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Eventually, I’m hoping, one of those interesting people is going to ask for my resume so they can put it on top of a pile somewhere.While I’m generally pretty good at reading the M&A market in the HR Technology space, I admit that the announcement that venerable tech titan Microsoft was acquiring LinkedIn took me, like many in the industry, by complete surprise. I’m now scaling back my nonprofit role to three days a week and taking some time to meet interesting people in person and see what I can learn from there. But in the meantime, I’ve given up on applying for jobs the old-fashioned way–both manually and robotically. I’ve been transparent with almost all of the interviewers about my process, and while I worried it might be a real turnoff, they’ve all responded positively so far I’ve even landed a few consulting gigs from it. In virtually every case, though, the companies were on the smaller side (less than 50 staff) and not a single one had an ATS in place to filter resumes. Forty-three companies ultimately reached out for follow-up interviews, and I actually talked to about 20 of them. But the project wasn’t entirely without success. And maybe, somewhere along the way, I became more interested in what the data says than in whether or not a robot could actually find me a job. Maybe I didn’t need an elaborate bot-driven scheme to find that out.

The number of jobs you apply to has no correlation to whether you’ll be considered, and you won’t be considered for jobs you don’t get the chance to apply to.

Companies are trying to fill a position with minimal risk, not discover someone who breaks the mold.

And if you don’t know someone, don’t bother.

It’s not how you apply, it’s who you know.

As my faith in the front-facing application process eroded into near oblivion, I learned three lessons by robotically applying to thousands of jobs: So where has this left me, aside from somewhat disheartened? Well, for one thing, it leaves me a little bit wiser. The law of large numbers suggests that something should get through the ATS and stand out, even next to candidates whose buddies bumped their resumes up to the top of the pile. So that was two strikes against the time-honored tradition of submitting a resume and crossing your fingers. They happen when someone influential meets a really interesting person and says, ‘Let’s create a position for you.'” Beyond that, though, “recruiters are usually not very helpful they are looking for candidates in the center of the bullseye.” From his vantage point, recruiters don’t have time to search for something outside the norm.Īmy Segelin, president of the executive communications recruiting firm Chaloner, put it a different way: “Out-of-the-box hires rarely happen through LinkedIn applications. He explained that it’s easy to find candidates that fit cleanly within a mold. I asked Scott Uhrig at Agile.Careers, a coaching program for high-tech executives, how a nontraditional candidate would fare in a fiercely competitive job market.

“Out-of-the-box hires rarely happen through LinkedIn applications. I live in New York City and had no plans to relocate, so I quickly shut it down until I could release a new version. The first time I fired it up I accidentally applied to about 1,300 jobs in the Midwest during the time it took me to get a cup of coffee across the street. It wasn’t a particularly elegant mechanism, but it was ruthlessly efficient.

I also tracked email responses (including from autoresponders). I tracked how many times my cover letter, resume, or LinkedIn profile was viewed. Soon, I was imagining myself telling the story of how I’d turned my job search into a super-precise job firehose. My robot aggregated hiring managers’ contact information, then submitted customized emails with my resume and a personalized cover letter. So I cobbled together a Rube Goldbergian contraption of crawlers, spreadsheets, and scripts to automate my job-application process, modestly referring to it as my “robot.” My robot aggregated hiring managers’ contact information, then submitted customized emails with my resume and a personalized cover letter. I’ve been known to find ways to automate things (social media, data processing, web content, etc.) out of boredom or creativity or both.

I’m no engineer but I play with technology a lot.