Four days of silence after a four-hour task
A cold approach on LinkedIn, a four-hour task for one company and a two-hour task for another, the final stages of both — and then one of them stopped replying, and the days started being counted.
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120 applications, 8% callback
Six months, a hundred and twenty applications, and no reply at all to nearly half of them.
Three quarters, no human in the loop
Sixty applications over five months. Thirty-three were closed before anyone met her — and she was the one who had to work that out.