Fast To Apply, Slow To Get Offers, When You Apply To Jobs On Your Phone

If you want to find your next job faster in early 2025, ditch your phone ...

While I'm not suggesting you toss you mobile phone out the window, I am suggesting that you don't want to apply for jobs on your phone.

There's a regular long-term unemployed poster on LinkedIn, who made a LinkedIn comment describing job search mistakes he's making that are keeping him long-term unemployed, struggling, being ghosted, and why he's not getting interviews when he's qualified, when he posted:

"From my experiences, it is best to download many job search apps on your phone if you have a smart-phone. This is because it is statistically easier and faster to apply for better-paying jobs on your smart-phone than using a desk-top computer."

This was more than a year ago and he's still long-term unemployed and struggling, living proof of a failed job search strategy.

And while he's right that it's easier and faster to apply for jobs on your phone, it's also highly unlikely you'll get interviews from jobs you've applied to on your phone. Even worse, it's almost impossible to advance in the interview process when you apply using your phone, because the few times you might get interviews, they are the lowest quality of interviews an employer offers (ones with the worst chances of getting hired).

Here are 3 reasons why you don't want to apply for jobs on your phone, if you want to find your next job fast in early 2025:

1. Spray And Pray Doesn't Work: Applying to as many jobs as you possibly can, while crossing your fingers and hoping you get lucky doesn't work in 2025. Doing the same thing over and over, hoping for different results, is Einstein's definition of insanity, because you're just doing more of what's not working.
2. Impossible To Customize: Heavy customization beats volume. It's nearly impossible to customize your resume on a smart phone for the needs of an individual employer (esp. without typos), and his whole process is to crank out the highest volume of applications that he can. He's almost certainly sending the same resume to each ad. To employers, lack of customization looks like a candidate isn't trying, so why give them an interview? ATSs are used to screen out non or less customized resumes nearly every time. To customize your resume to the extent needed to get through Applicant Tracking Systems, you need a keyboard and a screen large enough to view a document.
3. ATSs Are Programmed To Screen Out Non-Customized Resumes: Applicant Tracking Systems match on exact word and phrase matches. It's impossible to match enough words/phrases exactly, verbatim using the same standard resume, one you've saved on a job board, or your LinkedIn profile. Hiring managers/Recruiters/HR reps can tell your resume isn't customized in less than 10 seconds, and it looks like you don't care about their job ... that you're looking for any job. So why would they seriously consider you for a job?

And when you do get a interview by applying with a standard resume, you're getting the lowest quality interviews. Like interviews that are given to candidates they have no interest in considering for hire, to document why they aren't going to hire you, satisfying compliance or comparison HR policies.

Those aren't the interviews you want, if you're trying to find your next job faster in early 2025.

Good thing there's a better way to get more interviews, advance more often, and accelerate your job search in 2025.

Plus, there are even more strategies that will make it easier to find your next job in early 2025, and steps you can take right now to give you an advantage over your competitors. These strategies give you a head start, positioning you to be a hiring manager's top choice for new jobs being hired in 2025.

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