No, it hasn't. I wish people would stop pushing the myth that you're completing with 1000s of people just because 1000s clicked the easy apply button. When I hired people, I might get 300 resumes but 250 might be from another country, 40 nothing even related to the job, so in reality I had about 10 resumes to look at. This year isn't any more difficult than any other year. I put out 3 applications got 3 interviews and 2 offers.
It's absolutely the linkedin's fault, I wasted the whole year trying to get hired. I have both the degree and experience it's impossible to defeat the noise.
I'm on the job search side. When you say to apply on the company's website, it often means filling out everything on your LinkedIn or CV again. When AI pulls data from LinkedIn with autofill and messes everything up? It's terrible. Having to fill out everything over and over again wastes time that could be invested in finding another opportunity. I like LinkedIn's easy apply option. It's useful for those who are applying. What's missing is common sense both in the job description and in the person applying. The other day there was a job opening for a data engineer asking for knowledge of React and Golang.
@@sandramattosmalaquias2796 Agreed. Add job banks as well. Total waste of time. I got a job through LinkedIn with the easy button during covid. But that’s because I applied faster and my profile was more SEO friendly than everyone else. I think people who complain of poor results are probably misguided blaming the tool instead of understanding how to properly use the tool like people who submit poorly formatted resumes with spelling mistakes then blame the hiring manager.
I recently looked at a lot of jobs for my students for recruiting purposes. There were a lot of easy apply jobs. But yes, there are also a ton of jobs that have 1k applicants without easy apply
Well, as of today (November 2024), nobody is really hiring for most of tech jobs unless your resume is tailored to AI or machine learning. The best way to get hired is to reach within your network and ask around if there is anything available, but in this economy it will be hard. Otherwise, i suspect things will get better in 2025
@@andreaskayy AI, ML and neural networks are the hot topics of the moment and many companies are trying to implement some sort of AI solution that fits their needs or business, I guess if you have some background on AI (or the previously mentioned fields) you might as well tailor your resume towards the current market hype, I would like to think that the odds of getting hired would certainly increase. I would also avoid applying to online jobs on LinkedIn, since the job market appears to be severely saturated due to all those massive layoffs from big tech companies; like I said before reaching within your own network could yield better results.
@@andreaskayy not sure if that question is directed towards me. I make sure the first 3-4 bullet points are the skillets most applicable toward the job and skillset, so if I list all- then I shuffle them around per the job description.
I took a look at Cody’s LinkedIn profile and there’s a few problems with it. He probably has tons of experience but his LinkedIn profile lacks many key phrases and number of connections is quite low. This results in low SEO scoring on his Linkedin profile which can result in employers not being able to find him easily or placed lower on the list compared to profiles that scores very well. It’s akin to a resume format that scores well with employers or is off putting or have spelling mistakes. It feels some observations might be misguided.
@@andreaskayy I've been posting job applications on upwork for 1 year and there isnt enough jobs to apply to most are fake postings and still have got any job on there
@@andreaskayy not really there are full time and part time jobs and there are jobs that last for 3 months. mostly its hourly based work under a contract. upwork shows up in google job searches
I disagree with manual processes for applying. Ever submitted an application through a job bank? And I agree with too many ghost jobs. Employers are contributing to this problem. But the fact the hiring process is very manual and biased. The recruiter will take the path of least resistance. Quite often it’s not about being the best candidate in a pool of candidates. Anyone who says otherwise is a lot of bull. An employer is not going through 10k applications. It’s about being with the first 10 applicants because employers don’t hire for the best candidate. They hire based on the first good enough candidate which is actually kinda lazy. So no, I don’t agree with more manual methods of applying. It is the application speed to get ahead of the queue to give you more chance. This is how I found a job during the pandemic even though there were far more qualified people than me.
@@andreaskayybecause I’m told by hiring managers that they don’t review all applications and they do pick the first qualified candidate and further justify the decision based on effort of search. For the second point of 40-50 applications per hour, that why when alerts happen you need to apply within first 5-10mins and I can do this during work hours. I encountered the same issue during the pandemic when I was jobless but got back on my feet quickly simply by first in line. You wait too long than the number of applicants pile up. But this happens regardless if LinkedIn is there or not.
