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I got laid off with a bunch of others late March and I'm still looking. Only had a couple of first interviews, mostly I'm just getting automated thanks but no thanks emails.
It sucks but I keep applying.
times are weird right now. are you holding up ok?
one tip i learned from my dad is to not bother with the contact forms, if it's a small company. just find the number to the ceo and call them directly. shows drive or something. i have no idea how well it works.
Not really but I don't have much choice but to keep on.
Mostly the applications are in HR portals, or linkedin. I came across one the other day wanting me to email my resume and cover letter, I closed the tab. I'm not doing cover letters and I've tried tailoring resumes to the position but it didn't make a difference.
It feels like a lot of the job posts are not there to be filled.
that's the impression i got even in consulting. we had five posts waiting for customer approval at one point, and after two months of silence they were just cancelled, no comment
It sucks but I've been told that feeding the offer to an LLM and making tailored job applications works better for avoiding those bad AI cv filters.
i tried that, the crazy thing is that the shit llms spew out looks like the same shit i write, but somehow it's statistically different enough that other llms rank it higher. strange times indeed.
I used a friend and shatgpt to reword my resume and get by the AI filters, but I'm thinking of just redoing the word salad myself. Though every time I go to do it I do something else lol.