u/Reasonable-Park4603

I dont know how to make this actually work, but I do have the list of all the callbacks and positions that I heard something from.

Not sure if theres any negatives to it, but it may be worth any sort of metrics on the company: reviews fast, is active, etc.

Or even if its a repost.

USA

Ive been looking for a job for the past year. many interviews, several final rounds, but no offers.

Undergrad in Supply chain/Operations

Interned in supply chain planning for an electronics components manufacturer. Project of short term supply planning, safety stock recalculation and a order back-log production plan implemented.

Worked 2.5 years for a large transportation company in the managed services division. Client facing (so account manager and logistics manager), direct management of about 30 drivers. Dispatch, payroll, coaching, training, and coordination of freight brokers. P&L management too, with KPIs of revenue/truck, and client based metrics.

2 years at an electronics company in the order management. Heavy internal directing of other departments for accuracte and efficient processing of large sales orders. Duties in coordinating allocation, delivery dates, credit lines of customers, and any post sale disputes. Lots of general knowledge within the main retailer relationships (walmart, costco, etc), ~$500M in inventory pushed, and full sales lifecycle understanding. I will say I have this one posed more corporate, as this is all of the steps before the order is sent to the warehouse for fulfillment.

Back to school for masters in business. Operations oriented. I did a internship with a large tech hardware company, in finance. My main project was a sales analysis of the entire business unit, and understanding the timing issues of the late quarter sales that would actually be realized in the next quarter.

Im open to any industry, but I do like electronics or tech hardware. Very open to relocation. Currently in Southeast. Most interviews are for tech companies for order management realated positions in CA.

Any ideas even if its unheard of? I am going to look into nonprofits, startups, or other smaller businesses soon, as this corporate search is not quite working. Though framing my resume for those positions could be hard.

USA

After the 5th time ive been rejected at the final round, I am seriously starting to reconsider corporate work. At least for the time being. Though I do not know how to find this especially with a network that is corporate oriented.

Its just so competitive and Ive been at this search for a year now. I need to find something. Very read to start. Im back with family now, so expenses are low, but I need to unpause my life, and get back on living again.

USA

Right at a year now. Just got the rejection

2000 applications in, 50 screenings, 25 1st rounds, only 5 have gone further than the hiring manager interview.

"great attitude" "strong experience" "knowledgeable"

BUT

"more managing experience needed" "more broad experience needed" "other candidates aligned better" "no experience with Oracle" (i know SAP).

Only need 1 offer. But I cant land it

USA

I was getting many screening calls, and even hiring manager round interviews lately. None of them went past the hiring manager. Some went well, but never further.

There have been few positions that I interviewed for that were for a manager role, and those usually go further.

Its hard to stop applying for the analyst positions, but should I stop? It does take a decent amount of time to find an apply for them.

I have about 5 years of experience and a couple as a manager.

Corporate USA.

I mean more in the sense that it may only be scheduled for 30min, and the hiring manager does most of the talking. Usually answers most of my questions. I dont get to speak much on my pitch or background. Straightforward but unlikely experience asked about (uncommon computer programs, implemented specific programs).

All of these seem to be some sort of new position, and I can never quite get a read on if the hiring manager really knows the position. They are just focused on what it needs to be, and that might not even be the right tile or department.

USA,

I have about 5 years of experience in operations and supply chain. I was a manager of about 30 employees for a 3PL logistics company, with a small P&L. Good experience but not great industry. Then I was a lead analyst for an electronics company in an operations position. Ideal industry. I went back to school for a masters, and also had a summer position in tech, in finance. Pretty broad but rounded experience, and I do have a specialty field, though it is quite uncommon.

Well I graduated about a year ago. Its been a grueling process, lots of interviews, several final rounds, but no offers. Most interviews that have gone far are for manager positions with direct reports. Many screenings for analyst positions, but they dont go far. Mostly Tech and electronics companies.

In the past few weeks, I have had a consulting company reach out and it has gone really well, and got through the screening and first rounds. Very unexpected, they are a household name, but the consulting arm is unknown. Specialty in operations, and they (refreshingly) saw all my experience as a positive.

I applied to another position recently, and I had a recruiter reach out. Told me I was the only one they were looking at, and seemed very positive. Now this position is directly in my previous specialty, but the industry is not ideal. Now its a manager position, direct reports, and was my original "wants" when I entered grad school.

Of course neither of these are guaranteed, and I am leaning towards the consulting position. This could come quick, and I would need to make a decision fast. Ideally I want to make the move to tech hardware, electronics, or semiconductors. I feel either position could get me there, but the consulting one is a more likely path. Is the consulting position only a delay to make manager? Could it propel me to Sr Manager+?

Ive already been a manager, and I keep getting pulled in different directions, but I mean I am gaining good experience.

