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.
Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
Submitted 1 year ago by Hydrogen@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-jobs-layoffs-hiring/
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Triple_B@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s your new career?
Triple_B@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I work in nuclear power now. Valve work.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol bro come on you can’t just say that and then not tell us what the new career is.
Triple_B@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
My bad, I work in nuclear power now.
Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 1 year ago
I get random messages on LinkedIn from people that want to interview me weekly, and my team has also seen some voluntary turnover. I’m not sure that I believe the article.
zib@kbin.social 1 year ago
In the last 3 months, I've managed to get 2 interviews and the last one ghosted me. It's still pretty bad for some of us.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can attest to this. People want workers with way goo much experience, paying way too little money, and that’s on top of moving to a location that doesn’t make any sense. Some of the jobs I’ve seen here required me to move to a city where the rent is double what the salary would have been
ChexMax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My husband in tech related job has been out of work for almost a year. He applies to things daily and has an interview once every two weeks or so (not counting many follow up interviews). He’s a decent interviewer. The usual response is, we like you for this, we’ll keep you in mind in the future, we just had so many applicants and the other guy is a better fit (or, we suspect, will do this job for less money). My brother in tech has also been out of work for months. Maybe your area is doing well? Our area had massive tech layoffs and is now way over saturated, and one of the main employers of our state (a tech firm) has been on a hiring freeze for months and months. Believe the article.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Get your resume out and see how long it takes you to just get a response asking to schedule a call. I’ve been job hunting opportunistically for 6 mo the and have applies to maybe 50 jobs and I have gotten 3 rejection emails and that is IT.
YoFrodo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was 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
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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?!
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
What about mechanical engineers? Aerodynamic? Microsystems? Electronic? Tech companies always want these types.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I was mainly thinking about mainly software companies because that’s my background but you make a very good point.
Rayspekt@kbin.social 1 year ago
The "tech" label confuses me as a non-american. This means just IT programming/computer stuff, right? Because it's funny to me that stuff like mechanical engineering isn't considered part of "tech".
Might be that the "tech" market is now saturated. Computer science was THE trend topic to doin STEM from my subjective view, so maybe that crashed into the bursting tech bubble that we are experiencing now with all the enshittification and layoffs and stuff.
singron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also most workers at tech companies are not computer programmers. Marketing, sales, support, success, operations, managment, recruiting, HR, accounting, project managment, and product managment usually make up most of the employees. You are probably better at these jobs if you have prior experience in the same industry, but what job isn’t like that?
Johanno@feddit.de 1 year ago
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
Kasumi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Johanno@feddit.de 1 year ago
Companies get desperate. We now also hire non german speakers.
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Literally was in Berlin a month ago, having lunch listening to two business talk about how they cannot find enough cybersecurity talent anywhere, was kinda wild.
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Im not allowed to say the words I know.
Yuki@kutsuya.dev 1 year ago
Oh no :c
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The amount of tech recruiters I have calling and emailing me daily would indicate otherwise.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re desperate for people that will work for less than a living wage for the area.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Idk about that. The jobs I get hit up for are all 225k-300k across various states.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They want the best and want to pay McDonald’s wages for it.
Bigmouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It might mot be hard, but it’s still a nightmare
zeluko@kbin.social 1 year ago
Send a request, got an i terview a week later, another obe a week later and a contract after 2 days.
Good pay, lots of training opportunities, no controlling managers and flexible work tines.tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Which field?
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Personally I found factory work to be a good stop gap, doing the exact same motion over and over again feels exactly like programming
ArtyTester@artemis.camp 1 year ago
I’m no expert, but a 24 page resume?! I think I found your problem bud.
netburnr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anything past 2-3 pages and I won’t read it.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Resumes are written for AI these days, not us.
MooseBoys@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope, because the automated pre-filter won’t even be able to understand it and will reject it outright.
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 year ago
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.