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🐦Thank you for the uplifting video as I watch it on a bright Sunday morning.☀

I have had the best luck with jobs that forgo the ATS process altogether and ask for an old fashioned cover letter. A good idea for employers is to ask candidates a random question in the listing, like what is your favorite colour, and have them mention that in the first sentence of the cover letter. This weeds out everyone who is not carefully reading the posting.

"...so, it sounds like from your feedback, you would be interested in LinkedIn Games and a Catch Up tab."

Fantastic video as always thanks for the advice! Ill definitely be adopting all of these

im currently unemployed looking for a job, i have been in insurance the past 6 years, minus 3 month stint in field marketing back in 2023. im finding myself getting more and more frustrated with the process of finding a job. just seems so tedious to apply for numerous positions getting more and more rejections. i know ill eventually find something but it is really disheartening to apply for so many jobs and getting very little in return from prospective employers.

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It's not just Linkedin. It's all the job board sits.

I'm literally about to be homeless again. Fuck Biden.

The job market is simply ridiculous no matter what you do right and ghost jobs listings and employers being unprofessional and ghosting people instead of letting them know if they got the job or not after many rounds of interviews or telling job they feel their the right person for the job, pisses me off til no end, people just want a job to provide for themselves their families and survive and their playing all these stupid games, making things difficult when it doesn’t have to be wasting peoples time and money to try and get tot these jobs for these interviews and stuff and it truly infuriates me, where do they get off thinking this is okay honestly smh, no excuses for it

If I am looking for a role, I no longer use LinkedIn. If I find a role there, I go to the company website and apply directly. EasyApply has bastardized the application process. I did QA testing of applying using EasyApply via LinkedIn and via the company website. I got better traction using the latter option.

You’re not factoring in the fact that most ATS software tracks where applications come from and the easy apply and recruiting teams are aware of this and in reality it’s no longer an issue. Most major ats systems rank a resume lower if it comes from easy apply in the internal ranking system.

Yeah, ghost jobs are a problem but there is simply not enough demand for workforce from companies. Most companies would rather cut costs or raise prices of their products than hire new people. Of course their products or services will be of worse quality but in the end they care only about next quarter numbers, nothing else.

I am living Canada and I had interviewed for 4 or 5 positions from a really famous telecom company…and none of them really turned into a job offer… for each position I was interviewed for, there are at least 2 rounds of interviews, a case study, a presentation, and then they say they have no budget 🤑what a process

I couldn't find a software job inspite 5 years experience. I am now building my own SaaS. If you can't find work, make work. I know my worth.

i never used it. waste. i had a profile but never got a job via bs emails etc. it was always trough friends. but thu im an electrical engineer, i worked up to 2015. im never going back to bs capitalism. i am healthy, live freely, no more wage slave, i have not much but its enough. i encourage everyone to get out of capitalism. our time on this planet is limited. we don need objects and bs friendships and empty work just to enslave us and squeeze us. no tnx. let all the social apps DIE. tinder fb linkedin, X. dead

This is all correct and actually I think it's probably worse than this. But there is a better way of doing stuff. Cody say's the process should have a manual aspect to it, I say you shouldn't apply for active jobs at all!

LinkedIn has nothing to do with it. The tech job market is bad because most roles are being outsourced to India were IT workers are paid less than half what they're paid in the West.

Great advice! Testing is a great skill to have and to continue to improve on.

I have mixed feelings about in-office jobs. Having worked on an office for many years not sure being co-located means collaboration. Also lots of geographies don't offer the same opportunities that some areas do. Depends on where you live.

hi cody do you need editor?

AI wrangles and predicts data that is from the internet. It cannot design or architect larger systems

They are doing much more than this. It's ridiculous. I am tired of the crap over there, nothing but unreal junk.

Theres ways to Easy Apply with AI programs through LinkedIN now where people can spam apply to 1,000 jobs in a day making things much worse.

Great advise!

I was watching "Office Space". I paused it for a moment to view this video. This video and other videos I've viewed about jobs makes me appreciate that movie even more than I already did.

🐣 yeah, that's the second reason I work off a single (linked) todo list. My manager isn't the only one who forgets, so do I! Going through that list at the end of the sprint or year reminds me that I did actually accomplish more than I thought, before being consumed and distracted by the latest stubborn bug/issue for hours/days.

🐷 Fun video. Great to see the salary transparency, and I liked the "work-life-balanced" video 🙂

Is interesting , then you see executives telling people on the news that they cannot find anyone to do the job they are looking for

🐦 first of your videos I've seen, thank the algorithm. Great presentation and good insight I didn't know. Checking out some of your other videos now! Tip: the quick face zoom-ins got distracting. Once or twice is ok. maybe replace the rest with slower zooms that go half as far.

This job market is insane. I’m one of those 1000 appliers, and finding work has been so hard, even outside of tech is hard. Good luck applying to McD’s.

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Most are offshore in low cost markets.

Social Media Apps destroyed Socializing. Dating Apps destroyed Dating. Job Board Apps destroyed Job Hunting. Online Shopping destroyed Small Businesses. So many things we turn into an App eventually end up ruining the very experience it was designed to enhance.

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Missed your videos bro

I never saw the value of unit testing until this year! My new years resolution last year was to increase my unit test output. We ran into issues were random minor things would break overtime and we didn't notice it until a QA or a client reported it. After writing unit tests, we catch so many potential issues before they get merged that it saves us time later on. Everyone should definitely write unit and e2e tests it will save you so much time later on

After 13 yeara in IT - I realized that the main skill is to own Bitcoin. IT industry is a inflated balloon. You will always be laid off after some time. No stability. And also - never take credit or mortgage 😉😊

Both LinkedIn and Indeed have ruined jobhunting. Indeed is nothing but a bunch of scam jobs. Literally applied for a job, instantly I got an interview request. I messaged them on indeed and told them the date and time they suggested would work. In their interview request it also said to text them my full name and date that works. Over a four day span, i sent three messages on indeed three text messages and two phone calls and voicemails. They never got back to me to confirm that the interview was happening. They sent me the message on a Saturday night. The interview was supposed to be on Wednesday at noon. The address they put in the invitation where the interview was gonna take place, was some real estate office. And I was applying for a business development role with a healthcare company.

True, the hype of good life is software development led many careershifters to flock in an already narrowing tunnel of jobs

Testing is also a form of documentation - arguably the best form. TDD (test driven development) will help you build testable code, rather than finding out at the end that you have untestable code.

Ghost jobs and having to game the ATS systems that filter qualified candidates. Yeah people are having a tough time with this noise.

The jobs are coming back when I say they are coming back. Catfish?!

working by itself is already a drag and now we are even being ghosted hahahaha

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Agreed Linkedin has turned into a dumping ground of fake jobs and easy apply where employers are just collecting resumes. Seeing 100+ applicants on EVERY position is just daunting and overwhelming for both sides.

I think people conflate being introverted with not having social skills or being able to communicate well. It's critical to be able to work well with a group and communicate your ideas! Yeah you don't have to talk a lot, but when it comes time to explain you have to be able to do it

I use AI to point me in the right direction for projects but I like to build the code on my own.

I'd like to add, get more comfortable with cloud technologies. Even if devops isn't your cup of tea, I'm seeing a lot of companies putting the cloud work on the individual teams.

BS! Accumulate money is the only way to set any engineer free!

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