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Fortune
Orianna Rosa Royle

For every 10 jobs, there are 2,539 applicants—and a top hiring platform’s CEO has a solution to the job hunt hell: 'Don't just apply to OpenAI’

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You’re not imagining it. Getting a job right now really is harder than it used to be. Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait has crunched the numbers on the job market, and they’re brutal: For every 10 open roles on his hiring platform alone, there are 2,539 applicants fighting over them.

His advice for standing a chance? Stop applying to the companies everyone’s heard of.

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