From 350+ Applications and 2 Callbacks to a Focused, High-Impact Job Search that Finally Landed and Offer

I started my job search while wrapping up my senior year at university, looking for full-time roles in computer science and software engineering. I had applied to hundreds of jobs on my own, but nothing seemed to land. Even when I did get a response, the interview turnaround was so short that I didn’t feel prepared to perform well.

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I began applying in August 2023, about seven months before I started with Relentless. By that point, I had sent over 350 applications and received only two callbacks, one of which led to an interview. It was demoralizing, especially coming straight out of university without a highly specialized background. Most of the interviews I did get were for domains I wasn’t deeply experienced in, and because I was spending so much time applying, I couldn’t properly prepare when opportunities did come up.

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I knew Relentless would help me focus more on interview preparation instead of endlessly filling out applications. What I didn’t expect was how much value I would get from seeing how to run a smaller-scale but highly effective job search myself. Watching the process made me realize this is what I should have been doing from the beginning. Relentless was executing it at a scale I never could have managed on my own.

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The resume work was especially impactful. I had strong experience and achievements, but they weren’t presented in a way that could be quickly understood by recruiters or resume screening software. Relentless helped reorganize my resume to surface the most impactful information first, prioritize professional experience over secondary projects, and structure it from a real hiring perspective rather than my own assumptions.

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Another major shift was learning to quantify impact. I initially believed that at my level, skills mattered more than business outcomes. Through this process, I learned that metrics and measurable impact are powerful at every level, and incorporating them significantly strengthened my resume.

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Ultimately, Relentless is for people who know they are capable of succeeding in high-impact, well-paying roles, but are constrained by time. The real value was freeing up that time, accelerating the job search, and helping me reach a role I could have achieved on my own just much faster and more effectively.

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