Well I have recently found myself unemployed after mass layoffs at my company. Perhaps January isn't the best month, but it doesn't look overly positive in the

Well I have recently found myself unemployed after mass layoffs at my company. Perhaps January isn't the best month, but it doesn't look overly positive in the US job market right now. I think even a good CV won't help too much because the market itself feels fairly cold. I would say you should try to rely on any network you have. That's what my plan is going to be, although my network in software engineering is considerably smaller than my network in accounting, but I don't see blindly firing resumes as a viable option. So while there is likely room for you to improve your resume, I think the job market itself is likely the bigger culprit here. It's a shame there isn't an effective way on here to connect viable engineers who are talented and clearly care about the quality of their code to land work. Even the work at a yc startup site feels like it falls to the same shortcomings. If I could get a software engineering license similar to my CPA, I think that would be an effective way to quickly establish ability and reduce the hiring friction.