“Well, Joe, I did. I requested all the jobs.”
This is exactly as “Sam” opened our conversation. He made me laugh out loud, despite myself.
Let me configure this very fast.
Sam is a former product vice president who appeared in project management ranks. He has been out of work since he was fired at the end of last year, so he has been complete about five months.
Sam is different. She is not like you and me. She is a kind of machine. It has never been a developer, but knows all the connective fabric between the brain of a developer and a successful production application, including infrastructure, safety, agile and scrum, quality control, and each taste of each process that provides a good code to customers they pay.
Sam will tell you that she “is not an idea of the girl.” She runs. With extreme prejudice.
I tell you all this to tell you that when Sam loses his job or wants another job, he immediately takes each stop, in an optimized and efficient way, never so that a hot second one takes off the goal of “putting Sam’s butt in a new seat.”
Yes. She went to the third person there.
Last week, to his surprise, Sam realized that in his six months of relentless execution, he had requested all the works for which he was remotely qualified. Each. There was nothing to do. Without description of the work he had not combed, no company that he had not investigated and contacted, without speaking in networks did not speak.
Then she called me and invited me to have coffee.
Apart from the hyperbole, Sam has requested hundreds of positions, “maybe more than 500,” she says. She has gone through dozens of screens and “definitely more than 50 interview loops.”
If there is a war for the current work at this time, this is what Sam has learned from his period in the front.
“The thing of the friendly curriculum with ATS is shit”
His words. But I tend to agree.
Sam went up to Resume He immediately trains, because the company that left her had leaned in the projection of Ai Résumé for about a year, and had a friend helping with technology in the Human Resources department.
“He spent a month before I realized that I was just throwing darts,” he said. “Then I thought about all the conversations I had with [my HR tech friend] And I realized that there is not a single friendly format with ATS, and that we are probably doing the projection differently. “
The answers I was receiving were from companies for which I really did not want to work anyway, usually for low -payment and low culture work. In addition, the next step after contact was almost always a “Vibra” Interviews Series. Most of the time, they resulted in fun conversations with young human resources representatives followed by a brief rejection note a week later.
“I felt I was wasting my time and needed to get out of that loop,” he said. “So I took a risk and remit my curriculum to talk directly to the person I would like to hire.”
That, he said, resulted in a better initial contact.
There is nothing in the middle
Sam immediately decided to request everything he could. He has almost 20 years of experience, so he requested everything from medium -level work that required five years of experience to the executive work that would serve as his next logical career movement.
“Fifteen years is the maximum they will put in the JD,” he laughed. “What tells you that?”
Every time, he modified his curriculum and his application to “not scare anyone. I did not lie. It was selective about what I said.”
What he noticed is that there were many work “just above the entrance level”, in other words, people who were already broken but still cheap. And there was a good number of director positions and above, less practical things.
“They don’t say you will have to be there for selling for those executive works, but they imply it quite a lot,” he said.
I suppose this means that there is much less emphasis on management. And in my own research, I have also found that this is the case. You have work work, and you have sales, and Everything else is driven by AI.
And by the way. . .
The “IA works” are as dumb as you think they are
“At the beginning,” Sam admits, “I wasn’t requesting AI jobs because I don’t have the technological experience there, but after reading some of the requirements, I said [WTF]I can use chatgpt, and I requested a couple and get answers. “
It turns out that nobody really knows what a “work of AI” is, beyond the learning of mathematics and machines at the doctoral level that boost AI platforms. According to Sam, almost everything that is not just hiring managers who want to make sure that “you can use chatgpt for beautiful things, you know, documentation and presentations.”
I am surprised not to have assumed that.
Salaries are going down
This stinks.
She said: “I swear, I had nothing or anything in it, but six months ago, salaries at my level were mostly $ 250,000 to $ 300,000, and now they are definitely in the range, more or less than $ 180,000 to $ 220,000.”
It makes sense. A combination of continuous economic uncertainty on one side of the hiring table and a growing despair on the other side. Something had to give.
You need to be former bigco
I have played this in previous publicationsAnd Sam confirms what they have already told me.
“It comes. A lot,” he said.
Many years ago, Sam spent some time in a multi -million dollar renowned technology company. Now he was frustrating when the interviewers would inevitably ask him first about that position.
“I made a period,” he said. “I did not change the world or anything. I am really proud of what I did in my last job, but they were below $ 50 million and fell, then …”
Money Men (and Women) are pulling the strings
There is much more supervision about the organ of Orgires and the hiring in general from investors and joints that traditionally do not play so much in the company’s makeup below the C-Suite.
This is something that asked Sam, and his eyes illuminated.
“Yeah!” She said. “I’ve had … three loops that were great, and just before the offer I settled with a rando or a type of private capital and then Whatmo. Is it one thing?”
Yes. She said “Whatmo”. And yes, that’s a thing. I know this because I have been the Rando. Risk capitalists and “private capital boys”.
There is no trust
Sam and I had a long and winding conversation, and I tried to put this in a format with a single cohesive thread. If I had to choose, that thread would be “without trust.”
From the lack of confidence in the projection of the curriculum to the lack of confidence in how to put people to work in a lack of confidence in what type of talent is needed for even a lack of confidence in Executives making solid tax hiring decisions.
No one knows what is really happening or how to improve it.
And so, according to Sam, this discomfort has extended to every corner of the labor market. Outside a few scholarships or local connections, there is no good way to move from point to point B, and point B is putting a butt in a seat.
“And then, one morning, last week, I went to my laptop and there was nothing to do,” he said. “It took some time to solve it, but Each Working BoardAll my Network monitoringall. It was updated. He made me a little scared. “
A few days later, Sam sent me a text message to tell me that new jobs were arriving and that Chatter had retired on his network. In my opinion, this is a wave and necessary, since companies continue to discover what is not working, and then try to discover what it will do.
Or, at least, that is what my optimistic side says.
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“Bor Joe Procopio.”
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