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I've had several places reject me without even a phone screen. My last job was the same role, the same tech stack, and I achieved the things they wrote about in the blurb. I just get back "we're looking for someone more aligned with our needs".
What needs?? I check every box you put on the post!
My friend thinks the jobs don't exist, and they're just posted so the company looks good. Or they're some other fraud.
I think that happens, but also there's incompetence in the funnel. Recruiters can't read, ai sucks, blah blah blah.
Often companies post jobs "to be fair", but have already decided on an internal hire. The word is 80% of hirings never appear on job boards.
I have over a decade of experience as well. Nobody in my small personal "network" knows anyone that's hiring right now (I hate the fakeness of networking for networking sake, and am not very social, so I don't have much of a network). I've applied to hundreds of job postings over 6 months, interviewed with maybe 6 companies, and rejected usually just because they were also interviewing 10-20 people for the same role, and another person had slightly more experience with a specific part of their stack, or they just liked another person more for whatever reason. I believe all remote job postings get 1000s of applicants, and every one local to me get 100s.
It all kind of reminds me of when I tried using online dating apps, lol.
They definitely did that at college job fairs. They wanted to keep their spot, but weren't hiring that year.