Job hunting is hard. It works in itself – there’s all that cover letter writing and résumé tweaking, not to mention the sheer number of interviews you’ll have to go through. It’s incredibly common these days for tech companies to have multiple rounds of interviews so that you can meet with people from different teams within the business to assess your skills across a number of competencies – your technical abilities, culture fit, and motivation, for example.
If, after all that, you don’t get the role you’ve gone for, it can be incredibly demoralising. But it is important to remember that the process does take time: a 2018 study ascertained that it takes around five months to land a job.
Within those five months, on average, you’ll create four different edited versions of a CV (as well as four cover letters), submit seven job applications, and attend five job interviews. So what can you do to refine your process?
Ask for feedback
It is not the nicest thing to have to do, but you should ask the hiring manager or recruiter for some feedback on your interview. You may not love what you hear, but thank them for their time and try to take their feedback on board for your next interview round.
Refine your CV
One of the reasons you may not even be getting interviews in the first place is down to one simple reason: you’re not adding keywords from the job description into your CV. Hiring managers are busy, often recruiting for multiple roles at the same time, so they rely on screening software to refine candidates for interviews. If your CV doesn’t have key skills that match the job’s responsibilities and requirements, you’re already at a disadvantage.
Pick yourself up
It’s hard, but getting a new job is a numbers game. Depending on the job, a typical employer will interview six to ten candidates for a job from all the applications it receives, and candidates will go through a minimum of two or three rounds of interviews before receiving an offer. Focus on your strengths, work on any feedback received, and get back out there.
Ready to dip your toe into the job market? We have three roles below worth exploring, as well as plenty more to discover on the Silicon Canals Job Board.
Revenue Management Implementation Project Leader, Amadeus
The Role: Amadeus’ Revenue Management System is a top of the art product, used by companies such as Singapore Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Finnair and Alaska Airlines. The Revenue Management Implementation Project Leader will handle project management activities and will play a significant customer-facing role requiring good organisation skills and ability to work hands-on at all levels within airline customers’ business and within Amadeus solutions.
The Responsibilities: You’ll be responsible for organising, planning and monitoring the implementation activities of your project including airline deliveries and will support the airline in managing third parties. You will conduct the implementation through task coordination, stakeholder reporting and proper communication.
The Requirements: The right person can meet airline and program requirements with minimal intervention from management, provide project governance and communication matching Amadeus’ standard and achieve customer and project team satisfaction. Apply now.
Partner Solutions Architect (Remote – French Speaking), Aiven
The Role: Aiven’s partner team is looking for a Partner Solution Architect to join the global team to create an exponential distribution of Aiven products and work with the sales team on pre-sales and post-sales motion.
The Responsibilities: You’ll work with new partner opportunities as well as developing existing partnerships. You’ll be an active contributor during the sales process and will act as a subject matter expert and be the link between the Aiven product organisation and partners.
The Requirements: You will need previous experience in solutions architecture; experience working with partners is ideal. Fluency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go or Ruby is required, and you will be knowledgeable with public clouds (AWS, Google or Azure) and in the areas of compute, storage – block and object, networking, and security groups. Apply now.
Director of Technology Compliance (FinTech), Railsbank
Railsbank is continuing to grow its product capabilities and international expansion. The Director of Technology Compliance (FinTech) role will support and oversee its certification regimen. You will report directly to the Group CISO, and will start with an initial direct report. You will be on-top of new and emerging security threats, security frameworks, and regulations. You will need to have more than seven years’ modern technology experience in microservices, CI/CD, AWS, DAST, and two years in technology audit, including as an auditee. Technology risk management experience, supply chain compliance experience and creation and maintenance of the mapping of all company-wide data assets used in the organisation are also required. Apply now.
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