The job market really is cooked, especially siguro for me na mas extensive yung non-developer experience (specifically tech support and admin tasks). Kaya after so many rejections and ghostings, I was so close to giving up on getting a new job this year.

Though I'm employed naman as a junior dev (my first dev role), sobrang lowballed ng salary and increases, so I've been applying for almost a year now. Casually lang nung less than 1YOE palang ako, pero medyo dumalas na yung pumansin after ko mag 1 year, so dun ako naging active mag-send ng applications.

Now I can say na baka meant to be yung rejections ko for this: a role where tinake into account ng hiring manager and future team yung overall tech experience ko during the hiring process (whereas madalas inooverlook yung past BPO exp ko), and a company that has also given me the best offer I've ever gotten in my career thus far (my asking was just 35k, they gave almost 2x that) and will hopefully be a good career stepping stone 🥹🙏

Cheers, and good luck sa lahat ng job hunters!

P.S. I stopped tracking my applications nung October, after my last really long application process that ended in rejection kasi ang sakit nang makita nung figures 😅🥲 I think that helped with my mental, kasi medyo suko na talaga ako nun (timing din that the company that ended up hiring me contacted me shortly after that 🥹) To summarize though, umabot ako ng 400+ applications, pero less than 40 yung actually gumalaw (na umabot sa point na may nag-reach out for screening).

Finally landed a new job after almost a year of job hunting 🥳