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What you are probably seeing
Your portfolio highlights the frameworks you enjoy, but your inbox remains empty despite regular job applications.
The projects you built showcase advanced patterns that appear rarely in the job postings you are actually targeting.
Why it happens
Tutorials and social media algorithms prioritize new trends over stable, widely used tools, creating a distorted view of actual demand.
Job descriptions are often written by non-technical recruiters who use broad keywords, while developers use specific technologies to filter candidates.
What changed recently
Step by step
1. Collect the last twenty job postings that match your desired role and save them to a document.
2. Count how many times your current stack appears in that list and compare it to your primary skills.
3. Note any recurring gaps where companies demand a specific tool you have not used recently.
4. Reach out to two candidates in your network to ask which technologies are critical for their current projects.
5. Spend one evening building a small, practical example using one of the missing technologies you identified.
Ways to go further
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