@andreaskayy Because hiring managers tell me that they’re not to going to review 10K applications but rather review in batches of 10-20 resumes until they either find the good enough candidate or hit the end of the entire pile. This means if the employer finds such employee in the 1st or 2nd batch and you’re number 100 then you have no chance to even get interviewed. And it’s very rare that an employer hits the end of the pile. But this pattern of hiring happens even before LinkedIn.
The uncertain global political landscape and the US presidential election in partcilular made a lot of owners and investors nervous. I've got interviews from Easy apply ads as well as regular applications. Sure, shitty UX creates an artificial bottle neck that if you can be bothered to go through it might short-list you, but that's not a quality based short-list anyway. It's just the short-list of the most desperate applicants. Having a bigger pool of resumes with automated parsing on keywords and other things will probably give companies better candidates. Make sure your resume is as good as it can be and can be parsed as text though.
True having an ATS friendly CV with good keywords in it is super important. Check the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones, it seems like companies and investors are looking more confidently into the future since the election.
I'm on the job search side. When you say to apply on the company's website, it often means filling out everything on your LinkedIn or CV again. When AI pulls data from LinkedIn with autofill and messes everything up? It's terrible. Having to fill out everything over and over again wastes time that could be invested in finding another opportunity. I like LinkedIn's easy apply option. It's useful for those who are applying. What's missing is common sense both in the job description and in the person applying. The other day there was a job opening for a data engineer asking for knowledge of React and Golang.
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So, has LinkedIn destroyed the job market? And easy apply: Yay or Nay?
What's your opinion?
It's crazy the amount of applicants to these positions, well over 1k
Nay, maybe a minor contributor. There's a lot more happening that impacts software engineering. It is time to transition to AI
No, it hasn't. I wish people would stop pushing the myth that you're completing with 1000s of people just because 1000s clicked the easy apply button. When I hired people, I might get 300 resumes but 250 might be from another country, 40 nothing even related to the job, so in reality I had about 10 resumes to look at. This year isn't any more difficult than any other year. I put out 3 applications got 3 interviews and 2 offers.
@@joshbacher5871 Yeah, but not many actually qualified. People are just clicking
@@imdaddio Not at all. AI is nowhere near what people make it to be.
It's absolutely the linkedin's fault, I wasted the whole year trying to get hired. I have both the degree and experience it's impossible to defeat the noise.
Oh man, that's terrible! Sorry to hear that. Are you not getting invited to interviews at all?
I'm on the job search side. When you say to apply on the company's website, it often means filling out everything on your LinkedIn or CV again. When AI pulls data from LinkedIn with autofill and messes everything up? It's terrible.
Having to fill out everything over and over again wastes time that could be invested in finding another opportunity.
I like LinkedIn's easy apply option. It's useful for those who are applying. What's missing is common sense both in the job description and in the person applying.
The other day there was a job opening for a data engineer asking for knowledge of React and Golang.
It's not really making it better that everyone uses LinkedIn profiles for candidate selection, isn't it?
@@sandramattosmalaquias2796 Agreed. Add job banks as well. Total waste of time. I got a job through LinkedIn with the easy button during covid. But that’s because I applied faster and my profile was more SEO friendly than everyone else. I think people who complain of poor results are probably misguided blaming the tool instead of understanding how to properly use the tool like people who submit poorly formatted resumes with spelling mistakes then blame the hiring manager.
Most jobs aren’t easy apply, this is a smooth brained analysis. He thinks the small portion of jobs that use it ruined the entire job market? Dumb
I recently looked at a lot of jobs for my students for recruiting purposes. There were a lot of easy apply jobs. But yes, there are also a ton of jobs that have 1k applicants without easy apply
Well, as of today (November 2024), nobody is really hiring for most of tech jobs unless your resume is tailored to AI or machine learning. The best way to get hired is to reach within your network and ask around if there is anything available, but in this economy it will be hard. Otherwise, i suspect things will get better in 2025
I also have high hopes for 2025. With AI or ML tailored you mean that it can be analyzed easily by algorithms, right?
@@andreaskayy AI, ML and neural networks are the hot topics of the moment and many companies are trying to implement some sort of AI solution that fits their needs or business, I guess if you have some background on AI (or the previously mentioned fields) you might as well tailor your resume towards the current market hype, I would like to think that the odds of getting hired would certainly increase. I would also avoid applying to online jobs on LinkedIn, since the job market appears to be severely saturated due to all those massive layoffs from big tech companies; like I said before reaching within your own network could yield better results.
