PayPal Layoff Survivor Sent 6,000 Job Applications to Land a Role

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    "title": "PayPal Layoff Survivor Sent 6,000 Job Applications to Land a Role - News Anyway",
    "excerpt": "John Huân Vũ sent more than 6,000 job applications over 16 months before a former colleague’s advocacy finally broke through, landing him a senior consultant position at Visa and ending one of the most gruelling job searches produced by the post-pandemic labour market. Vũ had spent a decade at PayPal before being laid off in July 2024. The redundancy landed at a difficult moment for the company. In January 2024, PayPal had announced a workforce reduction affecting approximately 9% of its global staff, with then-chief executive Alex Chriss citing a need to ‘drive more focus and efficiency, deploy automation, and consolidate technology,’ according to a KFOX TV report . Vũ’s own departure came several months after that initial wave. After about a week to process the shock, Vũ began applying in earnest. He tracked every application in a spreadsheet: more than 6,000 job applications across over 2,000 companies, all logged across 16 months. He used job boards including LinkedIn and HiringCafe, and leaned on autofill tools to keep pace. His threshold: if he felt at least 50% qualified, he applied. On his busiest single day, 17 August 2025, he submitted 88 applications . The market had shifted sharply since his last job search, more than a decade earlier. AI-conducted interviews had become routine. Some postings vanished within 48 hours or after the first few hundred applications...",
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    "article_sentence": "In January 2024, PayPal had announced a workforce reduction affecting approximately 9% of its global staff, with then-chief executive Alex Chriss citing a need to ‘drive more focus and efficiency, deploy automation, and consolidate technology,’ according to a KFOX TV report ."
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