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Got fired due to economic reasons end of November 2025, started looking for a job right away (notice period 3 months) and luckily found a job after 1.5 months. Eastern Switzerland, I am in my thirties.
But, new job is not in my previous field of electrical engineering, but in Health, Safety and Environment (ASGS) where I have some previous education and will try build up on it.
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That’s pretty good IMO. So far I made 30 applications and only got an answer for 10 of them. No interview so far.
Congrats. Not so bad.
Congratulations of landing a new job in a relativly short period of time!
Seems like a pretty good hit rate.
Freelancing in film in London around 2008, the hit rate was about 3%. 97% of applications would not get an answer.
It’s partly a numbers game.
To all the people currently looking for a job (and I am aware that I was quite lucky only having to write 26 applications):
Stay persistent, look for joby outside of your field, apply for jobs where you don’t fit 100% of the requirements. For both jobs I got offers, I did not fit 100% of the requirements but I was able to convey the benefits I could bring the company and also that I am open to learn the missing skills.
All the applications where I fit >95% of the requirements got declined for either “found a better person” (which probably means a cheaper one) or that I am “overqualified” which was strange to me since I literally fit the description.
I wish all the people jobhunting good luck and all the best for finding your dream job soon.
Congrats.
Are you Swiss?
That’s great! Congrats!
What portals did you use for your search?
How much experience do you have? I have written over 100 applications since march 2025 and i got nothing. I have a bachelor degree, am a native swiss person and white (yeah we all know it should not matter, but it still does). If i try for jobs that are not a 100% fit i will get the response “nicht all anforderungen erfüllt” and if i do i get “jemanden der besser in das wunschrprofil passt”.
How. How did u do that. How do you write your applications? How do you look for jobs? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS
you’re doing well. Good conversion to interviews!
I was jobless for over a year. Send between 5-10 each month in the IT branch and got rejected from all of them exept two. One i withdraw one i acceptet. Interviews from over 100 applications are only got 15. Now i am in IT support as a developer
Congrats, 1.5m is record. I hope this means you enjoyed one month vacation being fully paid by the previous employer!
You got a job after 1.5 months with only 26 applications? These are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up [insert wolf of wallstreet meme here].
And I mean by that, the numbers itself are unusually low. You did pretty well. Congrats.
Since you said you found a job in a sector quite different from the one you were previously working in, how did you structure your proposal in those cases? I imagine you emphasized your earlier experience more than your experience from the most recent years. Is that correct?
Congratulations!
Well done!
Based on what usually gets posted about those that’s amazing, congrats.
I landed my current gig after only 3 applications, and that was 15 years ago, whenever I saw people sending hundreds and still not getting hired, I always wondered what would happen in my case if I ever decided to actively look for a new position.