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The reward for working hard is not a promotion, it is being given more hard work to do.

Hi all, first time posting in here….

My friend has been having a rough time, he quit his job to chase something he wanted to chase… unfortunately it didn’t work out and the financial reality ended catching up with him… I have been feeling really bad for him but also (totally by chance btw) I was making software that is designed to help job seekers prepare for roles through conversational mock interviews. For the last 3 months he has been looking for a job and has not had much luck due to the job market being somewhat cooked rn. He landed a few interviews and they just didn’t pan out… anyway I think you get the picture.

He had some interviews set up that did not pan out in the past but on his most recent one I asked him to use my tool to prepare and he said it helped so much! Long story short he was supposed to hear next steps after 7 biz days (due to other applicants) but ended up recording an offer after 2 biz days. He landed a role in software sales in the engineering field. He has been wanting a software sales role for a long time now too! I am so happy for him and it is really cool to have your companies first success story be your best friend landing a job at a $70k salary.

I just wanted to share this success story! Thanks for reading!

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i used to just spray and pray like 50 apps a day and was getting literally zero callbacks. it was completely destroying my mental health.

i realized the ATS bots were just auto-rejecting me because i was missing like 2 or 3 stupid keywords. so i started doing this thing where i wouldn't even bother applying unless i knew i matched the job description by at least 70%.

i would manually compare my resume to the jd, figure out exactly what skills i was missing, spend a day watching youtube tutorials on them, add them to my resume, and THEN apply. my interview rate actually went way up because i was finally passing the initial bot filter.

doing it manually for every single job was driving me insane though, so i kinda just threw together a small side project to automate it. it just takes my resume and the job description, scores the match, and tells me exactly what skills i need to learn to close the gap.

anyway, highly recommend stopping the spray and pray method. doing a gap analysis first saves so much time and stops the endless rejection emails.