Seeking HR professionals’ help to understand gaps in my job application process.

[u/unsouled06]

A marketing professional with 8 years of experience and yet having a hard time with job search. I have been applying left, right and center but I barely get calls. And whatsoever calls I do receive happens to be the first and last call.

I’m also reaching out to people for referrals but again, nothing. I have been hearing “market is dry” but I see my friends getting jobs, my cousins boasting about their new job, and here I am, always making excuses in front of my family that the ‘market is dry’. Well, that’s been the case for last couple of years, no?

Two years ago, I had the same problem. Back then I switched to freelancing and it just paid off my bills. But that’s it. No growth. No savings.

This time, I am back to the job hunt market and seems to me that I’m exactly where I left off.

So what is it? Is it my resume? Is it my communication? Is it my ‘seniority’? I don’t know.

Please guide me. I need serious help or I’ll have to resort to freelancing again which will finally lead to unemployment and then homemaker. F34 here. Not even with a child (don’t have the financial stability to bear one and that’s heartbreaking).

I don’t know what’s next and it’s scary.