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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare

www.wired.com Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare

Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the last two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.

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he keeps tweaking his resume, cutting it from 10 pages to two, then beefing it up to 24.

I’m no expert, but a 24 page resume?! I think I found your problem bud.

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- Anything past 2-3 pages and I won't read it.
  
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  Resumes are written for AI these days, not us.
  
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  Nope, because the automated pre-filter won’t even be able to understand it and will reject it outright.
  
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- Seriously, wtf? Even some of the most extensive CVs I've ever seen from people with 30+ year careers still only top out at maybe 5 or so pages. I'm guessing this dude is trying to do what every first timer does and put literally every thing they've ever learned on their resume, every course with the syllabus description, every hobby, and just attaching the full job description for every job they've ever done.
  
  I have a 2 page resume, and can still fit every skill, my last 5 roles, and even any relevant hobbies or other things to "stand out". There's literally no reason to have a resume this large, and it's going straight into the garbage.
  
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  Mine is 1 page. I never let it get longer, because most people I know don't read past the first page. If it's not important enough to go on page 1, it doesn't need to exist on the resume.
  
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I left tech a couple years ago. Left as in I couldn't find work, so I drifted through a few dead end jobs before my next career landed in my lap. And you know what? I'm happier doing this than I ever was working at a computer all day.

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- What’s your new career?
  
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  I work in nuclear power now. Valve work.
  
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- Lol bro come on you can’t just say that and then not tell us what the new career is.
  
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  My bad, I work in nuclear power now.
  
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I was laid off from a 16 year job at a tech hosting company and have been looking for a new job for about 4 months. It sucks

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There is a lot of Tech in Tech.

Are we talking about Senior Designer-Developers, Web-Designers with 5 years experience or SEO experts with 2 years?!

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- What about mechanical engineers? Aerodynamic? Microsystems? Electronic? Tech companies always want these types.
  
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  Yeah, I was mainly thinking about mainly software companies because that's my background but you make a very good point.
  
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In Germany we are still looking for people. Only catch is that you need to move to Germany and learn German. At least a little bit

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- From what I’ve seen nearly every position requires university-level German or native. Definitely impossible to achieve in less than 2 years at best haha
  
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  Companies get desperate. We now also hire non german speakers.
  
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- Literally was in Berlin a month ago, having lunch listening to two businessmen talk about how they cannot find enough cybersecurity talent anywhere, was kinda wild.
  
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  On cyber the need is real but the field is the size of walking across Europe and usually the need is that this special someone will walk everywhere to do everything as an expert for a regular salary.
  
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- Im not allowed to say the words I know.
  
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  Oh no :c
  
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The amount of tech recruiters I have calling and emailing me daily would indicate otherwise.

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- They're desperate for people that will work for less than a living wage for the area.
  
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  Idk about that. The jobs I get hit up for are all 225k-300k across various states.
  
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- They want the best and want to pay McDonald's wages for it. Or the workplace is so toxic nobody lasts a week there
  
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- It might mot be hard, but it's still a nightmare
  
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Personally I found factory work to be a good stop gap, doing the exact same motion over and over again until the machine breaks tickles my neurons the same way programming does

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As someone who literally just had to find a job or I would be SOL. No the market is fine rn. I sent out 200 apps. Got 5 interviews. 2 went to technical and both sent me an offer. It's roughly the same it was 2 years ago, which was roughly the same it was 2 years before that. Also I'm self taught so any of you kids with degrees will have an easier go than me

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- Which field?
  
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