anyone else discouraged looking for work rn?
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yung Herbie Hancock
Funkadelic Parliament
Tech layoffs will get worse in 2024. I know that for sure. Many recruiters who have alts on Twitter are saying this as well. It's because their teams don't need to be as large anymore.
I’m working something completely beneath me but I’m just doing this until I get some things situated. If I don’t transfer over to a better department, I have a couple of connections one being a corporate gig so I feel you because I might get laid off again because I’m not doing this grunt work too well now lol
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
Where you at Op?
Plenty of jobs in Texas
Plenty of jobs in Texas
Keep your head up. My friends are having a hard time finding stuff. I got a homegirl that been looking for 6 months.
You need to be working LinkedIn in to the bone. DM hiring managers and recruiters.
How many places have you applied to should be shooting to a minimum of 200+ job applications. Keep a sheet to track which companies you have applied to and what stages you are at.
Tech is a vast field, you gotta be specific. IT? Software Engineers? Security Analysts?
Low to mid Software Engineers are getting let go and going to smaller shops.
The IT side is iffy for entry level (as it always has been).
Security is a cluster because no wants to train but they need way more low level analysts looking at all those logs and alerts.
I see recruiters getting laid off left and right just as much as the engineers if not more.
If you have specific skills you will be ok, automation or not.
The key part is to have specific skills that are in demand.
Most places aren't hiring until Q 2024 anyway, because budgets.
Companies have simply adapted to working with less people so they will take their sweet time hiring. A lot of management level positions end up being filled from within.
The best time to have secured a gif was in mid 2021. A lot of jobs were hiring and a lot of people weren’t looking to work.
Because of layoffs in certain sectors, there’s more competition for the same jobs. And of course, a lot of companies don’t want to train anyone. They want to hire unicorns.
The best time to have secured a gif was in mid 2021. A lot of jobs were hiring and a lot of people weren’t looking to work.
Because of layoffs in certain sectors, there’s more competition for the same jobs. And of course, a lot of companies don’t want to train anyone. They want to hire unicorns.
yung Herbie Hancock
Funkadelic Parliament
What specific skills? I got a friend whose a junior in computer engineering and hed like to know. He wants to go into embedded systems, ioT or robotics/AI.
yung Herbie Hancock
Funkadelic Parliament
Yeah I said this earlier. The "tech hiring boom " is over. The teams will get smaller as the years pass since AI will improve hence increasing productivity. At which point you'll only need senior level guys.
Some bigger companies will still hire Jr engineers out of university for branding/ recruiting / marketing.
Yes, but people have been having problems finding jobs for a couple years now. Not just the 4th quarter of this year.
Robotics is Machine Learning so he should subfocus into that if he truly wants to get into automation.
AI/Machine Learning has a lot of overlap and will be desired going forward if he gets into the Robotics industry.
Embedded systems is kinda broad but you end up getting into some lower level programming using C with more specialized tools.
I hear the pay is $$90k+ and it's stable since it's not what people think of when they go for Software Development.
This article explains it much better than me.
He should investigate both, I can see an Embedded Systems Engineer getting into the Robotics space because an android would have thousands of
microprocessors and dozens of circuit boards with a specific function. Like those dogs from Boston Dynamics.
He can't go wrong either way.
This x 100. I left my previous job back in late June (because I heard that the management team was looking at trying to make some cuts to our organization due to not hitting their numbers in 2022). I was proactive in leaving, and then scouring LinkedIn like crazy during my downtime. I reached out to lots of hiring managers and recruiters to see if there were any opportunities and openings coming up.
Around late July, I talked to a recruiter on LinkedIn about a job at a lobbyist firm, and after 4 rounds of interviews, I finally got the job offer in mid-late August. I was extremely persistent in following up with the recruiter and sending as many thank you emails to the interviewers as I could. Luckily I had enough money saved up, so that I could chill for 6-9 months if things got rough, but I was able to find a job in 2 months.
Im a big proponent of using LinkedIn. It’s extremely useful, and I pay the $29.99 per month to get messages from recruiters and to reach out to recruiters. I’ve gotten my last 3 jobs in the last 7 years as a result of LinkedIn. Make sure you get your profile and resume up to date, and make as many connections as you can with co-workers from your jobs, recruiters and C-Level people. The more connections you have, the better chance you’ll have to find a potential job.
upping this, mostly in hopes that something will come through soon 
accepted a bs pt gig to keep money flowing but still be able to interview…seeing the media’s reporting on the economy and jobs makes me feel like I’m in an alternate universe fr
accepted a bs pt gig to keep money flowing but still be able to interview…seeing the media’s reporting on the economy and jobs makes me feel like I’m in an alternate universe fr
