Job Searching in 2025
What to expect when you haven’t job-searched in years. If you haven’t looked for a job in a long time, the market you remember doesn’t exist anymore. The landscape shifted: more competition, slower hiring, bigger applicant pools, and a surprising amount of manual resume screening despite all the AI hype. People who treat the 2025 job search like it’s still 2015 get blindsided. This guide is direct on purpose. Not inspirational. Not sugar-coated. If you understand the reality upfront, you’ll avoid months of unnecessary frustration. 1. If you’re planning to take a 6–8 week break before job hunting… think again. A lot of people say, “I’m going to decompress for a couple months, then look.” Here’s the catch: It now commonly takes 5–10 months to land a role. Not always. But enough cases that you need to assume it. If you take two months off before you even start applying, you’ve just added two months to an already long search. The new rule is simple: Start the proc...