I can only sympathise with your plight Spike, and hope that you'll get a lucky break or something turns up. I have to agree that AI has changed things on the job market and not for the better. And LinkedIn just makes it too easy to apply.
As an example, we advertised for a technical position in our team, and had a lot of applications via LInkedIn which we whittled down to 10, and after initial remote interviews down to 4. After the in-person interview and technical test, it was 0 out of 4! We had one confident candidate whose CV was dripping with SQL-this and SQL-that expertise, but couldn't correctly answer the first (and simple) SQL question (select columns x,y,z from a table and order them by column y). All four candidates were like that. We have decided to go via a recruiter as so much time was wasted.
From your blog, you interview really well, so it must be down to age-ism: I would have thought your last job would have demonstrated to companies that you still had it. Good luck!
This is your call. But my experience has been that hunkering down a persevering through what appears to be the biggest obstacle is exactly what it takes! Fall down 8 times get up 9!
So sorry you’re going through this, Spike. It’s a familiar story for me from a time where there was no LinkedIn, no AI and no Internet. I gave up in the end and had children. Not an option for you, I guess. But I hope your luck changes soon. XX
I can only sympathise with your plight Spike, and hope that you'll get a lucky break or something turns up. I have to agree that AI has changed things on the job market and not for the better. And LinkedIn just makes it too easy to apply.
As an example, we advertised for a technical position in our team, and had a lot of applications via LInkedIn which we whittled down to 10, and after initial remote interviews down to 4. After the in-person interview and technical test, it was 0 out of 4! We had one confident candidate whose CV was dripping with SQL-this and SQL-that expertise, but couldn't correctly answer the first (and simple) SQL question (select columns x,y,z from a table and order them by column y). All four candidates were like that. We have decided to go via a recruiter as so much time was wasted.
From your blog, you interview really well, so it must be down to age-ism: I would have thought your last job would have demonstrated to companies that you still had it. Good luck!
Ouch. I’m sorry to hear that you’re having an ever rougher time of it. I hope that by the time your next post appears, you’ll have turned a corner.
This is your call. But my experience has been that hunkering down a persevering through what appears to be the biggest obstacle is exactly what it takes! Fall down 8 times get up 9!
So sorry you’re going through this, Spike. It’s a familiar story for me from a time where there was no LinkedIn, no AI and no Internet. I gave up in the end and had children. Not an option for you, I guess. But I hope your luck changes soon. XX
If the same option was open to me, I could sell my story to the Daily Mail for millions, no? Sadly at my age ...... :)
1. Did you go to LinkedIn help on Twitter and/or create a support ticket?
2. What’s the definition of insanity?
1 Yes, 2 I know, I know, but I'm not quite doing the same thing over and over, there are many variations.