Most of my hires come through referrals. That is one way to almost guarantee yourself an interview, if you can get somebody already on the inside to vouch for you.
As well, there is a lot to be said for hand delivering your resume to the office and asking the receptionist if the hiring manager happens to be available for a quick meet and greet. That (the meet and greet) almost never actually happens but the gesture itself is sure to make an impression. When you learn from the receptionist that the applicant personally delivered the resume, you feel obligated to at least call the guy back and schedule an interview. At least I do.
My niece and nephew are both biomedical engineers and both have zero problem getting interviews and landing jobs. You need to be excellent, have in-demand skills and credentials, and be in the right industry at the right time. It’s always been thus.
That said, our kids have lots of friends in their 30s getting laid off.
Since Indians have now taken over recruiting, they use computer word matching for exact matching. You need to place the exact phrases from the job description into your resume. Not even remotely kidding. It is how the indians apply for jobs: Copy the job description into their resume.
Most companies have software that screens out most applications, you have to take the job qualifications and cut and past them into your Resume.. It does work as I have done it. I have a template resume and then cut and paste in the job qualifications.
"A job is advertised. They interview a number of Americans for the job. All of them are mysteriously not hired. Then the company puts in an H1B application, lying and saying that they could not find an American to do the job. Then they import the lousy H1B worker who performs poorly and is paid 40% less than an American. This goes on and on. Halfway through the year, the 200,000 Hindu 1B quota is filled. Microsoft, Google and all the rest of the scum corporations run screaming to Congress yelling that they need more H-1B’s because of a horrific labor shortage in IT."
BTTT!!!
If he changed his name to Jill, he’d get multiple offers
i always had two different resumes tailored to two different fields
use a temp agency for experience
Ghost postings are used to check the box that there has been a search for qualified candidates and someone to fill the job has already been selected. It is a protection against EEO action or to tick the box of internal postings when the decision has been made to promote from within.
Some jobs just go unfilled because HR is stalling for some reason.
A young friend thinks he has broken the resume screen algorithm by including verbatum, the job advert in micro font in the footer of the resume in no color. That resume goes to the top of the pile until others begin doing the same thing.
If you can somehow find a place where the manager is the hiring agent and you can get an interview by virtue of personal connections you may get a job.
A lot of outfits are short handed by their own inaction. Some people on the inside like it that way.
Companies have always done this just to see what’s in the market if for no other reason. Anybody who’s been in the consulting world has seen this for a long long time.
National labs do this, I think. It must help them qualify for to Federal grant money.
I am sure there are tons of openings on the books—but they will be the first jobs cut when things go south.