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I Applied to 200 Jobs and Got 0 Interviews. Then I Changed ONE Thing.
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I Applied to 200 Jobs and Got 0 Interviews. Then I Changed ONE Thing.

via Dev.toДаниил Корнилов1mo ago

I'm going to tell you something embarrassing. Last year, I spent two straight months applying to every junior developer job I could find. LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, HH, random company career pages, sketchy job boards I found through Google on page 3. I didn't care. If the posting said "developer" and didn't require 10 years of experience, I hit apply. 200+ applications. I was keeping count in a spreadsheet because I thought tracking the numbers would make me feel productive. Spoiler: it just made me feel worse. 200 applications. Zero interviews. Not even a rejection email from most of them. Just... silence. I remember sitting in my room at 2 AM, eyes bloodshot, copy-pasting my resume into yet another application form, thinking "this is fine, it's a numbers game, eventually someone will say yes." I was wrong. So, so wrong. What I was doing wrong Let me walk you through my brilliant strategy. Maybe you'll recognize yourself in this, and if you do, please stop. I'm begging you. My resum

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