May be you should try to know the companies where you want to be hired and adapt your proposal for each of them. For example: - A big company would prefer to p

May be you should try to know the companies where you want to be hired and adapt your proposal for each of them. For example: - A big company would prefer to play safe, no degree, no job (similar to "nobody will be fired for buying IBM"). - A startup has certainly totaly unreasonable expectations (too new in HR...) - Are you assertive/ambitious enough? HR might be suspicious , you know everybody lies during interviews... I have seen CVs proposed by subcontractors that were redacted and look at the current inflation in qualifiers "extraordinary coder" etc...