Fair enough. For me, it's a celebration of completing the job search. The benefit for the group is to show there is a lot of rejection even in a successful search. Seeing other people's reminded me of that.

PreSales is an annoying description that doesn't describe the role. It's also known as "Technical Sales", "Sales Engineering" or "Solutions Consulting". It boils down to supporting the sales team with product demonstrations, technical knowledge, and questionnaires, typically in B2B software. If you've ever seen "A hologram for the king", it's the people on Tom Hank's team that sit in the tent and prepare the hologram.

This depends mostly on the industry, role, economic cycle and seniority. Having said that, this is my approach. Perhaps there is something useful in there for you:

I believe in focused high quality job searching. Have a great standard CV, have it checked by friends or even former colleagues to be as good as possible. Then gather a number of job vacancies, keep adding to the list as time goes by. From there mark those for how well you fit their requirements, what their glassdoor score is, and how well they fit your desires (the resulting Excel graph is the source for this graph). Only then start applying to the top scorers of your list. Personalise each CV, that is highlighting and adding relevant experience, using the job description's language and key words, and something visual (bare minimum, using the company's brand colours for headers). Always make sure to ask for a salary range the first time you talk to a human, this will save time and disappointment.

It's close, but I don't think it's the right lesson here.

I would recommend to include checking the websites of all companies you know in your industry/expertise for job offers. But don't rely on it, this pool is too small. There was only a single hit for me out of about 30 companies, it just turned out to be a good hit!

For extra info, the one that got me the CxO interview was recruiter sourced, and the one I declined (because I now had an offer) was from a LinkedIn search.

Yeah, that's not very clear, fair enough.

The whole first column is vacancies/job descriptions I liked. The direct one I found on the company's website. I basically went through all companies with decent glassdoor scores that I knew of in the industry. Most of them didn't have a suitable vacancy for me, and the one did.

Recruiters mostly reached out to me (I reached out to some I've used previously, but they didn't have any vacancies either).

LinkedIn I checked by searching their job postings for terms like "PreSales manager" and a few variations.

Source: My job applications in 2022, specifically the Excel sheet I tracked my various job application in.

Tools: SankeyMATIC for the diagram, PowerPoint for the successful application route and background.

And this time posted on a Monday.

Hilarious in a good way.

What happened in 2011? I feel the most interesting data point is missing.

Interesting graph, but hard to interpret. Any guidance on interpretation would be useful.

Where are farm lands shrinking?

Since we're still burning down rainforest for farmland somewhere else must be losing farmland even faster.