{"id":35243,"date":"2026-05-26T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35243"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:41:14","slug":"job-hunting-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/26\/job-hunting-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Hunting 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s the job hunt going, you might ask?  Well, as I mentioned, I got two <em>No<\/em> buttons whilst on vacation and one right after I got home.<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, get a <em><b>HOT HOT HOT<\/em><\/b> lead while on vacation.  How hot?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mastercardsdetemails.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mastercardsdetvoicemail.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mastercardsdettext.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I had some recruiter I&#8217;d never heard of reach out to me last Tuesday with four emails (with different subject lines), two phone calls, and a text message in a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seems legit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nothing seems legit in the whole process these days, ainna?  You <strike>scream<\/strike> try to explain your value to an indifferent void, you get a couple of screener interviews and wonder if they&#8217;re just doing it so that they can say, &#8220;Nah, we need an H1B,&#8221; and then you do it again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>So, onto tomorrow.  Which is today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xN3hbJG2tc?si=T8bLByvPTumA69uM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the philosopher said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s the job hunt going, you might ask? Well, as I mentioned, I got two No buttons whilst on vacation and one right after I got home. I did, however, get a HOT HOT HOT lead while on vacation. How hot? I had some recruiter I&#8217;d never heard of reach out to me last Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35245,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35243\/revisions\/35245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}