Job Search Statistics

Let's take a look at my job search statistics.  Since losing my job, I have applied for 45 jobs and sent my resume another 25 times without having any specific position to apply for.  This has led to one in person interview where there is a real job opening; this of course ended in rejection.  There were two other in person "interviews" where they're interviewing in case an opening comes up in the future; I'm doubtful on one of those and modestly hopeful on the other. 

I've had six phone interviews with actual companies.  Two are official rejections.  One went very poorly so we'll put that one down as a rejection.  One, I haven't heard back from after a few weeks, but I just followed up this week so maybe I'll hear back.  I feel like it's been too long already and am not feeling optimistic.  Another phone interview was over a month ago and I'm not feeling good there either.  The last one, they decided to close their Minnesota office so at least I can say that one's not my fault. 

Lastly, I've met (either in person or over the phone) with 8 recruiting companies.  I can pretty much say that so far, they've been pretty useless. 

So, let's remove the recruiting companies from the stats (five of the jobs I applied for were actually for a recruiting company).  So 65 resumes sent out led to 9 interviews, 12 official rejections, and no job offers.  Still, the fact that I've generated some interviews is probably a good thing.