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500-600 applications!? Sounds like you are putting low effort into sending a lot of applications rather than high effort into a few.
Uh, linkedin is that way >>
What are you talking about? 500 applications is clearly way too many for them to be serious. You're basically spamming at that point.
not quite, I did every generally recommended approach, applying on their websites, messaging their recruiters, custom hand typed cover letters. In the past I never even needed to really apply because I was fielding so many calls from recruiters. This year's been a whole lotta nothing
how many hours per day on avg? Just curious
I tend to go in bursts, so I might skip some days since there wouldn't be much new and then crank out a few dozen or something. But the avg would be ~600/7mths