👋 Hello Friends!

Welcome to Never Finished — the newsletter for professionals who are done applying to 200+ jobs and getting ghosted.

Each week, I share 3 short ideas to help you land interviews on demand — no résumé roulette required.

Let’s get you moving again.

You didn’t mess anything up.

There was no big moment.
No email.
No meeting.

You kept doing your job.
You showed up.
You delivered.

Then one day, job searching felt… strange.

Replies came slower.
Roles felt harder to fit.
Interviews you once got stopped coming.

You didn’t get worse.

The market changed.
And it didn’t tap you on the shoulder first.

Most people believe this:

“If I’ve done this work before, I’ll be considered.”

That used to work.

Today, hiring works differently.

People aren’t asking,
“Can this person do the job?”

They’re asking,
“Does this person already look right for it?”

That small shift changes everything.

Because when tools change,
jobs don’t stay wide.

They get narrow.

New tools show up.
New titles appear.
And what used to be “extra” becomes “expected.”

So experience that once felt strong
starts to feel hard to explain.

Not bad.
Not weak.

Just a little off from what they want right now.

When this starts happening, most people react the same way.

They try to fix themselves.

They sign up for courses.
They chase new tools.
They add more lines to the résumé.

It feels like progress.

But nothing really changes.

Because the problem was never,
“I don’t know enough.”

The problem was,
“They don’t see me fitting fast enough.”

I saw this with a senior operations lead I worked with last year.

She had done the work.
Led teams.
Hit numbers.

But interviews stopped.

So she did what most smart people do.

She added more.

More skills.
More keywords.
More “just in case.”

Still nothing.

Then we tried something uncomfortable.

We took things away.

She stopped trying to show everything she had done.
And started showing one thing she could fix right now.

One clear problem.
One clear reason to hire her.

Same career.
Same experience.

Different signal.

Interviews came back.

Not because she learned faster.
But because she was easier to place.

And you can do the same thing.

This is what she followed.
Step by step.

You don’t need to change careers.
You don’t need to start over.

You just need to do these three things.

Forget job titles for a moment.

Every job exists because something hurts.

Things are slow.
Things cost too much.
Things break.
Things don’t scale.

🧠 Try this:
Open 5 job posts for the same role.
Circle the same problem you see again and again.

That problem matters more than the tool list.

Example:
If multiple roles mention things like:

Then the real problem is this:

👉 Teams are making decisions with messy, unreliable data.

That’s the job.
Not the title.

You are not telling your whole story.

You are showing one moment where you solved that exact pain.

🧠 Try this:
Finish this sentence:

“They should hire me because I’ve already fixed ___.”

Example:
“They should hire me because I replaced manual reporting with automated dashboards and cut decision time by 40%.”

Now look at your résumé.

If a bullet doesn’t support that sentence—
cut it.

That’s what she did.

Tools change.
Results stay.

Hiring teams don’t care what system you used first.
They care what changed because of you.

🧠 Try this:
Rewrite one line from your résumé.
Remove tool names.
Keep the outcome.

Example:

“Replaced fragmented spreadsheets with a single source of truth, saving leadership 8–10 hours per week.”

If a line works without naming tools —
it’s strong enough to carry you forward

Hiring moves fast.
People don’t have time to decode you.

When your work is easy to explain,
you feel safer to choose.

That’s what this whole shift is about.

Don’t change everything.

Just do this today:

Pick one role you want.
Run it through the three steps.
Update one line using numbers.

That’s enough to start.

Reply and tell me:
What role are you trying to line up right now?

And if this felt like it described you,
send it to one person who’s been saying:

“Something feels off, but I don’t know what.”

Keeping going, You are Never Finished.

— Ajay