FI-2026-000390SolvedCareer

Made redundant after eleven years and cannot get past application screening

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FI-2026-000390
Category
Career
Published
Sep 29, 2026
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The problem

Two hundred applications, four responses. My experience is deep but all with one employer.

What we told them

Eleven years in one place reads as one data point to an automated screen, however strong the experience. Break the tenure into the distinct roles you actually held, each with its own dates, scope and outcomes — you are not inventing anything, you are making a real career legible. Then stop applying cold: at eleven years of experience your network is the channel that works, and a referral skips the screen entirely. Four responses from two hundred is a channel problem, not a you problem.

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