I am a software quality assurance engineer with highly experienced healthcare domain.
Struggling to get job, even I am looking from October 2024 to change as I was aware about the layoff. Applied to more than 1000 jobs and got to attend 2 interviews, later ghosted by recruiters.
Is everyone facing same issues? Or is it me? I am trying to improve my skills set as well. Faced many scams as well fake calls/fake interviews/fake assignments :(

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I have also been looking since around the same time. I was barely getting any answers after applying. Also I still had a job and I was cautious about putting the "open to work" banner on LinkedIn.

But I got laid off recently so now that I'm officially unemployed and I have the banner on and it seems I'm getting a bit more traction on (at least on LinkedIn).

It might also be that the job market is currently more favorable, hard to tell.

Good luck to you

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I agree, also I have done that while while I was still employed at a previous job. Thing is, with this latest job, the business wasn't running very smoothly, and I had a feeling that if I did a move like that they'd start looking for reasons to fire me. Getting laid off is less "damaging" financially than getting fired.

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I was laid off in July 2024. Been applying non-stop since the day I got the label (unemployed). 15+ years of experience, great looking resume and 2000+ applications that barely got me 3-5 solid interviews that led to no offer so welcome to the club and hopefully 2025 will be a better year for all of us here trying to find living

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