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I finally hit 100 job applications in 3 weeks and the number that actually shocked me was 2
So back in January I got laid off from my warehouse job in Toledo when they closed our whole shift. I started applying everywhere, like 6 to 8 apps a night after my kid went to bed. After 3 weeks I counted up my spreadsheet and I had hit 100 applications exactly. Here's the part that got me though, out of those 100 I only got 2 real callbacks, and one of them was for a place that pays $2 less an hour than my old job. I sat at my kitchen table at like 11pm just staring at those numbers and it hit me that this whole job search thing is a numbers game but nobody tells you how bad the odds feel. I've got about 5 months of savings left so I'm okay for now but I keep wondering if I should switch to a totally different field or just keep grinding out apps. Has anyone else tracked their own numbers like this and did changing your approach actually move the needle?
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wood.faith5d ago
My tracking spreadsheet deserves a gold star for effort while my callback rate deserves a moment of silence. Honestly the numbers game thing is real but 100 apps for 2 calls means something in your resume or your targets is getting filtered out before a human ever sees it. Changing fields might help, but fixing how you apply to the ones you already qualify for could move the needle faster.
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