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Pro tip: I tracked my applications in a notebook for 6 months and one line finally made me stop guessing
I started writing down every single job I applied to in a cheap spiral notebook back in January. Date, company, how I found it, and a little note about what I changed in my resume. For 6 months nothing felt like it was working, like 40 something applications and only a handful of callbacks. Then I counted the rows and saw something I missed. Almost every callback came from postings I found within 3 days of them going up, and almost every rejection came from stuff that had been posted 2 weeks or more. I got so used to scrolling job boards that I was applying to old listings nobody was even checking anymore. So I flipped my whole routine, stopped scrolling and started checking a handful of company pages I actually like every morning before work. Two interviews in the following month, which was more than the whole 6 months before. The notebook cost me like $2 and honestly did more than any resume tip I read online. Has anyone else noticed the timing thing matters more than they thought, or is it just me?
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riley_schmidt9d ago
Wasted about 3 years of my life doing the exact same thing you were doing, just without the notebook to figure out why nothing worked. I'd apply to stuff that had been sitting on Indeed for a month and then sit there wondering why my inbox was a ghost town, like the job fairy was gonna reward me for effort alone. Your notebook idea is so dumb simple that it hurts, because you basically paid $2 to find the answer and I paid nothing to stay clueless and mad. The 3 day thing tracks too, every time I've gotten a real reply it was from something fresh that I saw the day it dropped. Guess I need to hit up a dollar store this week.
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