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Fairly tough.

I got laid off 2.5 months ago. Decided to take a 2 months to center myself. Ive dropped about 12 applications now, had 1 interview at second round. Another contact me, then ghost me, and 2 "sorry you arent a fit", the rest have been silence.

Im a Senior devops/automation engineer, 20 year career in some IT field.

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You'll need to send much more than 12, try 2-3 a day for a month. Of those, maybe 5% will reply, but it's not bad that bad once you get into the swing of it.

Yeah if only there were actually openings, thats the problem. The market is crap atm. Its not like ive not applied to a job before, or dont have experience.

12 applications feels quite low in the current market

Not many openings at the moment. Those 12 are ones ive swooped on as theyre posted. Even going back 30 days hasnt yielded many, maybe 2-3.

Been checking boards 2-3 times a day 6 days a week since beginning of august

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