How many job applications do you submit in a day?
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Honestly, when I was looking- I didn’t even count. When I had the energy, I was push them out.
I don’t have a carefree approach because when you’re applying to a lot of jobs, it’s an additional job to track them. I basically scheduled my days/ week on applying for jobs and the rest of my daily tasks. I was unemployed (full time) for 5 months and then landed two jobs (I was OE for a bit). One role I applied on their website, I located them through indeed and the other was on their website, I located them through LinkedIn. My current role I applied via their website and located them via LinkedIn. I’ve landed jobs through easy/ quick apply before, so I use all methods. I frequent indeed because it is still the number one job board. I’ve also noticed that roles are parsed from the ATS to their website quicker than to LinkedIns website. I still utilize zip recruiter, monster and career builder as well. For my previous two roles, I landed one in June and one in July. My new role, I landed in early august and started in September.
The first two weeks I put in as many as I had time to "customize" my resume, were a good fit, and I knew were good companies. I made sure to go directly to company site, apply for jobs i was at least 80% qualified, and use like keywords in my resume. For example if the ad requested Microsoft Office skills I changed Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. to read Microsoft Office. Most days that was three resumes. I saved the career job search link in a document. I saved a copy of the ad, added a date, etc. This helped me avoid re-applying. The third week I was less selective on companies and had my pattern down. I used the job alerts I sat up the first week to go to hiring companies and had a decent list of companies on my daily job search. I reached out to former coworkers and let it be known that i was looking. I noticed a pattern in when companies posted jobs and by the fourth week could have been more efficient in my search but had second interviews lined up. I think one day on my second week I found 10 jobs to apply for that I was qualified and wanted. That was one day and a virtual job fair. By late week 3 I had enough requests for interviews I backed off and expanded my spreadsheet to compare all benefits (salary, PTO, holidays, medical, work environment, drive time, desire etc). I printed off the job ad, wrote notes on it, printed off extra resumes, bought some plain folders with pockets. I went to the job with the folder, a pen, extra resumes. After/during each interview I made notes. Stored any handouts I was given. Thankfully I never had to job search during December early January. I feel that would have added more days to the search. Who you know will get you a job the quickest. Reach out to contacts. Let them know you are looking for "specific type of job". They will let you know of anything closely related. I got the third job I applied and the second interviewed with. For the next six months I received calls. Several were.. you applied for job A but we filled it but now have job B.
Yes am satisfied
When I was looking for work I’d apply to every job I was 100% qualified for (that interested me). I averaged about 2 a day.
Too many. Some days 1, other days 15.
After registering on the job site, I apply for positions based on the emails I receive. The platform analyzes my skill set and job match rates, then sends me suitable job opportunities. I only submit bids for those that align with my qualifications. :)
No one can help how easy it is to "apply" I think of it this way, Hiring managers can search all of linked in, or they can search the list of 1000 people who signaled interest. Those 1000 people applied because it is 0 to 5 minutes to apply. If I don't join the flood, I'm excluded from consideration at all. So everyone needs to do high volume applications, 10 a day for 90 days seems to be a common number (1000 applications to find a single job offer). Don't misunderstand me, you also need to work with recruiters and put in some perfectly targeted, customized applications. You can't only do high volume apps, but it doesn't make sense to me to never do high volume applications on principle or whatever.
I'm actively on the pursuit of a new adventure, so my PM activities are a minimum 5-10 per day, with research on each company to make sure it is a fit with no negative comments, or low pay bands
2-3 at present. When I was laid off, I was submitting double that.
I count weekly, 3-15 a week. It was the first thing I did every morning 5-7 days a week. I applied to almost 200 before landing a high paying job
The actual number depends on how desperate I am.
If I'm comfortable, I apply to ~5 a week. I try to track the specifics of every one (what skills they specifically stressed, what they were asking for, etc.). I sometimes have organized folders for this.
Once I'm desperate, I'm just rapid firing at everything I can see that even vaguely seems to match, or that I could even see myself doing.
Non for these days. And you know why?
Glassdoor is not the same as it once was. There are numerous bogus jobs that are designed to bring people within the LMIA requirements.All of their job listings have gmail.com domains and salaries that do not exist in the labor market (high enough).Glassdor was once a great platform, but it is now home to immigration scams.By the way, did you know that people from India spend $40,000 USD to such companies to obtain LMIA and bring them here? One of my friends confirmed that he paid to be here in Canada.
"Glassdor was once a great platform, but it is now home to immigration scams" - what does it mean? 🧐
As many as I can find that I'm interested in. With the almost negligible response rates, I'd say half are still "open", meaning I haven't heard either way. I know what that means, but find it unacceptable that there is no closure when it's easy to automate that.
Depends on the day. I probably average around 7-8. I spend more time trying to guess which Job posting/description that matches my resume perfectly will be a better chance of getting a call.
10
It is very important to tailor your cover letter for each role you apply for. With that in mind, I would say 4 or 5 max. It's very easy to doom scroll through linkedin and keep clicking Easy Apply but it's the lazy approach and I wonder if recruiters would pick up on it and so your application ends up at the bottom of the pile.
I am trying to send out about 20-30 daily. I have been at this for awhile, and in this job market, have decided its a numbers game. I am using: LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Indeed interchangeably to look for new job postings.
I am searching for a job since November 2024 as I laid off start searching and applying via different job sites but not receiving any calls or emails. I have no idea what’s gonna happened in 2025. Struggling on daily basis 😞
I was out of work from oct 2023 thru dec 2024. Every app I submitted I printed to PDF, Started the PDF file name with YYYY.MM.DD and thanks to titles being in the tabs, the default then was title, company and anything specific about it (nights / 2nd shift / etc)
I have 1341 PDF files. in that 14 month period. So that's about 100 a month, roughly 25 per week, 5 per weekday average.
Although I would also say, the first 3 months I wasn't as aggressive ... so I would say probably 100 in total the first 3 months, leaving 1200 or so in 11 months ..
I kept records so that unemployment would have the data needed, and also because I needed to look back several times, to find an app that aligned with interviews from applications 2 and 3 months prior .. yes ..I said 3 months .. One company, Johns Hopkins took FOUR FULL MONTHS before they got back to me for an interview!
100+
Depends on how many new jobs I have seen. At first it's 20 or a few more. But after about 5 days it's down to nearly 1 to 3
I used to send three applications a day . Since January 1, I haven't seen many new job posts. A lot of them are ghost jobs from LinkedIn. So maybe 3 a week.
I've been steady at 2-3 a day right now, My company spontaneously let everyone go Jan. 3rd, At this point I have just about applied to every open Online or Public job that wasn't fast food or retail available. I unfortunately live in a college town and my car while reliable to go maybe 20-25miles out I can't trust past that at the moment.