This is the number of resumes a small arts nonprofit in NYC received for a current job opening, according to a friend of mine. 900 is the number they received in one day.

I report this not to inspire fear or doom in jobseekers but more as a reminder to applicants that when you apply cold to a job posting, your resume is going in a very very large stack and may never even get looked at, and it’s not because you’re not qualified or the best person for the job.

In a nutshell: use your networks.