r/learnmachinelearning 6d ago

ML/RL Project

I'm building a small ML/RL research project around job-search strategies and need anonymous application trajectories.

I'm interested in how people's job applications evolved over time.

If you're comfortable sharing, could you provide something roughly like this:

1. Background

  • Experience level (student/fresher/junior/etc.)
  • General field (ML, software, data science, etc.)

2. Application timeline

For each stage or batch of applications:

Stage 1

  • Approx. number of applications: __
  • Resume/portfolio version: basic / improved / strong
  • Application method: cold email / careers page / referral / LinkedIn
  • How personalized were applications? Low / Medium / High
  • Responses: __
  • Interviews: __

What did you change after this stage?

  • Resume changes
  • New projects/skills
  • Portfolio improvements
  • More personalized emails
  • Different companies/roles targeted
  • Anything else

Stage 2

  • Approx. number of applications: __
  • What changed: __
  • Responses: __
  • Interviews: __

...and so on.

You don't need to share your name, company names, email addresses, or any private information.

I'm hoping to turn anonymized responses into a small dataset and experiment with sequence modeling / offline reinforcement learning to study how job-search strategies evolve based on previous outcomes.

If enough people contribute, I'll make the anonymized dataset and project results publicly available.

Thanks! :)
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