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What the job ads actually say

What thousands of job ads say about the job market, and what it means for your applications. Written from real, live job ads.

Written by Soheil Nasirian, founder of SherpaRSS
How much time does a job search take? I measured a month of mineHow long does it take to find a job? In a month of my AI job search, two thirds of the ads were never for me, a third needed a full read, and 1.4% fit. · 5 min readRead
  1. Can you get a tech job in Sweden without speaking Swedish?Jobs in Sweden for English speakers: 64% of tech job titles on Swedish careers pages are in English, against 13% of other jobs. Where English works. · 6 min readRead
  2. Do tailored resumes actually work? Reframing, yes. Fabrication, never.Does tailoring your resume work? It lifted a job ad's terms covered from 46% to 70%, almost all already true. Where tailoring ends and lying begins. · 5 min readRead
  3. Is AI engineer the new software engineer? What 47,000 engineering job ads sayAI engineer vs software engineer: 1 in 7 engineering job ads has an AI or ML title, three times backend. Software engineer is still more than half. · 5 min readRead
  4. Where are the tech jobs in Europe? London has almost as many as the next four cities togetherTech jobs in Europe by city. On international companies' careers pages, London has almost as many tech ads as Berlin, Paris, Munich and Warsaw together. · 5 min readRead