Listening to this while applying to jobs . . . 260jobs in the last 2 months . . .
Ufff. Keep going, you'll make it. Maybe it's time to tune your cv a bit if you are unsuccessful
Each CV and resume I taylor specific to the job
My master resume had 8-12 bullet points per job, then each job I apply to depending upon the job description has 2-5 bullet points max
So you can't even put in all the information on job applications?
@@andreaskayy not sure if that question is directed towards me. I make sure the first 3-4 bullet points are the skillets most applicable toward the job and skillset, so if I list all- then I shuffle them around per the job description.
I took a look at Cody’s LinkedIn profile and there’s a few problems with it. He probably has tons of experience but his LinkedIn profile lacks many key phrases and number of connections is quite low. This results in low SEO scoring on his Linkedin profile which can result in employers not being able to find him easily or placed lower on the list compared to profiles that scores very well. It’s akin to a resume format that scores well with employers or is off putting or have spelling mistakes. It feels some observations might be misguided.
the easy apply resumes go to the person who posted the jobs email address and tha person cna import them into there hr app.
Good to know. Do you have any background info on the quality of easy apply imports vs "normal" applications?
@@andreaskayy I've been posting job applications on upwork for 1 year and there isnt enough jobs to apply to most are fake postings and still have got any job on there
Isn't upwork more for hiring freelancers? Are you doing freelance work?
@@andreaskayy not really there are full time and part time jobs and there are jobs that last for 3 months. mostly its hourly based work under a contract. upwork shows up in google job searches
I disagree with manual processes for applying. Ever submitted an application through a job bank? And I agree with too many ghost jobs. Employers are contributing to this problem. But the fact the hiring process is very manual and biased. The recruiter will take the path of least resistance. Quite often it’s not about being the best candidate in a pool of candidates. Anyone who says otherwise is a lot of bull. An employer is not going through 10k applications. It’s about being with the first 10 applicants because employers don’t hire for the best candidate. They hire based on the first good enough candidate which is actually kinda lazy. So no, I don’t agree with more manual methods of applying. It is the application speed to get ahead of the queue to give you more chance. This is how I found a job during the pandemic even though there were far more qualified people than me.
That's even worse, because most jobs have 40, 50 applicants after one hour. 🙈 How do you know that they are taking this lazy approach?
@@andreaskayybecause I’m told by hiring managers that they don’t review all applications and they do pick the first qualified candidate and further justify the decision based on effort of search. For the second point of 40-50 applications per hour, that why when alerts happen you need to apply within first 5-10mins and I can do this during work hours. I encountered the same issue during the pandemic when I was jobless but got back on my feet quickly simply by first in line. You wait too long than the number of applicants pile up. But this happens regardless if LinkedIn is there or not.
@andreaskayy Because hiring managers tell me that they’re not to going to review 10K applications but rather review in batches of 10-20 resumes until they either find the good enough candidate or hit the end of the entire pile. This means if the employer finds such employee in the 1st or 2nd batch and you’re number 100 then you have no chance to even get interviewed. And it’s very rare that an employer hits the end of the pile. But this pattern of hiring happens even before LinkedIn.
Thank you so much for this insight! People need to know this to change their application process.
The uncertain global political landscape and the US presidential election in partcilular made a lot of owners and investors nervous. I've got interviews from Easy apply ads as well as regular applications. Sure, shitty UX creates an artificial bottle neck that if you can be bothered to go through it might short-list you, but that's not a quality based short-list anyway. It's just the short-list of the most desperate applicants. Having a bigger pool of resumes with automated parsing on keywords and other things will probably give companies better candidates. Make sure your resume is as good as it can be and can be parsed as text though.
True having an ATS friendly CV with good keywords in it is super important.
Check the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones, it seems like companies and investors are looking more confidently into the future since the election.
what an idiot, i think AI made him lost his job
That's why I post on TH-cam. You would never see a comment like that on LinkedIn. I don't agree, but that's fine. 👍
I'm on the job search side. When you say to apply on the company's website, it often means filling out everything on your LinkedIn or CV again. When AI pulls data from LinkedIn with autofill and messes everything up? It's terrible.
Having to fill out everything over and over again wastes time that could be invested in finding another opportunity.
I like LinkedIn's easy apply option. It's useful for those who are applying. What's missing is common sense both in the job description and in the person applying.
The other day there was a job opening for a data engineer asking for knowledge of React and Golang.