r/Tsenta

11 weeks. 200 something applications. a lot of silence. a few processes that went somewhere and then didn't. and then yesterday a company i genuinely like sent an offer that i'm going to accept. i'm not posting this to be the "hang in there it gets better" person because i know how hollow that feels when you're in week 7 with nothing. i'm posting because i was starting to genuinely question whether the market had just decided i didn't exist anymore. it hadn't. the job is there. the offer is real. i checked the email like four times this morning to make sure it was still there. still there.

the message said they came across my profile and thought i'd be a great fit for an opportunity at a company they're partnering with. I recognized the company name. I recognized the JD. It is my old job. I held the role for three years. They laid me off in a restructuring. The role has been open since February. I know because I occasionally look out of morbid curiosity. I did not reply immediately. I made some tea. I thought about it. Then I wrote back asking if the role came with a 40% increase from my previous salary there to account for inflation and the trauma. I have not received a reply yet.

Genuine question and not asking to be defensive about it just curious. Like does an application coming through a tool like this look any different on the ats side than one submitted manually. I know the resume gets tailored and submitted but does the application metadata give anything away. Has anyone gotten feedback from a recruiter or hiring manager about this either way?

three weeks ago my manager said we were bringing on someone junior to help with my workload. great. i've been stretched thin. i started training her last week. she's smart, she's picking things up fast, good for her genuinely. but i've been watching what i'm being asked to cover with her and something clicked yesterday. she's not learning the support tasks. she's learning my core responsibilities. the institutional knowledge stuff. the client relationships. the processes only i know. nobody has said anything different to me. my role looks the same on paper. but i spent last night going back through the last 6 weeks and my manager has been quietly reducing my exposure to leadership. fewer meeting invites. fewer decisions routed through me. i might be wrong. i genuinely hope i am. but my gut is loud right now.

ok so hit 100 sent applications this week and honestly wasnt expecting to have actual observations but here we are. the biggest thing i noticed is companies on greenhouse tend to process way faster than workday ones, like sometimes same day. also my match score sweet spot seems to be around 65 to 75 percent, anything above 80 feels off somehow. just thought id share in case it helps anyone optimizing their setup. whats been your experience with volume vs quality on your end?

Hi, I recently found tsenta for job applying and I tried applying for a job with the default settings. When I check its tailored resume (honest option not aggresive), it seems to add phrases from the job description into my existing points and in doing so a lot of the phrases don't make much sense. Anyone who had luck or is there some other thing I can tweak to improve the tailoring aspect of the tool.

Also does a 2 page resume negatively affect my chances, because after tailoring it always ends up becoming a 2 page resume from my original one page.

I want to document this for posterity. Last year, three rounds in with a company. Final round scheduled. Day of the final round, recruiter went completely silent. No show on the call. No follow-up email. Nothing. I waited a month, sent a check-in, never heard back. Moved on. Fast forward 7 months, I get an email from the same recruiter at the same company asking if I am still open to exploring opportunities and whether I would be interested in chatting. No acknowledgment of what happened. Just a fresh start as if none of it occurred. I did not reply but I have been thinking about what I would have said

built this entire automation workflow from scratch. 6 weeks. saved the company roughly 40 hours a week in manual work. my manager presented it in the company all-hands today as "an initiative the ops team pushed through." I was in the meeting. On camera. Watching it happen. This isn't even the first time. I have the slack messages, notion docs, git commits, everything documented. what's the move here. do i bring it up directly, escalate, or just quietly update my resume and leave

don't mean this as a knock on him genuinely. We graduated the same year, same field, he never had a LinkedIn, never optimized his resume, applied to like 12 jobs total. Got an offer in week 6. I have been at this for 4 months, LinkedIn completely filled out, resume through 3 different review services, 200+ applications. I know this is survivorship bias and networking and luck and a lot of other things. I know. But sitting with this feels bad. Is it all just who you know at the end of the day

