It almost certainly isn’t you
The gap between those last two numbers is the entire reason you feel stuck.
Months in, and the applications have stopped meaning anything
You know how this goes now. You’ve refined the CV four times. You’ve had the run of near-misses and the silences that aren’t even rejections. And the number you can face in a day has quietly fallen.
It probably isn’t your CV
By month three most people have a decent CV. What they don’t have is the capacity to rewrite it for every single role — and that is what decides whether it gets read. Tailoring one application honestly takes 20 to 30 minutes. Fifty a week, roughly what it takes to stay competitive, is over twenty hours. Nobody sustains that for months.
Everyone got the same tools you did
The people you’re competing with are rewriting their CV for every role, mirroring the exact vocabulary of the posting. Against that, one good all-purpose CV doesn’t read as weaker. It reads as absent.
The silence is not feedback
It is volume. It says almost nothing about you, and the longer it goes on the harder that is to believe. This is the point where most people start applying to things they don’t want, which makes everything worse.
Someone else carries it from here
- You stop applying. Completely. That is the point
- Typically 120–200 applications a month
- Every one tailored — the thing you no longer have capacity for
- Applied inside the 24–72 hour window where a fresh posting still gets read
- Your spec re-tuned weekly on what’s actually getting responses
- An honest read on your market, including if your targets need widening
- A playbook before every interview, so the ones you get, you convert
- Your evenings back, which by now matters more than it sounds
If your niche is genuinely thin we will tell you inside the first fortnight, with what we are seeing and what we would suggest changing — widening the title range, opening the geography, revisiting a salary floor sitting above the market. We will never quietly pad the count with roles you would not take. After months of silence, the last thing you need is a service pretending things are going well.
Try it once before you commit to anything
£99, around 50 tailored applications, about two weeks. Nothing renews. If it works, the £99 comes off your first month.