u/GlobalGrooveArt

Hello Community,

My name's Jakub, I'm 39 years old Polish citizen, currently living and working in the Philippines in Accenture (business consulting / comms). I live and work in Southeast Asia since 2014 (mainly Indonesia), but I never really had a fully remote work. It's been a mix of hospitality, tour&travel and comms (internal comms mostly, especially during last 4 years in Accenture - it gave me quite a lot of global exposure in Internal Comms - drafting global comms campaigns etc).

Since November last year I've been looking for remote job in Internal Comms, Change Comms, Employee Engagement / Branding. I've built the whole system with Claude to help me scan the job openings and potential companies to apply to daily, I don't mass-send CVs - I aim to apply to 3-5 job ads daily, and I always tailor each CV to the Job Description so I pass the ATS. I also reach out daily to global hiring recruiters, EOR recruiters working for remote-first companies, talent sourcers, acquisition specialists, Accenture alumnis, Internal Comms practitionners etc - to build my network. Quite few of these people told me that I got great professional profile - yet nothing has ever come up. I face nothing but consistent rejections.

Question is: what am I doing wrong? I feel like I keep on hitting my head against the wall. I know geography might play a role here (I'm a EU citizen, based in APAC, and I don't really want to go back to Europe). I even stopped applying to remote roles marked as "US", as I think I'm being automatically rejected because of my location / citizenship.

I'm in a huge need of any ideas or advice coming from fresh pair of eyes looking at my situation. Everything and anything is much appreciated.

Hello Community,

My name's Jakub, I'm 39 years old Polish citizen, currently living and working in the Philippines in Accenture (business consulting / comms). I live and work in Southeast Asia since 2014 (mainly Indonesia), but I never really had a fully remote work. It's been a mix of hospitality, tour&travel and comms (internal comms mostly, especially during last 4 years in Accenture - it gave me quite a lot of global exposure in Internal Comms - drafting global comms campaigns etc).

Since November last year I've been looking for remote job in Internal Comms, Change Comms, Employee Engagement / Branding. I've built the whole system with Claude to help me scan the job openings and potential companies to apply to daily, I don't mass-send CVs - I aim to apply to 3-5 job ads daily, and I always tailor each CV to the Job Description so I pass the ATS. I also reach out daily to global hiring recruiters, EOR recruiters working for remote-first companies, talent sourcers, acquisition specialists, Accenture alumnis, Internal Comms practitionners etc - to build my network. Quite few of these people told me that I got great professional profile - yet nothing has ever come up. I face nothing but consistent rejections.

Question is: what am I doing wrong? I feel like I keep on hitting my head against the wall. I know geography might play a role here (I'm a EU citizen, based in APAC, and I don't really want to go back to Europe). I even stopped applying to remote roles marked as "US", as I think I'm being automatically rejected because of my location / citizenship.

Has anyone on the hiring side seen candidates with strong IC profiles get filtered out purely due to geography?

I'm in a huge need of any ideas or advice coming from fresh pair of eyes looking at my situation. Everything and anything is much appreciated.

Hello Community,

My name's Jakub, I'm 39 years old Polish citizen, currently living and working in the Philippines in Accenture (business consulting / comms). I live and work in Southeast Asia since 2014 (mainly Indonesia), but I never really had a fully remote work. It's been a mix of hospitality, tour&travel and comms (internal comms mostly, especially during last 4 years in Accenture - it gave me quite a lot of global exposure in Internal Comms - drafting global comms campaigns etc).

Since November last year I've been looking for remote job in Internal Comms, Change Comms, Employee Engagement / Branding. I've built the whole system with Claude to help me scan the job openings and potential companies to apply to daily, I don't mass-send CVs - I aim to apply to 3-5 job ads daily, and I always tailor each CV to the Job Description so I pass the ATS. I also reach out daily to global hiring recruiters, EOR recruiters working for remote-first companies, talent sourcers, acquisition specialists, Accenture alumnis, Internal Comms practitionners etc - to build my network. Quite few of these people told me that I got great professional profile - yet nothing has ever come up. I face nothing but consistent rejections.

Question is: what am I doing wrong? I feel like I keep on hitting my head against the wall. I know geography might play a role here (I'm a EU citizen, based in APAC, and I don't really want to go back to Europe). I even stopped applying to remote roles marked as "US", as I think I'm being automatically rejected because of my location / citizenship.

I'm in a huge need of any ideas or advice coming from fresh pair of eyes looking at my situation. Everything and anything is much appreciated.