Ask HN: Job market for Staff/Director tech roles barren?
4 treyfitty 3 8/29/2025, 1:21:59 AM
I’ve been through internship recruiting in 2007,2008, changed jobs just before Covid, and periodically submitted my resume from time to time. I have a job, and I’m not desperate, but the past 6 months have been 0% conversion to initial screen. Literal 0. Maybe 10 resume submissions per month, a few tweaks to my resume each month… but nothing. Is it just me?
My guess would be that unless your skills are in a hot area, like AI/ML etc, opportunities are scarce and there are lots of folks out of jobs searching.
So it's probably not you, it's the economy.