How has the job search been for you guys?
I’ve had a hard time landing and keeping jobs despite having more than enough skill to go around. What have your experiences been? I think I just need to get better at selling myself and working with others
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Hahaha, no.
I gave up and have been trying to generate my own income. In part because the job market is trash but also because the thought of slaving away for somebody else's millions makes me physically ill.
Terrible, dehumanizing, awefull. The entire process of applying for jobs is one of the absolute worst things society ever made me do.
I did in the end find a good safe job with an open minded manager that respects me and my colleague for our individual expertise and accomplishments.
I am not paid well, there are plenty of grossly better paying jobs within my industry. I don’t care. I know that was the compromise for job security and to me highly valued stability.
I am never doing that ordeal again. I am never applying elsewhere. They would need to drag me from the desk i have now. And they better find me another in house function to do because i am showing up to do my work the next day, wether they keep paying me or not.
(I work in the logistical background of a non profit IT helpdesk, with plenty of freedom, input in our procedures, room to script/program tools that benefit coworkers)
It's totally dried up. A couple of years ago, I had recruiters reaching out to me, and was making it pretty far through the interview process before getting tossed aside in the last step. Often the reasons for getting passed over were pretty weak at the time, but now no one's talking to me at all.
Daym. How are you surviving?
I currently have a job. One I've been trying to get out of for years, where no one will tell anyone what they want, and just gesture broadly towards abstract-sounding goals which can all be rephrased as "sell more", even though I am not in sales.
People will often tell those who are unemployed that being unployed is the reason they're not getting hired - that people want to hire those who are currently working - but that doesn't seem to be true. Not in my experience, at least. And not since everyone decided to pretend the whole fever dream of a perpetual-lockdoen economy never happened.
You know what keeps coming up in my saved searches? Gubmint contract jobs. Yeah... I don't see that panning out any time soon.
It depends on what you are looking for
I was looking for a junior Unix sysadmin (not too green pasture where I am, either positions were not junior level, or it was a lot of Windows and usual stupid IT) job.
Eventually landed one which is about systems integration, for a very general set of skills and very narrow application area. Basically showed my skills at automating things with a knot of scripts, installed and set up Asterisk, explained a few pcaps, and then I was accepted (for a trial period). But it was a rare coincidence, since then I don't remember new people for similar positions being hired. Tech writers - yes. Support - yes. Developers - yes. Deploy engineers - no.
Sometimes I work well, maybe more often - not, but it kinda balances out. I hope.