cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52088358
I know the market is ass rn, I’ve been looking for a job since I graduated in November of last year with no luck. Every application I get a response like “you are great, your skills are great, you meet every criteria but we found someone better”. I recently decided to start replying to emails to ask why I wasn’t picked (I reply only to emails that aren’t from no-reply or if the say I can ask for feedback). So far I have not even received one reply. Am I wasting my time??? I feel like it’s just from automated systems and they don’t even look at it. Is everything literally a ghost job?? If you have ever asked for feedback have you gotten anything useful from it?
Very, very rarely. One time I did, though, was because I didn’t study the topic enough. I asked an insider, a current employee, friend-of-a-friend, for advice. They said to not focus on it and only on my experience. After I did t get any info back from HR, I asked and promised I’d only reply with “thank you”. They said I bombed the interview because I didn’t cover the topic enough. My insider was either wrong or misled me.
One other time they actually called me back later and emphasized I was missing the key point. I had 90% of what they wanted but the 10% included a deal breaker.
Mind you, this is HUNDREDS of applications.