Graduated as a mechanical engineering student from QMUL in 2025. Pay for Mech Eng is laughable in the UK so I was looking for a career switch.

Did a 4-month long data engineering/ analytics focused training course. That ended in November and I have been applying to jobs ever since.

Started off with the typical advice of tailoring my CV to every job app, writing cover letters etc. But that got me nowhere. Went ahead and made a general-ish CV I could apply to everything with, and started spamming that since February.

From meaningless online assessments, to waking up daily to rejection emails, to those stupid HireVue interviews, this was probably the worst 6 months of my entire life.

But we’ve made it out to the other side.