Don’t know if it’s just me, but lately ever since the start of the new year, whenever I’ve applied to roles I’ve only been getting silence. Getting rejected is one thing, at least they had the courtesy to get back to me, even if it was copy/paste. But lately, I’ll send a cv, get the automatic “we received your application” email and then………nothing. At first I didn’t think much of it but considering how many times I’ve already been hitting the apply button since the start of the year, I’m suspecting something funny is going on. Has anyone else been in this situation?

This is a bit of a weird question because its very subjective to the state of the industry and localised to a company. However I see a good few jobs here and there offering 40k plus (sometimes for juniors) for mid ranged talent. I know there isnt much money in games compared to the normal software engineering side of things where I am looking but seeing a junior/graduate jobs going for 80k+ which feels fake to me as a working class person 🤣. I was told to accept minimum wage for a junior position (Which is approx 24/25k in the UK) and be happy with it. So im just curious what everyone else thinks. I see a lot of companies ask for what your desired annual income is in their application and I almost always put 24k. Is this shooting myself in the foot with unconfidence? I always thought less money = better chance of being hired because companies dont like spending money.

On a scale of 1-5 1 being low, 5 being the highest.. How confident are you within your job search journey currently, and what support do you feel you need? Please add a comment

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