I was in the same position and the way I got a job is by significantly improving the emotional intelligence of my applications. Meaning. Craft your CV and your linkedin to the letter. Make it super minimal, focus on past 5 years, because at this hour, details dont matter, social bonds do.
Everyone has a boss including the person who reads your application and it cant be rejected if you seem to be a perfect match socially speaking.
Emotional intelligence is the crack in the wall. All they want. They could not care more about how good you trully are providing they even know what a good dev is.
Play the social game. Buy new clothes that convey what they want you to convey. Study profile pictures and craft a great one. Study their mindset.
Aim for quality, not quantity.
Finally, you can do QA? Congratulation, now you've been a QA for the last 5 years. Do what you need to do. Fuck em. After all, you've contributed and now youre dumped. Employee is not viable. A new director arrives and decides your career is over when you, as a nerd, created his own fucking job. So do it with a fuck em mindset. Beat them as their own game. And let it be known that employee is not viable (without unions?).
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I was in the same position and the way I got a job is by significantly improving the emotional intelligence of my applications. Meaning. Craft your CV and your linkedin to the letter. Make it super minimal, focus on past 5 years, because at this hour, details dont matter, social bonds do.
Everyone has a boss including the person who reads your application and it cant be rejected if you seem to be a perfect match socially speaking.
Emotional intelligence is the crack in the wall. All they want. They could not care more about how good you trully are providing they even know what a good dev is.
Play the social game. Buy new clothes that convey what they want you to convey. Study profile pictures and craft a great one. Study their mindset.
Aim for quality, not quantity.
Finally, you can do QA? Congratulation, now you've been a QA for the last 5 years. Do what you need to do. Fuck em. After all, you've contributed and now youre dumped. Employee is not viable. A new director arrives and decides your career is over when you, as a nerd, created his own fucking job. So do it with a fuck em mindset. Beat them as their own game. And let it be known that employee is not viable (without unions?).
Good luck.
Would you mind sharing your LinkedIn profile and/or a link to your cv?
In my bio