I’m sure this must sound stupid for many, but I never get any responses, until like 3 days later when I check my spam folder and realize my scheduled interview appointment came from some random server that got deleted as spam mail.
How the hell do people get jobs online? I’ve only ever landed a job in person.
LinkedIn has Easy Apply or Quick Apply, I forget the name. The shotgun approach is best and I relied heavily on quantity over quality. Why write a cover letter for a job when I can apply to 10 others without that requirement?
This is the correct way to do it. Even when I was hiring, I much preferred opening Quick Apply positions. I don’t want to waste your time either (and I sure as hell am not reading cover letters)
This is oddly comforting. So many websites and opinion articles push the idea of painstakingly tailoring a resume, then hunting down the listing on the website and re-filling in that same resume twice.
On top of that they make you feel like you’re the problem when that doesn’t work and you’ve wasted three hours of your time to maybe get rejected six weeks later.
Thank you for being honest. This will save a lot of time and stress going forward. /gen
Depends on the type of job. In my industry you’d be lucky to find more than 10 job openings in the whole country per month. You bet you want to tailor the everything out of the resume and cover letters.
For basic jobs like retail, you can apply with AI written slop and nobody will notice. All they need to know is your availability.