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Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you?

47 points Jabbs | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

I’ve been laid off since June and have not been getting responses from most of my applications other than denials. I have 10+ years mostly Ruby/React/JS. New just working on a side project (job listing scraper) but curious what is working well for you? Specific apps or strategies that lead to your hiring?
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giantg2 ◴[15 Nov 24 20:16 UTC] No.42150456[source]▶
You're not going to like this. My plan for when I get laid off or fired is to get a help desk job, or even at job at Walmart. If you can't get responses for what you want, you might need to do stuff you don't want to. That's most people's reality anyways
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samuelson ◴[15 Nov 24 20:30 UTC] No.42150614[source]▶
Depending on your current salary, you might make more by collecting unemployment which has the benefit that you can make finding a job your full time job.
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craftkiller ◴[15 Nov 24 20:50 UTC] No.42150860[source]▶
The max unemployment benefit in my state (NY) is $504/week for a maximum of 26 weeks. This adds up to $13k over half a year, or the equivalent of a full-time 40-hour per week job at $12.60/hour. So if you can collect the max benefits, you might beat a walmart job (though minimum wage where I live is higher at $15/hour) but I'd certainly hope that a help desk job pays more than that.
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1. gcheong ◴[15 Nov 24 21:14 UTC] No.42151157[source]▶
I would expect most software dev jobs to hit the maximum payout but assuming that Walmart/helpdesk job will always be there and you can cover health insurance then it seems to me it would be better to take the unemployment first and get paid to send off a few resumes and have the time to do other things instead and then get the help desk job if you need to.