#stitch with @Joel Lalgee | Recruiter Legend #corporatetiktok #careertips #careeradvice #careertiktok

The great resignation is over. We're now in one of the hardest employee markets. So I'll just tell you from my experience as a hiring manager. I'm ahead of products so I hire product managers. A year ago I'd open a PM role and within about 24 hours it would get 80 to 90 applicants. Now when I open a role within 24 hours it gets about 400 applicants. In the past 12 months our product org has hired maybe 20 people that includes engineers designers and PMs and I think only one or two of them was a cold application. Meaning everybody else was referred in. If I was on the job market right now I would not waste any time applying to a role where I didn't have someone who could refer me in. I would spend 80 to 90% of my time researching the openings that are at the companies where my friends and my connections work. Talking with them about those roles, strategizing about how to craft my resume and application within the other 10% of time feeling out applications.