https://severinbucher.com/tags/job-search/Recent content in Job Search on Severin Bucher | BlogHugoenSun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/the-broken-job-search/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/the-broken-job-search/<p>If you&rsquo;re applying to hundreds of jobs and hearing nothing back, it probably isn&rsquo;t you. The way the funnel is set up works against you.</p> <p>Big companies dominate job boards like LinkedIn partly because they pay for placement. A single listing at a well-known corporation can pull over a thousand applications, and a lot of them get auto-filtered before a person ever looks. Even a strong resume struggles to surface in that volume, especially for roles that often get filled internally or through referrals before the public pile is touched.</p>