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AWS cloud application architect. Had an on-site interview with AWS a few days ago and just got an email saying they want to talk to me about next steps. The role is cloud application architect but I want to ask them about the senior cloud application architect role. I have all the relevant experience for that role and feel like I’d be a better fit for that senior role. How should I approach this conversation? Is this even possible? Amazon
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Quality over quantity bro!! That is an insane amount of job apps and I would doubt that any of them are very tailored to the specific roles. This isn't a great approach in this job market, just being honest. You need to network, tailor everything and be thoughtful in your applications
Have you tried using AI to compare your resume with each job post?
I’m not in data analytics or data science but thought I would chime in. When I was laid off over two years ago I tried to apply to 25 to 50 jobs a day. I was applying for product management jobs, but I took the same approach. I ended up with one to seven job interviews a week. I applied for remote only, hybrid, and onsite jobs. Yes, it was quantity over quality, but I also checked LinkedIn to see if I was connected to anyone at the company, and reached out to the recruiter if they were listed. I also reached out to people with my title at those companies to network with. In terms of ATS ready resumes, make sure you have as many buzzwords for your role as possible in each bullet point. Make sure each bullet point starts with a verb, states what you did, and the outcome of what you did with a numerical outcome if possible. Try to use the same number of bullet points for each role. It scores your resume based on titles and buzzwords. It may also look for years of experience and education. Good luck!
Also, if you’re over 40 and in high tech, you’re not squeezing everything onto a single page. That’s nuts. The tools on both ends are awful.
Job market is really tough - it took me 10 months to finally get a job. I was in a same place like you: sending applications to hundreds of places every week & nothing happening. Solution I found: random craigslist posting a few states over. Competition is tough too: you send 500-700 applications out to different places, those places receive 500-1000 applications, so my advice: try to find less travelled places
Sometimes I wonder if the entire employee and employer relationship is broken. I feel that an employer should be seeking and contacting potential employees, not the other way around. Perhaps a contracting model works better, or self employment.
I don’t even receive rejection letters , some reply others do not.
The most important thing in the resume is the working experience section nowadays. If you don't have enough experience tailoring your resume won't work at all. I am seeing even 2 to 3 years experienced candidates getting auto rejected lol. People here who say omg tailor your resume omg quantity over quality probably never searched for a job in this climate.
Facing same issue
The loop for to receive job is 1500 applications and min 3-6 month . U need change your cv for every job offer description
How much time did you spend doing that? Your time might be better spent reading up on some of the tech stacks listed on those jobs and doing projects in them. That'll help you fit those jobs better.
Seems like the hiring companies are putting in the same level of effort in rejecting you as you are in applying. Seriously 600 resumes? Are you shooting in the wind?
Try embedding ATS friendly keywords in invisible HTML
Assuming you are spending 12 hours solid per day, 7 days per week, you are spending between 7 and 10 minutes on finding, reviewing, tailoring and applying for each position. I wonder what could possibly be going wrong?
I never heard about ATS, until a couple weeks ago while interviewing w/ a firm. The recruiter told me what was happening. I edited MY resume per her suggestions...didn't really help.
How full of s**** are people who make posts like this? 500 in a week, huh? Well, lets break that down, if you did that for 8 hours a day, that means you submitted a resume every 4.8 minutes. If you didn't sleep and just did it all day long for 7 days, that means you submitted a resume every 20.6 minutes. I'm not even going to bother with 700. Not only are there not even that many jobs to apply to, it isn't physically possible to do it. People like this love to pat themselves on the back for "HOW MUCH HARDER THEY'RE TRYING THAN THE REST OF US", but they're just full of it.
I have a Business Analyst open position at my company if you are interested. There may be other similar roles on the careers page. Best of luck.
https://jobs.solugenix.com/portal/?a=j7jdnw2npsguo57g9jjg17tlzkficz0aab2o2fy8c2ka87kw291c1sk86uyplec8&compid=0&hsLang=en#/jobs/24299595?jobtitle=Business+Analyst
I’ve never had any success with this approach. Instead I do one or both of two other things: I apply to an institution that uses applications (and write a good one) or I find a trade show / conference / convention & go to meet people in person, show off my knowledge of their products & eventually, someone says “wow, you know this so well, you should work for us” — at which point, I say I’d like to, pull out my resume & hand it to them (which then almost always bypasses the ATS.
A lot more investment than sending out 700+ applications, but people hire people,… especially people they like or are impressed with.
I think it’s better to apply directly on companies websites. Linkedin etc are focused on keeping people engaged and that doesn’t necessarily translate into job conversions. That should be the key metric for any of these job portals. Also, Unless it’s an entry position, the application should be very specific to the job opening.
I'm in a similar situation
Same with me. But I am still optimistic. Cheers!