u/bubblesb1

Been unemployed for a little over 3 months now. Got let go from my last job after 4+ years there (over one missed deadline).

Since then I've applied pretty much everywhere I can. But after 500+ applications, I haven't landed a single interview.

Back in 2020 I got hired with barely any experience and it felt easy in comparison. Now I've got 4 years of real experience and I'm getting ghosted by every single company.

How is the market any different from 2020 ? If anyone's gotten hired recently, could you give me a hand ?

I’ve heard of those AI interview tools for a little over a year now so I decided to run a little experiment in my CS class.

Ran a private google form and out of 74 students, 61 said they used InterviewCoder or some other AI tool during their interviews (internships mostly).

Imagine how much higher this would be in community colleges/online cs courses.

AI is going to change the job market and you can't change my mind.

Hey I had a question about market research, what is the best way to do it?

I know that I want to build something in the sports analysis niche. I have some expertise that I built over the years, but I suck at market research, and I don’t really have the budget to hire a big consulting firm to do it.

What are the best ways you have found to conduct market research and in consequence was able to build a product that was important and your ICP’s were ready to pay for.

And I don’t mean Claude or ChatGPT, more like those AI assistants that live in your phone. Please give me suggestions!!

Solo founder, B2B outbound, I am in a niche where Apollo and ZoomInfo are pretty much always wrong on anything past name and title, which made my reply rate pretty bad around 2%.

I tried something, because I'm very busy with other tasks. I dont really have time to research each prospect, and I always try to find the best way to delegate.

So I crowdsourced it. Posted the 50 companies I want to target as a task, set a small payout pool per accepted cold email structure , let people compete and contribute, then paid only the ones I'd use.

3 weeks: reply rate ~2% to ~10%, 6 meetings booked, 2 in a sales process, under $250 total.

Super cool solutions, would recommend!