Do You Really Need To Apply For 200 Jobs To Get A New Opportunity?

Is the job market really that tough?

I’ve seen a few statistics recently related to expected success rates when seeking a new opportunity, including:

“You should be getting an interview from 5-10% of your applications” (Bonnie Dilber)

“The average interview to offer ratio is 4.8 to 1” (A Job Thing)

When you work that backwards it means that in order to get the 5 interviews that might result i…