I genuinely don't know what to do with this information. They reached out to ME on LinkedIn. I did the screening call, the technical round, stayed up two nights finishing their take-home that was supposed to be 4 to 6 hours but was realistically 12 hours of actual work. Then today I got a generic rejection email saying I may be overqualified for the role at this stage. I wasn't even asking for their salary range, I just wanted a job. The worst part is I can't even be angry at one specific person. It's just the process. It's everyone and no one. Does this happen to people regularly or did I just get personally selected by the universe for this

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I have an offer for a role that's roughly two levels below what I was at my last job. The pay is okay not great. It would get me off savings runway and give me income while I keep searching. The fear is it signals a step backward to future employers, it takes energy away from job searching, and I might fall into the employed but miserable trap that makes it hard to leave. But the other option is keep burning through savings and feel increasingly desperate as the months pass. Has anyone taken the backwards step and what actually happened.

I found out today that the new hire i am training is making 15k more than i am. i have been here for three years and have a master's degree. he just graduated.

the only reason i found out is because we went to lunch and started talking about rent and student loans. companies want you to think it is rude or unprofessional to talk about pay because it keeps their costs down.

i took that info to my boss and asked for a market adjustment. they tried to say no until i showed them the data. if we do not talk to each other, the company wins and we lose. transparency is the only way to ensure fairness.

Saw a job posting for a junior associate

Requirements: 4 years of industry experience, proficiency in 3 Softwares that only came out 2 years ago, and a PhD is preferred.

Pay: $18/hr.

Is the entry part referring to the entry of my soul into the void? Because I don't know how anyone is supposed to survive this. Feels like companies wants a fully trained employee but don't wanna pay for one.

i am finishing my dissertation and i is completely burnt out. copying my resume into endless workday portals makes me want to cry. a colleague told me they is using tsenta to auto fill applications. i let it run locally in the background while i did my citations and it applied to fifteen roles for me. has anyone else tried tools like this? it is saving my mental health but i wonder if recruiters can tell.

I spent my twenties chasing a dream job in a high-pressure industry because I thought my identity was tied to my title. I finally got it, and i was miserable. the pay was great, but i had no time to spend it.

I realized that a dream job is often just a job that pays you enough to enjoy your actual life and gives you the energy to do so. I took a pay cut for a boring 9 to 5 with no weekends or late nights.

now I have hobbies again. I see my friends. I actually know my neighbors. your job should be the engine that funds your life, not the life itself. if your dream job requires you to give up your soul, it is actually a nightmare.

I spent a decade in Retail. I thought I had No Real Skills because i did not have a specialized degree or office experience. I was terrified to apply for anywhere else.

Then, a recruiter told me retail is just high stakes conflict resolution and inventory logistics.

I revamped my resume to focus on transferable skills. Instead of opening the store, I wrote managed daily operations and cash flow for a 2 million dollar revenue location. I start my new remote role on monday with a 40 percent pay increase. If you feel stuck, remember that you are not your job title, you are the skills you have gathered.

I used to be a spreadsheet purist. i had columns for everything from salary to interview dates. but after 100 applications it just became a graveyard of dead links and forgotten follow ups. i tried moving to notion to make it look aesthetic but i spent more time designing the board than actually applying to jobs.

Recently i started looking into ai automation tools that track everything for you in the background. it is weird to give up that control but the manual data entry was honestly part of my burnout. a spreadsheet doesnt apply for you, it just reminds you how much work you still have to do. i think i am done with manual trackers for good.

I’ve been at my current company for four years. For the first three, I was the "yes" person. I took every extra project, stayed late, and made sure my output was flawless. I thought this was the path to a promotion.

Last month, a colleague who does about 70% of the work I do but spends 50% of his time networking with directors got the Senior Manager role I wanted. When I asked my boss for feedback, he said, You’re TOO VITAL where you are. If I move you, the whole department’s workflow breaks.

I have learnt my lesson the hard way. don’t be the worker bee. be the person who manage the hive.