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Hi,

I am (M23) from Europe. Currently at the MSRE at NYU, graduating soon. Have about 1.5 years experience in big firms for RE . 3.9 GPA. Good undergrad busines school. Good extracurricular.
Applied to over 100+ jobs. Not a single call back . Not even from random firms in the middle of Ohio. Been networking and cold calling a bunch of people . Still not a single answer or even smallest interview.

Am I the only one struggling that bad ?do you have any tips / advice ?
Do my profile sucks or is it juste the market being too bad rn ?
Should I defer my graduation to land in the job market at a better time ?

 

Hey also at NYU, graduating soon. You have to reach out to people at the firm you apply to otherwise you don't even get a look.

Example, for my current internship only 5 people were interviewed. I applied through the job portal and when I got to my company saw my resume wasn't even downloaded from there in their files. The only reason I interviewed is because I emailed someone directly, asked to get on a call and sent my resume to them.

If you need a visa this may also make it tough since a lot of firms don't want to take on that extra cost.

 

Yea that’s true. I try doing that whenever I can find the hiring manager email, but that doesn’t happen too often.

The most crazy part is back in undergrad I would get the interview from the big guys like Blackstone (London branch for summer analyst AM) . And now can’t even hear back from a random family office in Ohio.

 
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