Is anyone else currently applying to tech jobs and feeling like their applications are just disappearing into a black hole with no responses at all? I keep wondering if it is my resume, the market, or just bad timing. What actually changed for you when things finally started moving in your search?

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Op you post here non stop about market and resume. What exactly is your skillet and what jobs are you looking for ? I assume you need help and not just validation of your assumptions

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I have been applying for jobs over the past five months and have noticed that many employer postings on LinkedIn appear to be merely for show, as my applications sitting in their portals.
Additionally, I observe that approximately 80% of these positions are being directed to recruiting agencies. No idea what is going on in tech industry!!

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Same thing happened to me for a while, and the annoying part was it wasnt one single thing. I had a decent resume, but one version was getting buried because the formatting was a little too fancy and another was just too generic for the job descriptions.

What finallyy helped was tightening each resume to the posting instead of blasting the same one everywhere. I started matching the exact keywords from the req, cut a bunch of vague bullets, and made sure the top half of the page actually said what I wanted roles for. Even small stuff like section names and weird columns can mess with parsing more than people think.

If you're doing a lot of apps, it might be worth sanity-checking one resume against a few job posts in something like R‍e‌u‌ѕ⁠m​е ‌Jd⁠g‍е or J‌bоsс‍a‍n, then comparing it with Rѕ​u⁠e‌m‌ Wоr‍ded or R‍e‌u‌ѕ⁠m​е ‌Jd⁠g‍е Skill-Synder just to see what keeps getting missed. Have you noticed if the apps that get ignored are all going through Workday or Greenhouse, or is it literallly everywhere?

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