What it's like to apply for — and start — a job during the coronavirus pandemic

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What it's like to apply for — and start — a job during the coronavirus pandemic
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Aside from video interviews, candidates should prepare to expect more online screening — and to make more of an effort to get to know co-workers when joining a company remotely.

Finding a job can be a full-time experience: One candidate made 200 applications before landing a role.

"I felt I had earned more from my service than just a clinical dismissal phone call. It all happened so quickly," he said. Lancaster had been with his employer for 17 years. But, later that day, he set to work finding a new job. "Every day I would get up at 5am and read through the automated job listings I'd been sent. On average I received four or five listings. Each listing contained perhaps 15 positions and usually there were just one or two that I could apply to. For the next several hours I would apply for those jobs," Lancaster explained.

Interviewing remotely means it can also be harder to get a sense of what a company's culture is like. But Mike Hudy, chief science officer at recruitment platform Modern Hire, says asking pertinent questions via video call can help.

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