If you can take the time to really look at job descriptions and look at all these different jobs out there and pick a few a week or one a day, two a day, whatever, that you're like, I truly have read this from top to bottom. I feel very comfortable that I can do this if hired or if I started tomorrow and I feel like my resume has the ammunition to be a good candidate. Those are the ones that I would apply to instead of wasting your time trying to just shotgun it where you just literally shotgun your resume to as many positions as possible. That's not going to get you anywhere, in my professional opinion. I have seen success, okay? I have seen success where someone applies to five jobs a week. Monday through Friday, you apply to one job every single day. But it comes with an add-on. Not only are you just applying and forgetting it, you're applying it, but then you're doing the network side of it. You're going out on LinkedIn. You're going out and you're reaching out and you're trying to see, okay, what connections can I make? Or what connections do I already have that will help me, get me one step closer to potentially getting an interview for this job? So it's a combination. So you don't just apply and you're done. But I've seen so much more success doing it that way than just shotgunning two, three hundred freaking resumes out there to two to three hundred different positions in a month and then just wait and see what happens. That's just not going to work.

[00:06:39] Exactly. You have the skills to build, new skills to do the job. What helped me during that time was to reach out to people on LinkedIn. I used to send a lot of cold messages to people asking them about their transitions asking them for a call asking them to refer me. And I must have applied to over 200 positions and I ended up with three interviews. [00:07:03] Out of which ThoughtWorks was the only position that I ended up receiving an offer for. But all, the three interviews that I received were through reference. That's another thing that academics have no idea about that in industry things happen or you can get an interview through referrals and you can reach out to people and ask them for referrals.