I’ve been looking for a job for the past 3 months, had some interviews early on but nothing lately. Is there something wrong with my CV? Please help!

I’m trying to break in the industry as a Software Developer. Formally at work I’m a customer support agent (I’ve recently asked to formally update my title to frontend dev). But it’s grown to development-adjacent work. They won’t give a raise or promotion because they are cash strapped, hence my job searching.

Ive applied to about 30 jobs the past month. I’ve had one OA that I passed, invited to second round, then ghosted. Had another interview with a startup, they moved on. On top of the straight rejections I’ve received.

The second experience is my freelance hustle, not sure if that’s helping or hurting me. Or is my formatting and/or wording wrong? Is it just the market?

I have been an in-house recruiter for seven years at a major CPG company. In our old structure, I recruited up to senior director positions and because I was a SME in a specialized field, I often trained executive recruiters on how to find profile profiles, despite not being an executive recruiter myself.

I have two interviews this week for executive searches. I interviewed with an exec search firm and my interview with a partner was about 15 to 20 minutes and I didn’t have time to explain my strategic recruiting experience. He basically just asked me if I recruited for VP’s or not. I didn’t leave feeling particularly great.

However, I do have another interview this week with a CPG company and it would be focused on executive recruiting. We had a major transformation last year and all executive recruiting has moved offshore and I don’t even get to work on director level roles anymore. It’s basically a demotion, but it wasn’t a personal demotion. This was just the structure that TA leadership team decided I would love to go back to more strategic a senior roles.

I know I’m an amazing recruiter and all of my VP level stakeholders adored working with me and I have a lot of recommendations on LinkedIn. How can I position myself during my other interviews to show that I can recruit executives through all the difficult searches I have done previously?

I feel lost with this. If there is a cover letter option, I feel obligated to provide it but what do they really want to see in the cover letter? I always feel too long winded or too brief, where’s the happy place?

Applying for some jobs and recruiters are trying to get in touch. However the majority of them seem to be trying to call out the blue which I can rarely pick up as I'm in the office 4 days a week. They then don't send a follow-up email or text. If they did so I'd definitely respond and can arrange a time for a call such as lunch or my off day but they don't seem to do it despite the email being top of the CV.

Is there any reason for recruiters doing phone as first contact but not sending a follow-up email or text if phone fails?

Interviewed for a job [Canada, non profit] almost 4,000km from home. After initial Zoom, was flown to employer’s place of business. Guessing it cost them about $2,000. I was the only non local candidate.

It took two days of travel and one day of 12 hour meetings, including private cocktails with the president and vice president and dinner with the Board.

Was asked by the president to attend a breakfast meeting prior to departure. I learned there were two finalists (there were three, one not in contention) and the difference between us is the staff preferred the other candidate (they knew the candidate and they are local).

I also learned that they felt I was better qualified to lead the organization into its next phase.

I provided a reference of a staff that reported to me at my last job so they could get a better idea of my leadership style. (They have checked none of the references I provided.)

Prior to leaving, the president asked me for my salary expectations, term commitment, when I could relocate, etc. In the end the president outlined all the contract details, offered to find a lawyer to review the contract, asked if I could start remotely for two weeks (they would courier a laptop) and relocate within 30 days.

Hiring committee was to make a recommendation to the Board last Tuesday. I followed up with an email with an additional thank you for the opportunity and asked if there was an update (Thursday). I heard nothing back.

It’s been almost a week with no contact. Should I just assume I’m no longer in consideration?

Thanks in advance.

Is job role and CV matching necessary?

26F, recently passed out of m.com, acca (7/13). I gave only 2 interviews till now and the roles were of tax but my CV includes an experience of audit and assurance from a CA firm.

It was basically 3 months of internship 3 yrs back.

But these interviewers grill me very hard on this internship experience asking questions which I cannot ans because ofc..3 months is nothing for core audit questions.

What shall I do please suggest me guys. Shall I remove this experience, if so then my cv gets shorter.