1. Work on two meaningful projects using the tech you want a job in. Update your resume with the work that was done, without embellishment.
2. Open your profile on LinkedIn. Close it when you get five interviews. Learn from each failing interview.
Highly skilled engineers aren't being fought over anymore. It's become a buyer's market.
If you lose your job, you might be looking for a new one for a long time.
I can’t put my finger on it, but I’ve observed a trend where new hires have massively fraudulent experience on their resumes. Likewise an engineer who passed leetcode rounds suddenly doesn’t know what a variable is.
At the very least, we have a problem with people using AI to game the job interview process.
These days your personal network matters most. If you don’t have one start working on one. Your resume might never see human eyes otherwise. Nobody cares about your GitHub sadly.