Finding a job in tech is a mess
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Finding a job in tech is a mess

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This week WIRED Start explores the tech job market: Dozens of applications and interviews, hours spent tweaking résumés, and a conference and career fair turned Hunger Games.?

A reckoning for the once unsinkable industry

Tech companies around the world laid off more than 400,000 workers in 2022 and 2023, according to Layoffs.fyi , a site that tracks job losses across the industry. A year after many of those cuts began, job seekers are still facing a tough market, fighting for a smaller number of spots in a job sector that once promised high salaries, lavish perks, and security.

The tech job market “doesn’t show any signs of turning around just yet,” says Julia Pollak, chief economist with online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter. After growing at a healthy pace before and during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the information sector has lost about 2.5 percent of its jobs over the past year, Pollak says. That’s keeping more people at the same jobs for longer, she adds, and stifling promotion opportunities. There is still demand for tech workers outside of the traditional tech industry, like in government and health care—though salaries here are often lower.

The prolonged downturn in the tech market is breeding anxiety and making people more aggressive in their job searches. In September, men showed up in droves to the Grace Hopper Celebration , an annual conference and career fair targeted toward female and nonbinary tech workers, who are underrepresented in the industry. The conference, meant to connect and celebrate women in tech, exemplified the desperation workers feel as they try to land jobs after completing computer-science-related majors.?

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Heather Gavranovic

Head of Strategic Growth @ ACTIONABLE | Connector, Strategist, Growth Enthusiast | Shaping the Future of ACTIONABLE

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Staying relevant is important even when you are not looking for a job!

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Stellar qualifications do not matter in today's job market. Strong relationships do matter. The real question is, how long can the beneficiaries of such job placements who rely on strong relationships last when those placed lack the will to stay on the hamster wheel for learning new skills and improving those skills that have languished though they remain relevant.

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