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Talon5967 posted...

Wishful thinking. That only applies when the economy is growing extremely rapidly, and companies can't find enough people to fill all the new positions. This usually occurs when the economy is heading into a bubble. Which is always followed by a crash and massive layoffs a few years later.

Actually, I just read that in my state, there is a shortage of qualified people to fill STEM positions. I know that they obviously want skilled people, but I wonder sometimes if they're too demanding. I specifically look for jobs in software engineering and adjacent fields, and some of the stuff in the job descriptions is insane. There are so many programming languages, database technologies, networking technologies, etc. and I read job descriptions all the time that list 10-20 different things from these groups and I wonder who the hell they expect to get that knows all of that. I know that job descriptions are often written poorly and you should apply if you at least meet a large percentage of it, but I'm usually not even remotely qualified based on the descriptions. And the worst is when it's labeled entry level, junior, 1, etc. but still has this high entry.

What_The_Chris posted...

in my experience, don't bother. They will call you if they accepted you.

That's been my experience too, but when I've gotten accepted for a job I found out in a couple days or even at the interview. When it's been four weeks I think it's okay to follow up.