One year of my wife searching for a job in Vienna, Austria with the Master degree in Applied Economics and 3+ years of relevant experience in Marketing, Technical Writing and Manual Testing [OC]

Posted by ropericpe

18 comments

  1. Uf, two years ago I searched for a job with similar results. I hope she finds something!

  3. You should add a step before “Rejected/Ghosted” that sums up the total number of applications, so there’s no crossing of the flows—kind of like in company profit flow diagrams, where different revenue streams flow into the total revenue.

    Also, sorry for such a rough time with the job search. The job market in Europe really is brutal right now. That said, there’s still no excuse for ghosting—it’s just unprofessional.

  5. Is she in a field where testing and technical writing is being automated by AI?

  7. CRITICAL DATA MISSING: Please provide her German language proficiency.

  8. The more I see data like this, the more I think I got lucky getting a decent job on my 2nd application.

  9. Not in a bad way, but maybe Austria is not the best place to apply for such a job. Germany next door?

  10. Similar background and same results. I’ve grieved my career and settled for interim work and volunteering at this point. I hope that your wife finds better luck.

  11. When the job market freezes up it’s a vicious cycle, because not only are new hires cut, people don’t leave their existing jobs. It’s brutal right now in Europe for junior people. It’s actually still OK for very senior people. Corporates are scared of AI and growth has been low. So nobody wants to spend resources on training young people. It sucks.

  12. Very interesting because my experience and that of my partner in Munich is the complete opposite. Only ghosting for English speaking positions and we both landed a job in German speaking ones

  13. I’ve applied to a couple thousand jobs in about 18 months, slightly to the north of Vienna. Had like 4 second round interviews.

    “Why did you apply to this position” is the most out of touch question

  15. With great interest I look at all of those job-sankey diagrams and am always curious how so many companies ghost their applicants.

    Now I am looking for a Job in Vienna too (Frontend Development, 7 YOE) and cannot confirm this at all. I reached out to around 30 companies with a motivational letter and CV that had posted a job on [karriere.at](http://karriere.at), [jobs.at](http://jobs.at), [devjobs.at](http://devjobs.at),… of which 28 replied. Yes, half of the applications were directly declined, but nearly all of them replied.

    So what’s going on here? Why do so many people experience ghosting in their application process?

  16. I mean she applied to 140 jobs that’s 10 a month, that’s not a lot…

  18. No one wants to work anymore!1!!1!!1??1?!!1one!1!1!1!1!eleven

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