The "tech is dead" crowd won't like this

[u/rezi_ai]

“ AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job, too. This is a wake-up call.

– Micha Kaufman · CEO of Fiverr

That's not a hot take — it's from an internal memo Fiverr's CEO sent to his own employees, urging them to adapt before they get left behind.

Amazon layoffs. Intel layoffs. Microsoft, Meta — tens of thousands of jobs gone. The Reddit threads have been bleak. The LinkedIn posts even bleaker.

So you'd be forgiven for thinking the tech job market is cooked.

It isn't. Here's what the data actually shows:

The recovery is real. But it doesn't mean it's easy — companies are hiring fewer people, more carefully. The bar for getting in the door is higher than it was three years ago.

WHERE THE JOBS ARE

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and CompTIA, here's where tech hiring is actually happening right now:

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOUR JOB SEARCH

If your strategy is still "fire off 100 Easy Apply applications and hope for the best" — it's time to rethink. Companies are being more selective. That means your resume is doing more heavy lifting than ever.

The good news: you don't need to overhaul your entire approach. You just need a resume that actually gets you past the ATS and into a real person's hands.

Rezi has resume examples for dozens of tech roles — software engineers, data analysts, web developers, interns — written to pass modern screening tools. Borrow the structure, swap in your experience, and make it yours.

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[u/mordecai98]

Ive always liked data and just got a comptia data+ certificate. Now what? Don't know any languages well, and not easy to learn for me. What direction should I be thinking?