hiring managers more often than not either respond with some variety of "Oh yeah, I did that too and it was amazing" or "Oh man that sounds so great, I'm jealou

hiring managers more often than not either respond with some variety of "Oh yeah, I did that too and it was amazing" or "Oh man that sounds so great, I'm jealous." This only works if you get to even talk to a hiring manager. Most applications are filtered by automatic systems. Many of those will penalize or discard your application for gaps. The same AI bots we built when we were employed are now being used against us.