Nothing is working

Have a direct relationship with the direct report for a job i want. I reached out and am networking with them / others, but still feel it's going nowhere and am getting rejected from the ATS. What more can I do? Nothing is working 

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If you’re getting rejected from ATS despite being extremely qualified, maybe try updating your resume with different keywords to see if you can start getting picked up more often?

 
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This will sound like unc shit but truthfully there were jobs over the years that I drooled over and obsessed over and wanted to land so badly. Looking back, I’m glad that I didn’t, in most cases.


I once dreamed of working at a certain large real estate advisor in the northeast with a diversified series of funds in the US and a significant European presence. I never ended up there. Now they appear to be losing tons of senior people and rumors are that it’s not a good place to be.


Similarly, I lost out on a role at an emerging firm with an industrial GP fund. Seemed like the coolest place on earth. A friend of mine is there now, and it’s fine, but I realize now that it wouldn’t have been a good fit for me.


Now I’m certainly not trying to minimize your pain. I just mean that we sometimes overweight the glory of a specific role at a specific firm. 

 

When the job market is this fried, nepotism and who you know really comes in to play.

You think you have a better reference or app but I promise there is someone with the same app and a more cracked dad who can hooked them up.

There are no roles for entry level and assoc and VP levels are crowded af from COVID hiring. It is genuinely just horrific out there.

 

You constantly espouse inflammatory bullshit all over this site, yet you’re so detached from / uninformed about recruiting processes that you actually don’t know what an ATS is?

 

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