Hi Friends

First time ever in my life I ever struggle to find a job, I worked in London, Ireland and India.
I am Quality Assurance Engineer manual testing, ISTQB certified , with 15 yr of experience It has been almost 10 months no job.

I did Automation testing courses using java with selenium.
I did certified Scrum Master csm certification
Soon planning to do safe certification.

I was finding hard to one single job in IT Industry therefore decided to do give taxi exam

Pls advise

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The older you get, the deeper the truth of your statement will be.

Where you locate now ? If in USA then I can see the job market start picking up since the 2nd week in January. If USA market start improving I feel it will affect the rest of the world. I would advice don’t give up and keep applying. Salary wise I advice drop what you want to earn. I lost my job late last September and manage to get contract job with 1/2 what I used to earn. Now I’m still looking but at least the stress and anxiety is way less even if the pay is 1/2. All the best.

Thanks for your reply , I am from Ireland
Yes I am happy to work at half of my previous salary.

I am even applying for tech support, dev opps etc but no luck.

I am trying to get any job to reduce financial pressure.
Once I have some job I can do different courses and certification to up skills my resume.

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