What the heck. I don’t know how many times I see an ad and want to tailor my resume, so I plan to work on it next and then, after 1 day the company closes the job. 😫 99 applications in 24h. And that is only on LinkedIn.
I find this job market very strange. I know maybe some people just click on apply to see how much effort the application is, so the number is inflated, but still!
Do you think these jobs are for real? I guess these could be pseudo postings to meet legal requirements when they already have internal candidates. But it sucks jf you actually put in work to tailor your CV and then the job isn’t even actually a real opportunity. Maybe it’s smarter to wait for a few days of the position opening before applying, see if it’s still open so you don’t put in tons of effort to customize the resume for nothing?
How do you deal with this?
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We put an ad on LinkedIn, since HR hadn’t paid for premium there was a limit on how many applicants could apply per day. It may or may not be related
but that’s not surprising, just people spamming the easy apply linkedin application.
99 applicabts just shows you that 99 people have just clicked on „Apply“. That does not mean effectvly 99 ppl have applied for this role. Just be aware of this. Its an LinkedIn thing.
I can confirm: When we’ve opened positions for my team, we had to close after a couple of days because the amount of CVs we received (most of them not good) was crazy high.
Have you checked the Swisscom hiring page? Maybe there the position is still listed
Theres a limit on the number of applications a company can receive over LinkedIn without paying. LinkedIn doesn’t tell you this upfront, but it’s buried deep in the support area.
I’d check for the ad still being present on the company website.
Application slop, it depends on the quality, not the quantitiy of applications
Komm in die Pflege. Da hast kein Problem mit Bewerbungen.
They got 99 bot applications and not to process it through 🙂
Swisscom and Swiss Post are baaaad offenders here. Certain jobs (in marketing especially) are up for maybe 2 days most of the time. I called after one of them once for the same reason as you, and they told me they had too many applicants.
So yeah, it sucks. I still think they should communicate an application deadline instead, even if it’s 2 days.
It is what it is.. The job market is kinda crazy right now.. A few months ago, we opened a position at my company, and in just 2 days we got over 300 applications. I can’t even imagine what it’s like at larger companies, tbh
99 applicants could mean they clicked on the application page but don’t mean they have applied.
Easy apply.
I once published a job in linkedin with easy apply and I had 30 applications in 1 hour. 29 of them were from people that are completely unqualified, living abroad or both.
Globalisation, the whole world is competing.
Yeah we were recently hiring a portfolio manager, opened the position on linkedin and closed it after 1 day. We could cherry pick from the best. The market is brutal now…
I had an interview in a bank last week: the hiring manager told me he received 168 cv and is doing 25 first rounds. This is the new normal
This screenshot is possibly misleading. Those days the LinkedIn job portal is so fucked that when you post a job with a certain budget, it burns the budget in one day and then closes the application. This might be the case. Might reopen soon
Had a similar experience, the role was closed on linkedin but still open on the official website:) In my experience when we left a job position open, you get hundreds of applications some are not even living in Switzerland, don’t have residency status and just to filter through all that takes time especially if an application tracking system isn’t set up. And to be fair I prefer a person filtering through the application than an automation
I had a brief experience in recruiting, using LinkedIn Professional Recruiter license.
Those are just the ones who click on Apply. Also, I can tell you that most probably 90-95% of those applicants are from other regions, therefore not eligible for the job. Also LinkedIn has an automatic block on your advert when it receives a high number of applications in short time. Yes, even when you pay for it, they block it. LinkedIn is garbage.
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From what I’ve heard from friends the RAV makes you apply to a certain amount of jobs regularly which made me think that these kinds of job openings must be flooded with people that maybe aren’t even right for the job but have to fulfill a quota. Always wondered about the effect of that on hiring
Always has been like this for young people these 2 last years. Only applied to jobs with 99+ applicants. HR told me once they received more than 700 applicants. Usually it is expected to receive at least 250-300. Eventually I was lucky enough to obtain something
That’s just a fake job post, good I dont have Swisscom…
Some South Asia country is exporting their unemployment.
Ok, so I am in Basel. Was unemployed for 1.5 years. Managed to get a temp contract for 6months. Had to also take a pay cut. And I’m actively networking and applying strategically. Nothing has come up at all.
I have applied to two positions recently which I tailored my CV for perfectly. My boss helped me. He even knew the guys hiring and contacted them directly and said I am applying and put in a good word. Not sure if that was a good thing or not. But he is helping. No interview and very quick rejections. Which baffles me. I expected at least a first round interview. Job I knew would be competitive, but at least first round chat.
Then I realized what is actually going on specifically in my field. They are putting out job applications, but already have candidates in mind internally. And then they hire internally instead of externally. I also overheard one of these guys at networking event mention that they filled the position internally.
I also heard from someone else I know at another company that they are hiring. But mainly filling positions from internally.
So I guess it’s like a hiring freeze of some sort. At least in my industry.
At least that’s my hypothesis and only thing that keeps me sane. Otherwise I would feel pretty worthless.
Once my temp contracts ends in May, my RAV benefits will also come to an end. Then I have nothing. And I am pretty sure I won’t have a job by 2027 with this market unless I am lucky.
RAV pushes people to apply so many of them don’t really try to tailor anything. I also don’t know what you change so much on your resume from one job application to another other than some keywords tbh. Also, there are jobs that are open since more than 6 months, where they just post every month, collect resumes and close. I have no clue why everyone is wasting each other’s time this much.
Tailoring your CV is a double edged sword. Especially if you are over tailoring. You either worked as a product owner before or not. The hiring person on the other side is either looking for someone who did work as one in the past, or not.
I am hiring for a position in a niche + niche field ( not in Switzerland). I got 25 resumes in front of me after HR filtering. The problem is I don’t have time to interview all of them and I still have my regular job to do. Only looking at the CVs, I have:
– 10 CVs that clearly look over-tailored to the job listing. Making me suspicious if they are truthful in their CV, and they will receive the most job specific interview questions to filter them out.
– 5 CVs that are not tailored CVs but they look like they would be a fit for the role based on relevant but not exact experience. They will receive “can this person learn the job” questions.
– 10 completely irrelevant applicants that I will reject without offering an interview. I thank them for not wasting my and their time.
Forget LinkedIn. If you’re interested in the job, apply there via their job portal.
LinkedIn actually earns money if people click the “apply” button – and it kills the hiring experience of recruiters.
Also, assume that the majority – not the minority – of CVs is not even qualified. So, from 99 applicants maybe 20 are considered more seriously, the rest is simply thrown away. If you have serious experience, your chances getting in there are much higher than 1:99, but of course not 1:2 or 1:4, nonetheless.
Don’t use linkedin to apply to jobs. Most of them dont even exist. I used to work for a bank that had a HQ in Zurich, and there would be open positions on linkedin which didn’t exist on our internal job board.
What I did was: I made a list of around 20-30 companies that I would want to work for.
I went to their /careers website, saved the links, and would check them all every 4-5 days and apply there directly. It’s not guaranteed, but there is a better chance that you are applying for jobs that actually exist.
AI Bot Applications from everywhere.
Most aren’t even remotely eligible for the position.
Last time I open a job on LinkedIn (Jan 2025) I got 100 applications in 2 hours. Nobody was a suitable candidate.
When i was a TL, 90% of the applicants were from india, those people does not read just apply.
Thanks for the hint. I need those for RAV 😉
Job postings being applied to?
Many applications to a big company?