> You sent 450 applications for one hiring. Very roughly speaking this means you expect the employer to carefully consider 450 applications for their one job opening
No misunderstanding. Since lots of people operate like you did - more or less - that's the more or less result.
> Almost every job on linkedin has had over 100 applicants after it's been up for a few hours.
Well yeah. If your job search is going to be answering postings on anything - if you START with the linkedin posting as a given - then you will be competing with hundreds of garbage applications. Yes of course. Which means the employer won't read these all carefully (not possible). And the interview process for these will be aimed at filtering the garbage. And you won't like it. Etc etc.
And no argument that sometimes it works. Of course. It's a common way to go about a job search and on average people do get hired in the end, after a lot of nonsense. Everyone also complains a lot about a broken and inefficient hiring process. The inefficient hiring process is co-evolved with this approach.
People also mention approaching the right people and being fast-tracked through the hiring process. That is also a thing.
No misunderstanding. Since lots of people operate like you did - more or less - that's the more or less result.
> Almost every job on linkedin has had over 100 applicants after it's been up for a few hours.
Well yeah. If your job search is going to be answering postings on anything - if you START with the linkedin posting as a given - then you will be competing with hundreds of garbage applications. Yes of course. Which means the employer won't read these all carefully (not possible). And the interview process for these will be aimed at filtering the garbage. And you won't like it. Etc etc.
And no argument that sometimes it works. Of course. It's a common way to go about a job search and on average people do get hired in the end, after a lot of nonsense. Everyone also complains a lot about a broken and inefficient hiring process. The inefficient hiring process is co-evolved with this approach.
People also mention approaching the right people and being fast-tracked through the hiring process. That is also a thing.