• BanMe@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    It took me a couple hundred when I got laid off at Christmas last year. Was May before I got hired on again. I did hire an AI spamming service towards the end and I did start getting interviews off it, but ultimately found something on indeed. I still leave the spamming service running because, fuck HR and fuck their stupid systems, break them and make them figure out something else.

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      3 hours ago

      You need to not live in that area, or work that career.

      I lost my job about a year before you did. Applied to maybeeee 10 places? I think fewer. Didn’t even finish some of the take-home assignments because, honestly, my partner at the time was just riding me so hard I wanted to die and nothing else. Almost got one job - but the company ended up restructuring.

      Ended up getting an unsolicited message from a recruiter 3 months into unemployment, took that job. Then one of the recruiters whose take-home I didn’t complete emailed me to say hey we probably want you anyway, do you wanna discuss? I said sorry, not this time - I got an enticing job offer already. “Ok, congratulations! Feel free to let me know if it doesn’t work out though”