Prince.Skeletor
Don’t Be Like He-Man
Got laid off as a part of a mass restructuring a few months ago.
Job market is fukkin brutal AF
It was months of reading people on LinkedIn talking about how sending hundreds of resumes out there and never an interview even.
I'm talking specifically about the IT Job Market here.
I had no interviews for the first month, then I got one and I didn't do too well on the interview, I was rusty.
Then more interviews and I was getting better at them every week, it takes practice because the job market has changed.
Right now there is so much talent out there that companies now look for candidates that fit the job profile perfectly. Which I think is a stupid idea, it won't allow for much creativity always recycling the same type of people.
But what it meant was that every interview took way more preparation.
The other thing I learned is when companies ask you if you use AI, I thought they were asking and everyone shows that they did great work but AI helped them, so I thought the ideal answer was no.
But I later realized that I was wrong, no they want you to know AI.
If you don't know AI, you will be replaced. Because we are in a transition phase right now, AI is not ready to fully automate everything, but it can downsize teams and the remaining people will have to know AI to help them speed up projects or tasks.
Resumes that I was sending out was catered to the position, this sounds ridiculous but if you not doing that then you need to realize that everyone else is!
So if you applying to 10 different positions this week you need to create 10 new resumes.
And keep you resume concise, they getting hundreds and hundreds of resumes, so they will skim over it.
Also you need to make your resume ATS friendly. This is a big one.
An ATS-friendly resume is designed to be easily read and processed by an AI App called 'Applicant Tracking Systems' (ATS), which most employers use now because of the sheer number of applicants to screen job applications. This type of resume typically features a simple layout, clear section headings, and includes relevant keywords from the job description to improve the chances of being noticed by recruiters. A few hundreds of resumes won't even be read by a human, it will be read by AI.
It is a fully remote position so i'm happy about that, but it was a brutal couple of months.
If you in that position hang in there, I wish I read what I just wrote when I got laid off, so I thought to create this thread.
Alot of my friends in tech are also in the same boat, a few of them it's been over a year and they haven't found anything yet and they are very good at what they do.
Job market is fukkin brutal AF
It was months of reading people on LinkedIn talking about how sending hundreds of resumes out there and never an interview even.
I'm talking specifically about the IT Job Market here.
I had no interviews for the first month, then I got one and I didn't do too well on the interview, I was rusty.
Then more interviews and I was getting better at them every week, it takes practice because the job market has changed.
Right now there is so much talent out there that companies now look for candidates that fit the job profile perfectly. Which I think is a stupid idea, it won't allow for much creativity always recycling the same type of people.
But what it meant was that every interview took way more preparation.
The other thing I learned is when companies ask you if you use AI, I thought they were asking and everyone shows that they did great work but AI helped them, so I thought the ideal answer was no.
But I later realized that I was wrong, no they want you to know AI.
If you don't know AI, you will be replaced. Because we are in a transition phase right now, AI is not ready to fully automate everything, but it can downsize teams and the remaining people will have to know AI to help them speed up projects or tasks.
Resumes that I was sending out was catered to the position, this sounds ridiculous but if you not doing that then you need to realize that everyone else is!
So if you applying to 10 different positions this week you need to create 10 new resumes.
And keep you resume concise, they getting hundreds and hundreds of resumes, so they will skim over it.
Also you need to make your resume ATS friendly. This is a big one.
An ATS-friendly resume is designed to be easily read and processed by an AI App called 'Applicant Tracking Systems' (ATS), which most employers use now because of the sheer number of applicants to screen job applications. This type of resume typically features a simple layout, clear section headings, and includes relevant keywords from the job description to improve the chances of being noticed by recruiters. A few hundreds of resumes won't even be read by a human, it will be read by AI.
It is a fully remote position so i'm happy about that, but it was a brutal couple of months.
If you in that position hang in there, I wish I read what I just wrote when I got laid off, so I thought to create this thread.
Alot of my friends in tech are also in the same boat, a few of them it's been over a year and they haven't found anything yet and they are very good at what they do.
aint you a man b?
Never use quick apply. If it is a real company and not a scam then go to the companies websites and apply directly there. I only use quick apply if the official website send me back to quick apply