Layoffs may not be mounting, but it’s getting harder to find a job in a labor market where hiring is “anemic” as tariff-driven economic uncertainty has put a chill on some employers.
I hear you buddy. How many applications are you putting in per day? It sucks, I know, but you should be doing like 20 a day. Are you using the other sites like dice, indeed? Is there a specific technology that you have been using primarily for the last 10 years?
I was putting in about a dozen per day on LinkedIn and was getting nowhere. Then after a few weeks there weren’t a dozen places left to apply at. So now I do that about twice a week and look up posts created in a week’s time.
My main skills over the last 10 years have been HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the React framework. I just got done cramming Python so I can learn Flask.
Dice and Indeed have traditionally only gotten me third party recruiters and that never ends well or is profitable.
Yeah, I stay away from recruiters these days. They seem to have one thing for me and if I don’t get it than they never consider me again. That’s not how recruiters are supposed to work lol.
Do you have a portfolio or GitHub with some work on it? I ended up having to put a bunch of random crap on GitHub. I don’t think anybody looks at it they just want to see something there.
Also, how is your resume looking? Have you gotten feedback on it? I recall there being a Reddit community specifically for resume help. And whenever you can, you should send a—cover letter—I just threw up a little. It all feels like such a waste of time…
Most of the places I interviewed with are looking to go full serverless, so that’s less interest in Flask—but I still saw a fair amount of Python gigs.
I got shot down a ton because my background isn’t really in serverless stuff. Sure I can do it, but it’s not what my work experience shows. I ended up just putting AWS, and all those others, on my resume even though I’ve not actually worked with it in production.
Right now I’m with a company who is using SvelteKit on Cloudflare, and it’s lovely. However, the Svelte market is really small and I’m not sure how well that will help me if this company fails.
I don’t have any other options that don’t involve unskilled labor. I’m also not a young man anymore.
I hear you buddy. How many applications are you putting in per day? It sucks, I know, but you should be doing like 20 a day. Are you using the other sites like dice, indeed? Is there a specific technology that you have been using primarily for the last 10 years?
I was putting in about a dozen per day on LinkedIn and was getting nowhere. Then after a few weeks there weren’t a dozen places left to apply at. So now I do that about twice a week and look up posts created in a week’s time.
My main skills over the last 10 years have been HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the React framework. I just got done cramming Python so I can learn Flask.
Dice and Indeed have traditionally only gotten me third party recruiters and that never ends well or is profitable.
Yeah, I stay away from recruiters these days. They seem to have one thing for me and if I don’t get it than they never consider me again. That’s not how recruiters are supposed to work lol.
Do you have a portfolio or GitHub with some work on it? I ended up having to put a bunch of random crap on GitHub. I don’t think anybody looks at it they just want to see something there.
Also, how is your resume looking? Have you gotten feedback on it? I recall there being a Reddit community specifically for resume help. And whenever you can, you should send a—cover letter—I just threw up a little. It all feels like such a waste of time…
Most of the places I interviewed with are looking to go full serverless, so that’s less interest in Flask—but I still saw a fair amount of Python gigs.
I got shot down a ton because my background isn’t really in serverless stuff. Sure I can do it, but it’s not what my work experience shows. I ended up just putting AWS, and all those others, on my resume even though I’ve not actually worked with it in production.
Right now I’m with a company who is using SvelteKit on Cloudflare, and it’s lovely. However, the Svelte market is really small and I’m not sure how well that will help me if this company fails.
I’m actually aiming for AWS certs so hopefully my stack will be applicable.