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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yup, I'm an IT engineer with over a decade of experience who was laid off in February and I haven't had a single interview from the hundreds of applications I've filled out despite multiple letters of recommendation from the owners of several former jobs.

I'm about to hopefully get a job in property management at my local college until things improve (and I can get my cyber security masters for free).

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  • Yeah. I've been looking in analytics and it's awful. Any remote job on linked in gets over 200 applications ("people who clicked 'Apply'") in the first day. If you see a posting more than a day out it's very likely to have more than 1000 applications (I've seen as much as 4500).

    I emailed a recruiter about a posting recently when the job page on the company site was throwing an error. I told her about the error and asked if the job was real/still available. She said she'd gotten over 500 applications within a few hours of listing it and shut down the posting because she was overwhelmed. I think that's the norm now.

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