professional job seeker chronicles

It’s been 100+ years in the field (give or take, depending on the timezone of ats bots), and I think it’s time to document the art of not getting hired.

ghosts of interviews past

I’ve done 5 interviews recently.
All 5 started with the classic “we’re really impressed by your background” and ended with… nothing.
No email. No rejection. Just pure silence.

Some call it ghosting. i call it ats blackhole, my application never survived the ai review.

requirements from another timeline

Then there’s the job posts:
Asking for 10 years of experience in a tool that launched 5 years ago.
makes sense. I was probably supposed to invent it in middle school.

if you don’t meet that requirement, don’t worry: they’ll also want you to know every framework released yesterday, preferably production-ready, preferably for free.

my actual background

Just in case anyone forgot: I actually can do things. Young, ungraduated, overqualified in rejection.
Still building.

lessons learned

• Rejection-Driven Development (RDD) is real
• Interview Farming yields no crops
• CI/CD = continuous interruptions / continuous delays

conclusion

Finding a job in tech right now feels like waiting for a callback that never fires.
Still, i’ll keep scaling applications, even if the only thing i’m deploying is another application form.

Until then: Professional Job Seeker, full-time.

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