13 August 2026

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Job-Genie sees this constantly. Pivoting into an unrelated field is common — but it creates a measurable Recruiter-Fit Gap. Recruiters scanning for conventional signals miss non-linear candidates entirely, not because the experience is absent, but because it isn't framed in the language specialist recruiters recognise.

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