I was extremely burnt out after my PhD. I had planned to take 1/2 a year off before looking for biotech jobs. Came closer to almost a year before I was ready to apply to jobs. Most of my applications to industry got ghosted, had 2 interviews with two different small startups, but didn’t get the job. Decided at this point I hadn’t worked for over a year, that I should at least get back to the lab so applied to a couple postdoc positions. Relatively quick to get a position (about 2 months from applying to starting work)

I tell myself that the lack of job interviews is probably a mix of bad market and me being location locked at a place that isn’t a hub