Stats on my job hunt:

Stats on my job hunt:
-- Applied to nearly 200 jobs, mostly through Linkedn's easy apply system. This made it a matter of a minute or two per.
-- Talked to dozens of recruiters.
-- I never heard back from any of the proprietary career systems. Craigslist, yes. But, taleo talent network bullshit? Nope.
-- Turned down several possibilities to distance or client. I don't wanna work for ICE, and I don't wanna have a terrible commute.
-- I had to make a spreadsheet to keep track of all the recruiters and possibilities.
-- I had maybe a half dozen second round phone screens
-- Scheduled four in persons, had two. One I cancelled, and one I need to cancel this weekend.
-- Interviewed for the wrong job once
-- First in-person interview resulted in an offer.
-- Offer letter obtained within 4 weeks of starting search
-- Negotiated the offer up 3%. This is lower than I am currently making, but more than sufficient for my needs.

Some thoughts on this madness:
-- Yes, I am a very privileged person. That's not this topic.
-- The labor market is tight in the area. We've got like a 2% unemployment rate, and this is what that looks like.
-- The bullshit proprietary systems are, in fact, bullshit.
-- Ladders is bullshit. LinkedIn is quite good. My job offer came from glassdoor, but the version of my resume they sent was unreadable.
-- "scrum master" is a valuable role, and a great thing to have on a resume. Scrum master plus analytic skills is crazy unicorn shit.
-- If you are thinking about looking for a job: now is the time.
-- The response rate is still pretty low: call it 10% merited a human response. Of those as much as 40% were leading to an interview. Of the interviews I had, 50% lead to an offer.
-- This suggests, ballpark, 10% * 40% * 50%, which is 2%. Granted, that list is a crazy low N, but this suggests sending out at least 50 applications.

I'm happy to talk about this. It's been crazy.