Why send resumes to several companies at the same time?

Question

Career in IT

Suppose a person is looking for a job and sends his resume and portfolio to several companies at once. Then he is invited for interviews, and he goes to everyone. It is clear that he will stop at one firm. But there are questions that do not fit together:
- At the interview, you can’t say something like “Wait, I’ll walk again and if I come back” or “Let me think” - they agree right away, either immediately yes or no.
- Well, he sent it to several companies. Let's say in company A - but he got a job in another company B, not having time to reach A. A month later he quit his job with company B, and the vacancy in company A is still relevant. How to be now? Do not go back humiliated at the same time.
On Habré, there are a lot of articles about how programmers got a job, about how they sent resumes to several companies at a time, and how 10 interviews were held per week.
Question:
Why do so many people do this? Why can't you send resumes gradually, first to one, it didn't work out to another?

Answer 1

"- At the interview, you can't say something like "Wait, I'll walk again and if I'll be back" or "Let me think" - they agree right away, either immediately yes or no.
Believe me, you can and should. Recruiters have a practice of telling the applicant that they have more applicants and they will choose (even if there are no other applicants). There is nothing shameful in saying: "You are the first employer who responded to my resume, but I would like to look at the job market", no.
"- Well, he sent it to several companies. Let's say in company A - but he got a job in another company B, not having time to reach A. A month later, he quit company B, and the vacancy in company A is still relevant. How to be now "Don't go back and humiliate yourself at the same time."
You don't get humiliated by trial and error. They came to company A and said, "I took a walk, I realized that your offer is still better."
Yes, recruiters do not like runners from place to place, but if it was once as an exception, there is nothing to worry about.
"Why do many do this? Why can't you send resumes gradually, first to one, it didn't work out to another?"
Imagine the situation with company A, B and C.
You sent a resume to company A, went through the social security cycle (two weeks in total) and say "ok, let me think." Send resume to office B, same cycle, same time period. The same with office B.
Well, office A will find an applicant by this time, and when you already want to work with them, it will be too late.
Multitasking.
Salespeople don't make unicasts on prospectuses, they make a general cast of the offer and then spud up pecking customers. The labor market is similar, only the goods are your services.

Answer 2

>- At the interview, you can’t say something like “Wait, I’ll take a walk again and if I come back” or “Give me a think” - they agree right away, either immediately yes or no. When I was at my first job in a modest regional web studio, I constantly heard the conversations of the authorities that they were waiting for the "final answer" from the specialist that they had been wanting to get for themselves for several months. So stop thinking as if the employer is some kind of king and god, whom you must please and do everything just the way he likes. Walking and choosing a job through interviews is a common practice in which there is nothing criminal.
State? I have yet to meet a single interview for a full-time job or at least a small freelance project where the employer would not ask the question "when can you start working with us." Moreover, as far as I know, in cool mega-corporations you can have an interview in N months, and get a job in six months, and then at will.
+ if the specialist is really worthwhile, then it is quite possible that at the end of the interview it is not the employer who will say the sacred “we will contact you / we will call you”, but the specialist himself.

Answer 3

There's nothing to be done here. Everyone has a different approach to hunting. Some can answer in a month, others the next day, others do not answer if there is no vacancy, the fourth answer if not, the fifth can postpone until a vacancy opens, and even after a year, reply.

Answer 4

This is the market. By your analogy, Coca-Cola should sell cola in January only in the USA, and in February only in Russia, as well as in all countries, have the same marketing and price.