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Hey everyone! It took me under a year to find a job. Literally. I started looking in April 2025, signed an offer in early May 2026, and will start on June 3rd. Let me tell you everything. Where my head was at when I started looking I left my job in February 2023 to focus on my health and pregnancy, then went on mat leave, and by April 2025 I was mentally ready to start looking again — hoping I’d find something within a few months and line up daycare for September (September starts are so much easier to find than mid-year spots)....

Hi everyone! I recently started looking for a job after being off the market for two years. I was very scared to even start looking. I thought that in those two years, so many things happened that I missed! While I tried to keep up with the industry by checking LinkedIn even during my leave, I still felt quite bad about the whole thing and, honestly, about myself. Then I thought, “I gave birth to a human being and survived the first few months; I don’t think anything can be more challenging than this,” and opened Notion to shape up a plan for my new project: “preparing for getting a job....