I sent 150 CV in a month – statistics and opinion [Warszawa – Korporacje]

[TL:DR] I sent 150CV, I had over 30 interactions with employers, many conversations, and only two offers. (I’m very happy)

Hi,

I am writing this post because I would like to show how important it is to send many CVs. My case mainly concerns Warsaw and large corporations, but it illustrates well what this process looks like in practice and in other cities will be similar. Over the past month, I sent 150 applications to Business Analyst positions (in which I have several years of experience, I think 5 years is a conservative term. I have only completed large corporations). This is a fairly wide profile, which in various companies means something completely different – sometimes a technical analyst from IT, sometimes a person from processes and reports, and sometimes someone from sales analysis, to the investment fund also happened. Thanks to this, I could apply for many different ads in large organizations and contractors.
If in the advertisement I see that I fit at least a bit of skills, I do not wonder and send (usually it is over 60%anyway).

Despite the number of CV sent, I only had real interactions with employers 20% of cases. The chart I prepared is not perfectly accurate, but the numbers are very similar to the actual and reflect the proportions of the whole process well.

I led myself an Excel, in which I had links to the work to which I applied, along with dates and if it was possible with the fork that I gave.

Short explanation of the graph:
Rejections – Either just the e -mails I got with a refusal or no answer.
Interaction – Any form of entering into contact with the employer, whether this is the e -mail inquiry about my availability, financial expectations, or a short telephone conversation with a recruiter in order to make an appointment for a longer one.
Ghosted – Just a lack of contact after I bounced the ball, this ghosting happened and after subsequent stages of recruitment, but I placed them in that place so as not to sit over the graph.
Recruiter conversation – I treated it as a preliminary conversation / first round of conversations to check if it fits the company or project, and if it is also what I want.
Second round – Simply the second round, most often with someone from the team with whom I would cooperate or with the band’s manager. Sometimes a task to be done. Sometimes it turned out that it turned out that we didn’t understand the recruiter at all.
Third round – Well, these are the final conversations, most often with potential bosses and possibly colleagues, sometimes with the head of our potential bosses.
Final offer – The offer that is already on the table and the decision belongs to me whether I accept it or not.

Brief thoughts:
I am very pleased with the number of answers I received. I think this is a good result, in the last 30 days I had over 20 recruitment talks. Although these 20% seem little, I think it is a lot, in addition, my financial expectations are often highly the upper financial fork to the position, so and therefore responsiveness could be smaller. In addition, there are still phone calls, but I don’t take them to statistics anymore because they wouldn’t change them much. Finally, I accepted the job offer that I liked the most with all of these, so I’m happy with the result.

Attention: GPT is used to describe my style of applying, etc., because it would come out too much gibberish, but it will still be a bit, sorry.

Applying to applying:
My way of applying for a job looked very systematically and massive. In one month I sent about 150 applications.
I had one CV, which did not sound too general, but it was also relatively universal. I tried to contain words of the keys from my work which is hot at the moment, for example "PowerBI" I used LinkedIn most often, but from time to time I also looked at pracuj.plwhere I was looking for ads after specific key words, because I wouldn’t mind changing my career. I sporadically used IT industry portals, such as TheProtocol, and sometimes I just went directly to the pages of large corporations that I had in my head and checked their tabs with job offers.

I also had my filters – I rejected ads issued by recruitment agencies or recruiters from India, because I knew from experience that it was a waste of time and nothing came of it. If the advertisement looked quite matching, I did not think too long, but I immediately sent the application. I did not want to lose hours to analyze if I fit perfectly – the volume was more important to me, and the selection took place later, at conversations.

In the case of forms in Workday systems, where it was necessary to manually rewrite the entire history of work or education, I just closed what was necessary and threw CV. I was not going to duplicate information that is already in the attachment. Interestingly, because of such “curses” the form I got the final offer – which shows that mainly the CV itself counts.

I approached the whole process without emotional commitment. Sending the application I treated a bit like releasing a lotto coupon – you mark the numbers, send and go on. I could not imagine how my life would change if this company sounds. Such considerations and choices begin only when a conversation or offer on the table actually appears.

In short: mass and quick application, rejecting senseless advertisements from Hindus because nothing comes of it, minimum effort with useless forms and a full emotional distance.

I don’t want to tell too much here so as not to bore and I will not put everything in the post and I will forget something so it will be easier for me to answer the questions.

I will only tell about my CV what is on it, because in total it is the most important thing to get a chance to talk to a man, i.e. the next stage.

My CV is in the format "old schoolowym" and fully in English. With English, I think that if the employer requires that the CV be in Polish because he will not review it otherwise, I just would not like to work there. On the CV I also do not have a photo (or stag status, as I can see xD sporadically), and the CV is double -sided – all information, such as positions, duties, schools and skills, and on the other side descriptions of the projects where I worked and what I did in them. The CV is originally a template in Word, which it saves in PDF, no canvy is playing, because I know that sometimes ATS systems do not like them.

Not for every candidate’s profile, my template is good and you need to find yours. Just as two pages are not advisable when there is not much experience. Or when it is important that the CV look visually attractive, I used to use such things for such things resume.io .

However, some time ago, my old school template that I was skeptical and which one of the people from Reddit sent me her template, which just came to me, which I just came to me, which just came to me and suited my skeptical, which just came to me and suited to be a double -page – thank you very much!

What do I have in your CV:
First page: contact details, e -mail address, city in which he lives.
The history of employment, along with the duties I performed. I have 5 bulletpoints in the last position, the others are a little described. Bulletpoints are full sentences, not short "Project transport". Already in these bulletpoints I have sometimes contained words of keys that may appeal to ATS systems.
I also have my studies on this CV, as well as weekend MBA which I will only start in 3 months, unless I reject me (I have dates given with him from the future). It would be important to me that I would also make an MBA (and I have written in absentia), and there was a positive reception during conversations.

I also have a skill section:
I just have words in the skill "PowerBI", "English (C2)", "Excel", "Agile methodologies" etc.

On the other side I have described projects in which I participated in what I did with them and what my tasks were. They allow themselves to imagine what I worked with, and how diverse I have experience.

First of all, in this post I want to make people aware of how important it is to send a CV and that sending 3 a week may not have any results. And they would also realize that the low number of answers is not caused by the fact that they are suck, and that it just looks like this. It is not just about the corpo, but also various places and different fields.

Although this is a post on the example of Warsaw, I think he can go to r/Poland Because not only in Warsaw there are corporations, but going further, not only in Warsaw, people are looking for a job.
I would also like others to join the discussion here with their experiences. To ask questions and answer them, so I encourage you.