MichaelA gave me the TL;DR of this advice in a 1 on 1 session at EA Global Reconnect last year and it has been quite valuable. I haven’t applied to quite so many roles as recommended (mostly due to the demands of my PhD), however, I applied for more than I otherwise would have and got a couple of interviews that I was surprised by and got some valuable information out of the process.
Some additional points:
Getting to the interview stage and asking something along the lines of “was there an element of my experience/skillset that was particularly important in me progressing in the hiring process” can give you surprising and/or valuable information about the value of your experience/skills in the context of that role/area of work.
I’ve found keeping a single document with all of my application responses to be an efficient way to reuse or repurpose past responses and cut down the application time and effort. It also helps me short-circuit my propensity to aim for perfection in a response (and get stuck iterating on it for diminishing returns) because I can look at a past response and say ‘well it was good enough for that application so it will do here’ (even more so if I progressed in the hiring process for that application). This has saved me a lot of time.
MichaelA gave me the TL;DR of this advice in a 1 on 1 session at EA Global Reconnect last year and it has been quite valuable. I haven’t applied to quite so many roles as recommended (mostly due to the demands of my PhD), however, I applied for more than I otherwise would have and got a couple of interviews that I was surprised by and got some valuable information out of the process.
Some additional points:
Getting to the interview stage and asking something along the lines of “was there an element of my experience/skillset that was particularly important in me progressing in the hiring process” can give you surprising and/or valuable information about the value of your experience/skills in the context of that role/area of work.
I’ve found keeping a single document with all of my application responses to be an efficient way to reuse or repurpose past responses and cut down the application time and effort. It also helps me short-circuit my propensity to aim for perfection in a response (and get stuck iterating on it for diminishing returns) because I can look at a past response and say ‘well it was good enough for that application so it will do here’ (even more so if I progressed in the hiring process for that application). This has saved me a lot of time.