Please recruiters have a heart. Why is everything so insane right now. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I have applied to 70 specialized roles over the course of 4 months, and out of that number I'm happy to say I have received 4 recruiter calls. In previous years (2024) where a call meant that I was at minimum getting to the hiring manager round. I keep getting met with these AI tools instead of them note taking? My role is in Game Dev, obviously super heavy market right now. But here it goes.
1st call: Recruiter said he needed someone that used Unity. I am a person that used unity and shipped games across multiple other game projects 4 engines total, 2 proprietary, 1 Unreal and 1 Unity. His response was baffling.
"We need someone that uses Unity"
it made no sense to me. However we continued the interview, and he gave me a Rejection letter 2 weeks later.
2nd Call: I followed up with a different recruiter after submitting my application. She told me "I love your resume, I will call you Monday". I received a rejection letter the following Thursday.
3rd Call: I had a full recruiter call experience. Answered all my questions while the recruiter opted to taking AI notes for the call. Told me that next steps were the HM interview in 3 days and to standby for the email. I sent a thank you email, where he suddenly responded vaguely in LinkedInese? It has been 2 weeks since then, soooo GHOSTED is where I'm at.
4th Call: I decided to go back to apply to Security work for Overnight something I used to do. I received an email to call the recruiter for a 5 minute phone call. I was out of the country but was able to email her that I would return her call when I was back in 3 days.
Upon arrival I called her, just for her to respond, that ALL of the 8 open positions, had been hired for.
- But she said that, She received my email and just didn't respond to it.
You received it? And didn't respond saying ANYTHING at all, not the urgency of hiring, not that my timeline wouldn't work for you. Just zero comms.
So here I sit. ranting in this subreddit hoping I learn something. ANYTHING from how I've been going about this. Because a lot of these recruiters just aren't interested in letting me get to someone that will let me pass a technical interview.
(Update the recruiter from call number 2 just reposted the position I got rejected for???)
I'm just in a bad situation, I have another 30 days of funds and then that's it. I just need a job, any job but it's so bad right now. So I need to know from a few recruiters.
What's happening on your side that I can do better to prove to you that I can do the job that I've been trained in for the last 8 years with multiple AAA game credits to my name.
What can I possibly do to, get passed the AI note takers, the bad communication, and the false promises. To avoid that fate of having to leave everything behind, go into debt and move back in with my parents across the country?