A few months ago, I was doing what most people do. Open LinkedIn → search jobs → apply. Repeat. Some days I would apply to 20–30 jobs. And at the end of the week? Nothing. No replies. No interviews. Just silence. The part that frustrated me the most It wasn’t just the rejections. It was not knowing why . Was my resume bad? Was I applying to the wrong roles? Was the market just bad? When you don’t get feedback, you start guessing. And most of the time, you guess wrong. What I changed At some point, I stopped. Not completely — but I stopped applying blindly. Instead of focusing on quantity, I tried something different: I read the job description properly I compared it with my resume I noticed what was missing I tweaked my resume for that specific role It felt slower. Almost like I was doing less work . But something interesting happened. The shift I didn’t suddenly start getting 10 interviews. But I started getting responses .…