I have been applying via linkedin, company portal which show up on google search but somehow nothing is working out, cold dm, emails almost all eventually ending in radio silence. Not asking for some shortcut just that it all isn’t making sense.
I have been applying via linkedin, company portal which show up on google search but somehow nothing is working out, cold dm, emails almost all eventually ending in radio silence. Not asking for some shortcut just that it all isn’t making sense.
You use the contacts you gained during your studies and internships to get your foot inside the door and a chance to speak to a human.
The linkedin approach only works when a company headhunts, not when a worker does the same, in my experience.
Chasing offers by headhunters is such a miserable experience. Your résumé will be one amongst hundreds of applicants, most of which will be filtered out by AI before a human ever reads them (using opaque logic that could disqualify you for no reason whatsoever, so if you never hear back after many applications there’s a good chance something in your résumé is tripping their filter and there’s no way to know what it is).
And the headhunter is probably a third-party hire not affiliated with the actual team, so the first interview will be with someone who doesn’t know what questions to ask and you have to somehow make a good impression without being able to show off any of your knowledge. Basically showing good vibes or whatever. Good luck if you’re a talented but socially awkward person!
Then you’ll have to go through the whole interview process again once they hand you over to the people who hired them and actually know what they need. At this point you’ve finally reached what was once the starting line of the hiring process.
TL;DR: Fuck LinkedIn and modern hiring.
Yeah, a third-party headhunter isn’t worth it. When <friend from school> reaches out and says their team at <company> needs someone with <skill set> and they thought of you then it’s another question completely. :)