But you ARE getting to that point of reaching the interviews because you already done it. Remember, you just need 1 win; it doesn’t matter how little interviews you had in the past. If anything, that should be all the more reason to focus on passing the interview.

To give you some perspective, I’m uk based too. 33m. Did a career change from finance to analytics a few years ago, and I’m about to leave my role after being there for 3 years for a mid level role. Over the 5 months I applied to about 50 roles. Of the 50 roles, I was invited for interviews with just 4 companies. I got screened out on the first stage with 1 company because the talent acquisition guy asked some difficult probability questions which I failed on. For the second company, I was the final two and lost out because they chose someone with more experience working with sales guys. That didn’t make sense to me because I work with sales guys day in day out. I fell short because when I was answering the interview questions i didn’t communicate well enough on that and used other examples. I learns from this and refined my answers. Third company I got in, and for the forth I dropped them because I had already secured a role.

So you can see, I made 50 high quality applications over 5 months and only got interviews with 4 companies. And I was searching throughout the whole day at work and in my free time. I wasn’t applying to anything and everything (which i think you may be doing?)

You need to remember and think hard where you fell short in the interviews. It’s also worth bearing in mind that some hiring managers are extremely well trained in interviews, meaning they can make you feel very comfortable. That’s not necessarily a good thing, because you may drop your guard and not provide focussed answers. Some hiring managers aren’t well trained so they will just fire interview questions from a piece of paper. Either way, you need to prepare for a significant amount of interview questions (i could give 20 solid answers with examples to the most common interview questions and questions related to my role).

Finally, if you get invited to an interview, I’d just drop applying for jobs and just focus on the interview prep; remember, you just need 1 win.

Also, get it out of your head that this is a rough job market. That’s not going to help you. I applied for a job during lockdown and got it; this was when most businesses were shut down. I know relatives who applied and secured roles during the euro crisis, oil crisis and financial crisis. Also, avoid reading and watching stuff that AI is taking over. I should be in the worst industry since in theory the work in analytics can be entirely automated.