Here’s a graphical representation of my typical success in any given week of job hunting lately.  It’s really makes quite a bit of sense logically, but I wonder why I bother searching for jobs on Friday.  I suppose it’s so that the week that one perfect job gets posted, I don’t miss it.  Notice how the scale currently goes from bad to worse.

SUNDAY: Rarely any jobs of note posted.  If you see something that’s posted on Craigslist over the weekend, it’s highly likely it’s a scam.

MONDAY: Comparatively, quite a few new jobs are posted on Mondays.  Everyone is back at work after a refreshing weekend and HR is willing to crank out that job posting and figure out a hiring schedule.

TUESDAY: The bread and butter day of job hunting.  You catch everything that was posted late on Monday, and for some reason the highest volume of quality job postings occurs.

WEDNESDAY: It’s no Tuesday, but if you dig around a bit there are some decent new postings out there.

THURSDAY: Everyone is ready for the weekend, and it shows.  Thursday is the day I usually do my rundown of the long list of corporate sites I check for new postings.

FRIDAY: Might as well be the weekend.  I don’t think I’ve found a job to apply for on a Friday in weeks.

SATURDAY: Like Sunday, only worse.  No one is thinking about going back to work on Monday on Saturday.

Now to put that in some more perspective of job hunting in the last several months, here’s where things currently stand:

It’s not pretty out there right now.  There weren’t a ton of openings out there in January, but there sure were many more than there are now.  To put numbers to the graph, I’d put “okay” at 4-5 good jobs to apply for on the peak day of the week, “bad” currently consists of 2 or maybe 3 jobs to apply for on the best day of the week, with “worse” coming in around the 1 to 0 mark.

For some reason, 2nd-grade level graphs made in paint (this one is dumbed down in Photoshop because I don’t have paint) really have an endearing value to them.