I'm Chetan - a data analyst at AppleCare, and someone who's been exactly where you are. In May 2025 I lost my job. One month later I'd signed a new one with a 100%+ salary raise. It all came true through a system. I stopped treating job-hunting like filling out forms and started treating it like sales: targeted outreach, real recruiter conversations, cold emails that got replies (I've booked interviews at YC-backed startups from a single cold email).