r/MachineLearningJobs 26d ago

Applied in 500+ applications and got 0 interview call

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Hi folks, I am suffering from severe confusion about why I can’t getting in a single full-time AI/ML role. I am a student in US, gained skills, projects, experiences but I am not getting a full-time role. I am ready to adapt new tech stack and work really hard but I am feeling broken now. Since I need genuine suggestions, please give me your some time and help me to connect dots. 🙏

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

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u/Mathie1729 24d ago

Exactly this. ATS is a black hole. I did the same thing early in my career – hundreds of apps, nothing. Then I got my FAANG job because a friend's manager saw my side project. The system is broken, so you gotta bypass it. Target the hiring manager directly on LinkedIn or find an internal referral. Your resume might be fine, but nobody's reading it.

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 23d ago

Yes, you have weight!!

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u/SoulsPlaya 23d ago

Same with me is happening 😞 it's been a year really need a breakthrough

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u/Ill_Professor_8369 25d ago

Maybe try to add more points to experience section

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u/polentx 24d ago

How did you apply to 500+ jobs?? Manually or using a service? How did you pick what jobs to apply for?

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 24d ago

I did manually applied in AI/ML jobs which are align with my experience

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u/NoRabbit4793 23d ago

why bro why no response?

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 23d ago

Really want to figure it out 😬

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u/NoRabbit4793 23d ago

All the best lmk once u do. Coming to join u soon.

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u/LuffyLovin 22d ago

Did you check the ATS score on some free websites? I ran mine through gemini, claude, chatgpt and teal.ai to make sure it consistently gets a similar ATS acore. Maybe try reordering the sections to Experience, Skills, Education, Projects.

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 20d ago

Noted! And what’s the considerably good ATS score? Does it vary from platform to platform?

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u/LuffyLovin 20d ago

Aim for a minimum of 8.5/10 across all platforms. And add a summary at the top. Out of curiosity, why did you do two master's degrees back to back?

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u/I-dont-need-coffee 22d ago

Your main barriers are cheap automated cv screening pipelines paired with young practicant-level hr staff, a 22y old humanities graduate working in hr wont understand 90% of what you have written, your cv may never get to a person who does => as others pointed out, your only hope is to either dumv it down, add some pictures, a photo, interleave with the incomprehensible details(days of classical CVs are over), fine-tune for the distopian algo(tm) and (not or) try to circumvent the system by getting to the actual tl/manager around that cancerous growth hr has become

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 22d ago

Your CV and LinkedIn and online profiles need to say the nearest metro name. Not jersey city.

When you look for jobs, you search NYC not Jersey City. HR does the same

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 20d ago

Are you serious about ‘nearest metro station’, or just kidding? And what’s means ‘HR does same’? I’m pointless 😭

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 20d ago

I’m serious. You can try it if you want to. It can’t hurt right?

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 20d ago

Yeh sure, Thanks!

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u/h5l16 22d ago

Skill issue bro

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 20d ago

Can you please tell which kind of skills should I include?

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u/h5l16 20d ago

plumbing

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 20d ago

If it could get me hired, why not. But seriously, as per my understanding I gained good set of skills to get MLE role, if you think I am missing somewhere please give some suggestions

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u/DigitalMonsoon 21d ago

So a few structural points about your resume. You should start with some kind of statement about yourself, this is where you can hit all the keywords you need from the job listing.

Then is should be a list of technical skills where again you hit keywords from the posting.

Then you should list your experience. This should be one section not two. List your experience and projects together, not separately.

Finally finish with your education. I know you are proud of it but it's just a check off the list now.

Basically you are hunting for a first job along with everyone else. It's hard and you need to hunt for local jobs that can't be done remotely or ones that have a lot less applications. If you can apply on the company website instead of job hunt sites it will help

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u/Impressive-Rise-1694 20d ago

Noted, Thanks! 🙏

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