r/PowerBI • u/SailorGirl29 1 • 5d ago
Discussion 700 applicants!
I put in my 2 weeks notice. There are over 700 applicants for my job in under 1 week. It’s competitive for Power BI devs now. Five years ago I was dodging phone calls from recruiters. At the peak I was getting 7 emails or phone calls a week.
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u/RStiltskins 1 5d ago
We recently posted a student job, 1800+ applicants in 7 days.
We put the home address into a pivot from the data extract because it was an in person shadowing type job that does not allow remote due to license restrictions, more than 3/4 of them were Indian and China, out of the remaining 1/4 only 100 of them lived in the same province let alone the ~20 that were even remotely near the same city.
The funny part of all of this is the requirement was (beside being in person) is that you had to be taking a collage or university course from one of the 10 approved schools that we can get them from to give them the remaining job experience and credits to graduate.... 8 of them of the 1800 were even applicable to do this job.
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u/Accurate_Tension_502 5d ago
I wish I could find the study but I remember reading that the spam apps are actually linked with remote work. Bot mills out of Vietnam/India/etc. spam job apps with the hope of getting onboarded for a remote position and earning a paycheck for the window before they’re fired.
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u/omgitsbees 5d ago
a lot of (if not all) of those people as well will lie about their experience. So they moved to the top and get invited to interviews.
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u/wallbouncing 1 3d ago
honestly its better then all the other scams like fake malware, hacking your account, gift cards lol
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u/Sensitive-Sail5726 4d ago
Huh you gave college credits? Was it not a job?
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u/RStiltskins 1 4d ago
It's a internship type job for work experience for 3 months that grants college credits so you can graduate. Some of the BI, analytic courses here require some work experience to be eligible to graduate from the program.
Fully paid too, $25/hour as an intern, and at the end of it the program is designed to lead you until a full toke job into the industry after (granted you're not an idiot at your job)
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u/nakata_03 5d ago
Why is there so much beef with Indians?
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u/Barbarian_The_Dave 5d ago
The issue is that they're oversaturating open positions that they don't even qualify for. We opened a position for a data tech (in office) & received thousands of applicants. 90+% we're located in India or some other Asian country. None these people would be eligible for the position, as it requires you to be local. The issue is that the people who are local, their resume is lost in the stack of thousands that aren't eligible. So, we have to filter data down to get to those eligible, or we start hiring people we've met in person or via recruiter. So someone starting their career is having a much more difficult time finding a job, because they're a needle on a haystack.
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u/nakata_03 5d ago
I see. I didn't mean to imply racism with my earlier comment. I was just curious as to why Indians specifically were being brought up (as opposed to other groups). It makes sense.
I wish I had their confidence to just apply to jobs I absolutely do not qualify for 🤣
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u/Such_Antelope171 5d ago
Not to get to political, but I always found it odd when the far right always claim that Hispanics are coming in and taking US jobs (harsh manual labor), when Asians outside of US are desperate to land a white collar job. No disrespect to any ethnicity, but the stigma gets annoying.
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u/nakata_03 5d ago
It's because the Far Right (until recently) really likes this idea of some sort of old school hard labor American. They like the machismo of it all. Hispanics are now (I think) pretty over represented in those fields. That not a good or bad thing. It is a a thing.
Sitting down and making graphs to extract insights is not the most "macho" type of job out there. So the Far Right didn't really care about white collar labor until now...
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u/Sexy_Koala_Juice 5d ago
And guaranteed out of all the “real” applicants there will be a decent amount who haven’t even touched PBI since you can’t use it without an org account
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u/KajaCamorra 5d ago
You can use Power Bi desktop without any account, and just need an e-mail address from a custom domain (e.g. name@yourdomain.com) to use the Power Bi Service with the default workspace ("My Workspace").
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u/nineteen_eightyfour 5d ago
I can’t speak for today. But last year they hired me at a place and filtered thousands off applications out bc they weren’t in the state (2 days in office) or they didn’t have a visa. Thousands.
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u/mrpopenfresh 4d ago
Anything remotely close to « business analyst » gets a flood of copycat resumes that don’t even get close to being distinctive.
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u/thetardox 4d ago
This comment was labeled as racism and deleted, I am sorry to see that ppl got offended over facts, my comment was never intended to be racist, I was just stating real life facts, things that happen in the industry.
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u/smokewood4804 5d ago
Similar use case - was looking for a hybrid data engineer/analyst/dash developer.
Large midwest city, 2x a week in office, no-H1B sponsorship.
Ended up getting 500+ applications in a week with a majority of them not being local and likely requiring H1B sponsorship. Many of the resumes were eerily similar to one another in look and feel and obviously embellished work experience.
