Arjun Mehta ·
When response rates fall, the instinct is to apply to more roles. It usually makes things worse
More applications means less time per application, which means more generic ones, which is precisely what gets filtered. The counterintuitive move in a bad market is to cut your weekly number and spend the recovered hours on referrals and on the roles you genuinely match.
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