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I only hear back from 30% of my applications (I send about 25-30 a week) and 29.5% of those are automated rejection emails, the remaining 0.5% is an interview request.
There's really no way to tell. Some companies will stop taking applications quickly and get busy contacting people they want to interview. Other companies will really take their time. In a lot of cases companies don't even send out rejections, they only contact the likely candidates. So in a lot of cases people just get ghosted and never hear a word.
I haven't been hearing anything for about three weeks on average. Sometimes I hear the next day, sometimes I don't hear for several months. But I would say three weeks is becoming the new normal based on all the records I've been keeping.
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I just told my dad today where I applied to and he said, “I would’ve heard something by now. I’m so frustrated at him! He told me that he put in money for me in a brokerage account and how he’d like that back. They all want me to work at Publix and I don’t want to work at Publix when I worked for him making way more what Publix can give!😢
I’ve applied for positions back in November/december, maybe even farther back and still have not heard anything back other than the confirmation email that I applied. So, that’s how life is…