My Professional Overview
(Est. Reading Time: 4 min) I've been out of a job for over a year, and I have been applying to over 1000 jobs during that time. I lost count, seriously, but I noticed a trend. When I see less job postings, I get more job ghosting when I apply. Alternatively, when I see more job postings, I get more rejections. During this time, I had over 16 different companies I've interviewed with, and almost all have been setup by recruiters. The thing is, recruiters are not doing well in this job market, either, and there are a lot of scammers out there messing everything up. So, to even the score a bit, I wanted to inject more humanity into my hunt. Job applications today are a form with 5 to 10 blanks, half of it being demographics questions at the end that I've answered so many times, that I can almost recite them word-for-word from memory. How do you add more humanity to that? Add a "Are you a robot?" captcha to them? No, I needed a "cover letter" to add to m...