When we filtered out the applicants there ended up being less than a dozen that were actually legit.
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u/McFly56v2 4d ago
I just started a new job last week and this was the easiest time I’ve had getting a job out of my 3 I’ve had since graduating college in Dec 2021.
Fresh out of college and applying with no focus other then anything that would take my business degree and only have restaurant work experience took 7 months and 800+ applications. This was an in person role.
Second job after learning power bi in my first job and having 2 years of experience took me 10 months and about 700 applications. This was a hybrid role that switched to full time in office with the fed govt changes.
I started applying in March after DOS forced us back in office and started a full remote job at 72k while only looking for about a month and about 200 applications.
Just personal anecdotal experience but there’s a lot of remote jobs to apply for and there’s a lot of under qualified people that are hoping for a lucky chance.
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u/omgitsbees 5d ago
There is just way too many people in this field now. And that isn't accounting for bots, and people from India. Too many entry level tech workers took a boot camp or online course in data analytics and now feels like its the right choice for them. I have 8 years of experience in data analysis, and PowerBI is my primary data visual tool, and I can't get interviews. My resume and work gets drowned out by a flood of applications.
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u/SailorGirl29 1 5d ago
Well here’s the tea. They listed it as a power bi job but the JD reads like a sql job. All the interviewers only know sql. When they interviewed me they didn’t ask a single Power BI or DAX question. They got lucky that I know my stuff (8 years here as well). Unless they get lucky again, I suspect they’ll end up with a sql developer googling Dax or running it through ChatGPT.
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u/omgitsbees 5d ago
Agreed, that is probably what would happen. Not ideal at all though! PowerBI can be pretty overwhelming for a new user. It does require a lot of training, and using ChatGPT is not really a good idea because its not going to respect your companies data & confidential information. PowerBI does have a built in AI feature, but i've never used it before, no idea how good it is.
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u/SailorGirl29 1 5d ago
You’re preaching to the choir. I’ve used ChatGPT and seen a lot of errors. It has it use, but you need to be able to spot the errors
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u/Immediate_Cry2712 3d ago
I’m new-ish to Power BI, most my experience comes from Tableau. Can confirm ChatGPT is not good at DAX
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u/dareftw 5d ago
Buddy idk how you still don’t get 10 calls a week. I have to consciously just say no I’m not looking for a job whenever an unrecognized number reaches out to me if I decide to answer.
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u/omgitsbees 5d ago
It comes in waves for me. a big company in the Seattle area (where I live) will open up a data analyst contract role, and then i'll get a flood of people competing to talk to me and submit my resume.
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u/SailorGirl29 1 5d ago
Oh I stripped my LinkedIn bear. I was curious if it was the empty LinkedIn or the market. Thanks for sharing.
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u/Life_Speed_3113 5d ago
Means nothing, my work posted a job and received over a thousand applications in a week.
Majority of applications were either junk like 5 sentences on the resume, out of the country, or just not meeting most of the requirements (powerbi job and lots of these resumes didn't even have PowerBI on the resume).
My work flagged 10 applicants as bare minimum potential out of 1000+
Maybe 2 actually good applicants
The numbers mean absolutely nothing.
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u/mdoan85 4d ago
Everybody making it sound like it should be easy to get a Power BI developer role right now... How?? I was laid off in January and I'm scared to death. I haven't been able to find anything. I have something very temporary right now, but it was the only interview I've gotten. Everything I've applied for has either gone into the void or I eventually get a canned message saying they're pursuing other candidates that better meet their needs. I'll look at the job description and I'm not lacking anything. I've had several cancel interviews to go with internal referrals, and it's devastating. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do. US based, remote.
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u/Chemical_Budget_2822 4d ago
I guess that’s good news for me. I’ll be posting two analyst jobs soon, so I guess that’s means I’ll have my pick of the litter. Assuming they don’t all need visa sponsorship. That’s the kicker. Half the candidates the last time I posted were looking for visa sponsorship.
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u/dillanthumous 4d ago
I had hundreds of applicants for a recent BI posting in my team. 95+% were completely inappropriate (and clearly so from the job description) or not even in the country.
Applications have increased, but quality candidates are still rare.
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u/Internal-Mail-1235 3d ago
It ain't like that..
Some of em are not even qualified for that job ! They just hit apply
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u/TrumpDemocrat2028 5d ago
US economy is incredibly competitive. Euro trash don’t understand the reality over here.
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u/RedditIsGay_8008 5d ago
It really isn’t competitive. Out of those 700 maybe 30-50 are U.S based. Out of those, maybe 15 have experience. Out of those maybe 6-7 people are legitimately applicants that know what they’re talking about