New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Shift in the job market here to stay?

Ask HN: Shift in the job market here to stay?
12 by movingmove | 5 comments on Hacker News.
As everyone here probably, from 2010 to 2020, it took me not more than 2-3 weeks to land a new job, and could probably have 3-4 offers in that time span. I am an experienced Engineer, 15 years, published books. When I am applying now, 50% of applications through direct job posting yield no response. I go with recruiters and have a 99% chance of getting to the second step of the interview. After that, no matter how well the coding challenge went, I get a rejection with the reason: "Someone has more exact skill overlap", "Not experienced enough" etc. I am applying at around 15 jobs, and have yet to get one offer. And if people think that's not a lot. I am talking about 15 jobs where I am going through at least 3-4 steps, all at the same time. I see more hiring and higher salaries in the Blockchain space (And AI slowly) than any other field. Bigger names like Cloudflare, Red Hat etc. don't even answer my application. What do you folks do to handle this situation? I am skilling up every day at work and started more side projects to learn from, but get rejections nevertheless. Any strategy you employ to get through this? Any end in sight?

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