Hello guys. I posted about a month ago that i’d randomly been made redundant from my comfortable IT job and a month later im still in the same spot. However im super grateful i’ve literally had at least one interview every week since. Its better than mass applying and getting no jobs i guess. My only issue is I dont think blowing 11 interviews is normal and i think anyone else would of at least got one offer :(
Last role was IT Support which isnt the most glamorous but in the background (before my redundancy) i’d been getting my certs and doing home IT projects to hopefully become a cloud engineer / cloud infrastructure engineer. My CV was more geared towards IT Support so i paid some guy on Fiver £20 to fix my Cv and boy did he fix it. After that is when i started getting calls every week for 1st stage interviews and it made me happy for a while but with cloud related roles it was my first time getting used to the technical questions they would ask and at first I was woefully unprepared but with each interview i studied and prepared a little more. I actually Just had my last interview at a royal charted university on friday and i was really excited for it but they again asked me some stuff i wasnt prepared for and now i dont feel like i didnt get that job because of a few trip ups & me forgetting the answers to some technical questions. Im just kinda tired and burnt out. Sitting in front of a computer genuinely trying to study new technology, preparing for a interview i probably wont get and applying for jobs. Then just finding a way to balance the three without jeopardising any of them. Really dont mean to brag but my CV is way better than what i can really communicate in a interview and alot of my IT knowledge feels abit surface lvl but ive learnt so many new things and done so many impressive home lab cloud project ..however i just can’t stick the landing. I dont think fumbling so many genuinely great paying jobs is normal. I feel like giving up but then i look out my window and see the sun and imagine myself missing out on all the summer fun with my friends so i keep going. But im slowly losing steam.