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.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    71·
    4 days ago
    1. I report any email that is spam as spam, so my inbox is quite clean and I don’t miss anything
    2. I applied to ~600 positions, averaging about 100 positions an hour. You just have to be faster with the application process; don’t customize your resume, don’t read the job description, just apply
    • 6jarjar6@lemmy.sdf.org
      9·
      4 days ago

      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?

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
        6·
        4 days ago

        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)

        • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 days ago

          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

          • Mothra@mander.xyz
            4·
            3 days ago

            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.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      3 days ago

      My problem with that is that Google has a fucking mind all its own and will automatically file whatever the hell it feels like as spam, and I have no clue how to change those options, especially when I have no idea what server to expect an interview schedule email to even come from.