How Many Interviews Does It Take to Land a Job?

There's been a lot of talk on LinkedIn about companies requiring more and more and more interviews to land a job.

Based on what I've seen, it almost seems like 7 interviews is the norm nowadays.

But I wanted to find out for sure.

So I ran a poll on LinkedIn, asking people how many interviews it took to land their most recent job.

Before I get into the results, a few caveats:

• This is not a scientific survey.
• The number of interviews required to land a job likely varies based on the level of the position.
• People may have different interpretations of what constitutes an interview. For example. one person may consider a recruiter screen an interview, and someone else may not.
• If someone has been in a position for a while, the number of interviews required to land that job may have changed.

Without further ado, here are the results of the poll:

As you can see from the results, 78% of the 313 respondents report landing their most recent job with 1-3 interviews.

That's definitely a higher percentage than I expected.

At the same time, I'm personally disappointed that 23% of people needed 4-7+ interviews to land a job.

That, in my opinion, should be the exception, and only for very high-level positions.

What are your thoughts? Anything that you find surprising or interesting about the results?

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