USA, interviewing for a position in a specialty firm in operations. I have several years of experience in operations and supply chain, a small P&L, management, client facing, and some finance. I went back to school and graduated with a masters (undergrad in operations too), but it has been an extremely difficult market to land a job. I think I understand the mindset shift needed, but what else should I be concerned for, or need to know since this wouldnt be big 4 or MBB?

I want to be in tech hardware, or electronics, and have experience in these industries too. Ideally semiconductor.

I feel like im doing all of this backwards, as many people here start in consulting, then go to industry. I would be starting out as a Consultant, not manager or anything (which I understand). I feel like I keep getting pulled in different directions throughout my career, and at I would be fine climbing the industry ladder, but that hasnt landed either.

Is this still a good move? How do I make this work so that I am not derailing a career in industry, or even if I want to stay in consulting?

I am still interviewing, so nothing is final.

Say I search for "operations manager" positions in the search box. I have it filtered from most recent, and Job Posts (not linkedin jobs). How come when scrolling, if its over around a week, its all posts from out of country and irrelevent postings?

Ive found Jitsi, Brave meet, Element, and Mirotalk, but I want to know if there are others that have good quality. I found Jitsi to be good for audio.

Corporate USA jobs,

I think alot of my issues in the job search is because I havent fully framed myself for senior manager positions. Of course right now its also very competitive. I went back to school for a masters, and was in management before. I have the experience. I did get some help the other day through a free service, and was told more explicitly what I could be missing. I have had many other calls about my resume, and most say I look good, but never about my exact level.

In this market I have interviewed for sr analyst positions, Manager, and 1 director role. Director did not go well. manager positions much better, lots of analyst positions, but never go past a 1st round.

Other industries like consulting have had some luck. But thats a complete start over. So i have enough experience too.

Corporate USA, this is the 3rd time now that I have interviewed for a position that is a manager is the IC level. The Hiring Manager is currently managing the employees. So this would step in and be the middle level (and with an intermediary title "assistant manager").

What is this? None of these have gone anywhere. But its the same situation over again. Not usually a backfill. WHy would they even be allowed to build the team out but not be promoted? is it fishing for talent? Gaining knowledge if they arent capable?

Finally getting traction. It comes and goes though. February was slow. It's not an offer. I've been looking right to a year now and I'm about 2100 applications in. About 30-40 a week. I've got several years of experience and now living back home. Many jobs are not great pay but movement is a relief. I hope I can get something before the summer really kicks in, I've heard it can be slow.

I've got so may searches. I've really narrowed down the exact keywords that are specific to my exact job. And every mixture of them. I'm in Order Management (supply chain ops). "Order coordinator" "order manager" "order to cash" "order to delivery" etc etc. pulled through my excel sheet of all titles and the other terms it could be labeled. It's all in the titles search of Hiring Cafe. And in the Keywords. Then I move from the keywords to the description. Then I delete titles and put it in only the keywords. Then only the description.

Another search is every single company I could think of in my industry. Looked up lists of companies. Another search is the relatable industries.

I do this every day. I'm caught up. I'm never applying to anything over a day old. Resume has been changed 30 times and seems to keep working. I'm sort of in the middle of analyst and manager positions so I don't get too far for analyst but further for manager.

You've seriously got to position yourself as the expert of your exact job. I mean research, articles, AI, everything. Join the groups and look at others LinkedIn for info. Message/ friend request and ask if they do similar. Get in their friends lists to help get engagement of the positions. Across industries. Across companies. Across departments.

For instance my title has a different title for SaaS. "Rev ops" or "sales ops" I've got interviews before but I've also learned it's a completely different job. So I have a search of just the title, but in the keywords I add "supply chain" "warehouse" "logistics" to filter out SaaS.

Some screening don't go anywhere. It's so damn competitive. Hiring managers have told me straight up. I've been in the final round multiple times. I was searching every company and had a list weekly and it was jus too slow. LinkedIn search wasn't good either. I still do a keyword search and look for people's posts on it though about once a week.

Good luck and if you've learned any more let me know! Hopefully things ease up but I don't know. Confidence gets low at times but I wanted to help!

Hi! I've got a management case study interview coming up. It's for a smaller firm that is pretty heavy in operations. They did send me a couple test cases from their site but they seem kind of vague. Like it's the situation, and some more info like in manufacturing situations (ex. 3 stages of assembly, but 1 product skips a stage etc.) but not really too deep from there. On the other hand there's one that's more math heavy.

Does it sort of stop and need to give a conclusion once you've identified the general problem?

I tried it with Claude and it went super deep with a ton of numbers and I got most of it but I just don't know if it's the right path. Especially since the trial case didn't have any numbers. I don't have any help so I need feedback on a realistic case depth.

My main issue is when I see or hear the background, I have a ton of questions to try and narrow down to the problem. From here I have trouble identifying which are most important, or either picking the main topics to choose from in a list of frameworks that I have laid out. Its hard for me to think so wide early on, then think of how to dig deeper. I think in a way that is going deep, first.

For management style cases