Hey Ala,

If you've been applying all summer and hearing nothing back, it's not your CV. It's the calendar.

Right now, hiring is winding down. Half of every team is on holiday, and nobody onboards a new engineer into a half-empty office.

Then September hits and everything snaps open. Hiring managers come back with budgets they need to spend before the end of the year. Roles go live fast. September and October are prime time for landing DevOps jobs.

THE PART ALMOST EVERYONE GETS WRONG

Everyone applies during the wave. Hardly anyone prepares before it.

They spend the summer "taking a break from the search," show up in September with the same CV and the same empty GitHub, and compete with thousands of people doing exactly the same thing.

The engineers who land offers in September don't start applying in September. They get built for it, starting now.

THE 90-DAY PLAN

I wrote down the exact plan I'd run if you gave me your next 90 days.

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