Anyone else applying everywhere and hearing nothing?
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People being let go bc of comparing performance against peers is bs. upgrading the team? how come other rigorous fields (investment banking, medicine, Big Law, oil & gas engineering, trading firms, etc) don’t feel the need to do this, yet they have the right people the teams need every year 😂 consulting isn’t the most rigorous/difficult/or prestigious career. just say it’s for the greed of the firm, at the cost of unempathetically uprooting employees lives & at least you’ll be honest.
Focus all your time and energy on networking. I know some will disagree and say that cold applying still works, but for me, it didn’t. All interviews and offers came from referrals and/or directly reaching out to hiring managers.
I’ve been applying on and off for 3 months and have heard back for 4-5 roles. It’s not great out there but you will hear back. Some jobs reached out for the initial phone screen 2 months after I applied. Just do the usual stuff: ATS friendly resume format, cater your resume for each role unless the roles are pretty similar, use your connections as referrals, etc etc.
You need to be very intentional about the positions you’re applying to. You really should not be applying to more than 1-2 positions per day.
It’s tough
I have effectively not heard anything back in three years. I'll get the occasional 'lets schedule a screening' but then get completely ghosted after the screening.
You're already solving problems everyday. Say you own a home have a wife kids job bills. All these moving parts that need solving working on house homework with the kids relationship with wife. You can do it. You do do it so do it I. A space that's willing to pay you 250,000 a year. It's worth a lot more than that to a 100 million dollar company
Yes it’s definitely not just you. I need to hit the networking much harder
Toggle your open to work off and on on LinkedIn. Might have just been luck but had three recruiters hit me within days after doing that. Landed a role quickly
It’s not just you. A lot of places have posted phantom jobs etc. it’s not a great time to be looking. That said everyone from companies to candidates are playing it safe so the market is thin to put it mildly. I don’t know when it will change.