r/RemoteJobseekers • u/sssuperstark • 13d ago
I finally got an offer🎉🎉 If you're in the trenches right now, this one's for you.
Seven months ago the startup I'd been at for 3 years shut down. Not just my role, the whole company. Everyone laid off in one meeting.
I figured I'd land something in a couple of months. I was wrong.
The numbers, because I tracked everything:
- 587 applications, each with a tailored resume
- 3 companies where I made it to interviews
- 5 rounds with them in total
- 0 offers
Getting rejected after 5 rounds is a special kind of pain. You've done the take-home, you've met the team, you've already pictured yourself there. And then you get "we've decided to move forward with another candidate."
What made it worse: I'm on a freelance visa. No job means no visa, which means leaving the country. So on top of the usual job search misery, I had a countdown clock on my whole life here. I was maybe a month away from booking a one-way flight home.
By month 6 I'd stopped believing it would happen. I was still applying, but on autopilot.
Then two days ago, an offer. One email and it was over.
I'm not here to sell you a system. I don't have one. I got lucky at the end. I just want to say this to whoever needs it:
Rejections are not a verdict on you. This market is brutal, and the number of no's you've collected says almost nothing about your worth. A month ago I would have told you I was unemployable.
If you're at 200, 400, 600 applications and feeling insane, you're not. You're doing the thing. Keep doing the thing.
I hope every one of you gets this exact email soon.
edit: Bunch of people asked, so: I only really use it as a job tracker, which is the free part. The rest (resume stuff, cover letters, auto-tailoring from a posting link) is paid and I've never touched it. Probably not the best tracker out there tbh, I just got used to it and stuck with it.
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u/ennkayy2005 12d ago
Please what dashboard / tool is this? I using some free sankey plug in. And it keeps refreshing my data and wiping everything out.
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u/Gloomy_Willingness_4 13d ago
Congratulations! also love the visual. Curious, Can you share what part of the process you'd really wished there was a good solution for? (and the solution if you did end up using something). what would make you ok with paying like $10-20/mo? is there any problem here worthy of solving for that price tag for folks looking for a job? Congrats again!
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u/riskyprofessional 11d ago
congratulations!!! currently applying to other jobs out of fear of getting laid-off. what website did you use to acquire your job? Indeed?
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u/Several-Librarian-63 11d ago
Big Congrats OP!! Do you mind sharing which country you are based in?
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u/BaseballVisible3858 10d ago
Congrats man. Yes I’m in trenches and desperate. But gave up. Going with the flow. Hope to get a miracle.
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u/okayokaykanye 10d ago
This is inspiring, felt the same I had 311 jobs apps outta college till I got my first job. One thing I will say is that this approach is not the best. Reach out for informational interviews w people who work at the companies you want to work at and ask them for a referral they say 90% of the time. That’s how I’ve gotten my last 2 jobs. It went from 311 apps to 30 apps to like less than 10 apps for my current role and now I work at a FANNG
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u/ChrisPaulsenWrites 10d ago
Congratulations! Good news is too rare these days, so thanks for sharing yours. I try to stay encouraged remembering news like this.
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u/Far-Reputation-840 9d ago
Congratulations and thank you for sharing, the timing of your post is refreshing and needed. All the very best to you!
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u/creativfuturz 8d ago
Congratulations! I hope everything works well for you in the new role! All the best!
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u/_techsavvy 13d ago
Hey btw, I'm a fresher and seeking for remote Full Stack Engineer roles too my tech stack is: MERN + Typescript + Next.js + Postgresql, can you suggest how and where to apply ??
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u/rnoboa 13d ago
first, congratulations.
second, what is this dashboard/tracker? because it’s clean & accessible as heck.