kaylarudbek

So far, two rejections out of about 10+ resumes out. Apparently across all fields there’s something like a .03% response rate (not sure if that’s positive response only).

I’m running back-of-envelope calculations in my head; assuming there are 60,000 people worldwide who have a certain qualification that I hold, and 10% of us looking to change jobs right now, that’s 6,000 people I’m competing with. Fewer than that actually as there are technical qualifications as well (biotech versus electrical engineering/computer science) so assume that the biotech won’t be filled by the computer people and vice versa. So about 3,000 competitors max for a given job that requires this certain qualification. So 3000/40 weeks means I should be sending out 75?!? applications per week if I want a new job by the end of the year. (cut this down by a factor of 10, state unemployment generally requires 3 applications per week and since I am still working I can afford to be picky).

I would prefer to do something that’s a bit different from what I currently do (I would love to try large-scale patent analysis aka patent landscaping, or patent litigation) although with my current age and experience, I’m not sure if I can find a job doing that.

I think that my dream job would be teaching intellectual property law to non-lawyers but that’s a very tough gig to get into.