I was laid off 3/25. Irving, TX. IT. I got 3 job offers and accepted one but I literally applied for jobs 8 hrs/day every weekday. The market is brutal. Good luck to all who were laid off!
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Citigroup back ground checked me. Only went back 12 years. I think they didn’t even bother to follow up on confirming my grad degree. I mean they have an idea but I certainly don’t present as over 60 and I’m fortunate not to look it. (hit that mark this year).
very difficult, just sending resume out with no hits or recruiters reaching out to either vanish or respond them finding better candidates. The technical interview questions can be extremely difficult, almost set up so you can fail just so the hiring company can say they did their part. It dark and I feel hopeless many days. I continue to protect my job at citi so I can have money and health insurance to stay alive but this is ki-ling me slowly. I hope the economy gets better because the job out there is false hope and the few that are real are extremely competitive
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@jtp+1t2Vyrwb - that is exactly one of the recruiters suggested me but that will help you to get an interview, number of years experience and age will be known after background check.
There should be some kind of regulation on companies discriminating on age, one of my uncle is 76 and he still works in IT. There are lot of folks at Citi who are over 55 but they are in NYC I guess and their jobs are safe.
Weird logic of layoffs.
Tip to poster above - don’t lay out your 30 years experience on a resume. Keep it to 2 pages most of the time. Go back maybe 15-20 years. Same on LinkedIn but there you can add other experiences and tiles without dates…
Nope. In the 1,000 (no kidding) responses to postings since Jan, I have yielded 2 interviews. Both of those were for salaries half of what I make now and still didn't land either one. Market is awful. I think the other poster is spot on, most postings are fake. I have learned a few things; ziprecruiter, builtin, linkedin, etc are all a joke. None of them work. Part of it could be my age. When my resume details 30 years of experience it's not hard to do the math. I also think having Citi on my resume is actually a deterrent, despite working for all of the majors at some point. Lastly, seems like everything now is AI. I have become a dinosaur.
Add me, Irving Texas. I’m down to the last of two interviews. If picked, the salary is more than what Citi is paying me now.
I am. Yes, the job market is sparse. There are a ton of job posts out there but few are hardly responding. I believe that most job posts are fake but are out there as way to show “we are still in business, things are fine over here” when in fact most of the hiring is lackluster. That being said, yes, I have three interviews for the skills that I’ve acquired. It took me a month to get these interviews. As recession either passes or is avoided, the market will get better. Just bid your time and hang in there.