I’ve been trying to leave T for a while now. I’ve been working in T for three years, and I have had enough. It's a very toxic workplace, I haven’t had an opportunity to learn anything new or progress in any way, and beyond a couple of great colleagues, I have no reason to stay. I’ve been searching for another job in both corporations and smaller companies, and well outside our industry (I’m specific tech which allows the scope), but I haven’t had much luck so far. Market is really bad for IT these days. How are you faring? Anybody having a positive experience?
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Bro... Three years? You'll be fine... You're probably at the lower end of your wage band with your seniority. You have no pension to protect. You can probably easily find a job that pays you what you are currently earning or more. Make yourself available on LinkedIn and get some interviews under your belt. The good thing about ATT is that it's too big to care if you are looking for another job. Just never do it while on the clock or from company devices. Good luck to you.
If you’re that good that you should find another job already
Network former colleagues. The only way.
Job market su-ks.
Check out the videos from Andrew LaCivita , A Life After Layoff, and Don Georgevich on youtube.
Make sure your resume is ATS friendly and Network your way in the door.
Try to get a referral for any job you apply for.
Focus on applying for jobs where you meet at least 70% of what they are looking for.
Make sure your resume is on point and easy to glance at to see what you can do. Keep resume at 2 pages or less.
To get your interviews on point get someone to do mock interviews with you, use chat gpt to review the job requirements and give you questions based on those job requirements. You can also do some mock interviews with verve ai, but I would only use it for mock interviews. Good Luck
“Welcome to Walmart!”
If you’ve sat in the same job for years and not tried to update your skills, it’s hopeless. Hopefully, after the election, the job market will get better.
It is not easy. I’ve been looking to get out and had some interviews but comp at a lot of these jobs just doesn’t make it make sense to leave and it like others said it is not easy to cut through the clutter.
Take T off your resume and start the employment search from scratch.
If you stay you will not learn any new skills and became unmarketable. Plus you will get older. And at some point sooner or later toxic T will lay you off. It will be much harder to find a new job if you procrastinate.
They gave us a six-month heads up in relocating to Dallas. Use that time to update LinkedIn, network with friends inside T and outside T, volunteer at Community Cleanup days where the sponsoring organization is one you want to work at. It’s who you know, because the backward what you know from T ain’t worth dirt. I found a lower pay job at Netflix, but remote full time and got the 6 months severance.