Turns out most of my rejections weren't about skills at all

Wanted to share something I noticed after a rough stretch of job hunting. I assumed I was getting filtered out for skills, so I kept tweaking my resume's skills section. Didn't help.

Eventually realized the real issue was years of experience, degree requirements, or location — stuff I never checked because I was only skimming JDs, not reading the whole thing.

Ended up building a small tool for myself to catch this automatically since I kept missing it manually. Not going to drop a link here since I don't think that's allowed, but happy to share more in comments if anyone's curious or has run into the same thing.