I used to think getting a job was mostly about skills.

Learn more.

Build projects.

Improve your portfolio.

Apply everywhere.

Simple.

Then I moved to another country, started university, and began applying seriously.

I sent application after application and noticed something weird:

Some rejections came almost instantly.

Some companies never replied.

Some applications felt like they disappeared into a black hole.

At first I blamed experience.

Then my projects.

Then my English.

Eventually I discovered something I should’ve understood much earlier:

A lot of resumes are filtered before humans even see them.

I started digging into ATS systems, resume structure, keywords, and job descriptions.

What surprised me most:

Many people don’t actually have a skills problem.

They have a positioning problem.

Two candidates can have similar experience, but one gets interviews while the other gets ignored.

That became an obsession for me.

So I started building a small experiment around this problem — an AI tool that analyzes and improves resumes based on specific roles.

Not because “AI SaaS” sounded cool.

Because I personally needed it.

Still validating.

Still learning.

Still figuring things out.

Curious:

Have you ever discovered that the real problem wasn’t what you originally thought?