How is everyone landing interviews these days? Direct applications or referrals? Hearing a lot about gpt optimization and wondering if anyone still cold applies anymore or recruiters ignore till they get a candidate referred internally. Thoughts?

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4) If applying cold, applying as soon as the job ad goes up. Anything older than 3 days or so is already drowning in applications

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G1 that’s 100% how it should be handled everywhere.

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Landed all my jobs by cold applying but I’m currently interviewing for a position where I cold applied and then promptly DM-ed one of the team members to talk about the position

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Thank you! Hope your interview goes well and you land the role.

I’ve landed my last 4 jobs via LinkedIn by cold applying

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