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cheezburger.com · Aug 24

Employee shows proof of why you should stop applying for jobs online: ‘Luck? Maybe idk but it worked for me. I think this approach is worth a try’

Everything offline is cool right nowThis is so true. I mean, I got my job by applying online, but that's beside the point. Most of the jobs I got in my entire life were found outside the internet. And it's not because the internet didn't exist (I'm not that old, thanks). It's because the selection process becomes much easier when the people who are going to hire you see how you present yourself and interact beforehand.Right now, companies have AIs reading through thousands of AI-made resumes, and it's much harder to be selected, even if you are the most qualified. This is only random Reddit advice, you can take it or leave it, but I think there is some truth to it. Of course, It doesn't work for every field. In some companies you can't even get to the front desk without being stopped by security, so you'd have to slide your resume under the door and hope for the best, and that makes absolutely no sense. But for a lot of industries, applying in person still works just fine. To the 'in-person job applying' theory, I'd add that asking your friends and people you know about open positions you might be interested in has a much higher success rate at getting an interview than applying o…

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