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I'm trying to switch jobs right now and (stupidly) thought it would be pretty easy. My resume is well built and has some impressive names on it, so my strategy has been to target specific competitors in my industry as well as taking shots at anything in various related fields.
Damn it's hard! Out of 80 applications in 4 weeks, only one company has offered me an interview. An agency contacted me, talked to me in person for 5 minutes, and then never got back to me. So that's roughly 2.5%. Forgot how crazy it is out there!
The reason I'm asking specifically for percentages is that they give an idea of how aggressive you have to be, how many jobs you need to be applying to and directly tell what kind of time you need to be putting in to find jobs every day. In my previous jobsearches, I was unemployed and had lots of time, so would apply to hundreds of jobs every week, in my entire life, it would undoubtedly be thousands. My interview rate was something like 0.5-1%. What about you; how would you describe your experience as a percentage?
Keep in mind that I have not looked for a job in 7 years, so my info may be outdated.
As an experienced professional, my phone interview rate for targeted industry applications was about 90%. My in person, paid travel interview rate was about 60%. My offer rate was about 10%.
In a closely related, but not exact field, my success rate dropped in half.
In a larger field, with similar titles, but a different focus, my phone interview rate was less than 1%, everything else was 0.
I am not a super job hunter and the last job search was about 12 years ago so this may not be current. I didn't keep actual statistics, but I'd say my interview rate was about 10%, give or take, and my job offer rate about 4%.
0% success rate since I'm still unemployed, but not counted by the gov as unemployed.
I have a 13.8% hit rate. Since 2018, I've applied to 29 companies. One company interviewed me twice without an initial phone screen. Two other interviews were screens. One interview invite I did not respond to.
In one of the two screens, I began to realize through talking with him I didn't even want to do the work for that company and the interviewer was just as inexperienced at interviewing as I am in being interviewed. They also hid what programming language they used from the job ad.
The second phone screen was said to be an interview. I was tired, had 5 hours of sleep and didn't do a very good job. I can't count myself out for another month as that is when they will be making a hiring decision.
The longer you go unemployed the less responses you get. When applying out of your area there is even less responses. It is a double whammy.
I had job searches in 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2017. In 1993, the job came looking for me. So I was one for zero. In 1997, I put out one application and it resulted in an offer I took. Same deal in 2001. In 2017, things were a lot different. Of course, to be fair, I was now an "older worker". The difference was incredible. 103 resumes, 3 interviews, only 1 offer.
This conversation, and the personal experiences told here, are why I marvel when people say, in various circumstances, "just find another job"...... as if most jobs that pay well -- and that a person would take, to leave another job, are just out there to be easily grasped.
This conversation, and the personal experiences told here, are why I marvel when people say, in various circumstances, "just find another job"...... as if most jobs that pay well -- and that a person would take, to leave another job, are just out there to be easily grasped.
People generally want to be recognized as having worthwhile insights. When that tendency runs up against truly difficult circumstances, there's bound to be a conflict. That self-focus - making the other person's problem all about how to make one's self feel important - it drives people to minimize the actual problem; it drives people to ignore the hard parts of the problem and just solve the easy parts and then blame the person looking for help for not being able to solve the hard part themselves.
I have a contact rate of about 10% with an interview rate of about 5% over many years and many applications. Once I get interviewed I have a 90% success rate for job offers.
In my field probably about 1%. I'm not sure I'd consider a $15 an hour offer as an experienced MSc level Chemist successful. I haven't interviewed since getting my current position 7 years ago as I would rather gargle concentrated acid than go through company's HR trash driven hiring process again.
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