Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
It&#x27;s not a good job market, but it doesn&#x27;t seem normal to spend six months applying and only get _one_ interview.<p>It might be worth asking friends or former colleagues, ideally people who actually are involved in recruiting (hiring managers etc) to take a look at your resume and LinkedIn profile and see if there&#x27;s anything glaringly wrong with them.<p>Is your resume in a weird format, or is it structurally weird&#x2F;overdesigned? For instance, a recent trend in resumes was to show (programming) languages known in a pie chart (do not do this; it is nonsensical). In many companies, the text from your resume is going to end up in a standard format anyway; they&#x27;ll have tools for this and if their tool can&#x27;t extract your text they may not bother. Unless you&#x27;re a graphic designer or something, you probably want a boringly-designed resume.<p>Are you applying jobs for which you are dramatically underqualified? One thing to keep in mind is that some small companies (if you&#x27;re coming from one) have _wild_ title inflation; a small startup might call someone with 5 and a half years experience their director of frontend engineering, say, whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer.<p>Does anything particularly unfortunate come up if people Google your name? For instance, a real-life version of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine&#x27;s dating a guy who has the same name as a notorious local serial killer.