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How a job hunt works in 2026: interviews, take-home tests with AI, what a junior role looks like

A gap no article covers yet: the mechanics of applying, interviewing and freelancing now; the journalist writes it from a memo.

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Where it comes from

• The survey's gaps The job hunt mechanics in 2026 (survey)
• Start from the storyline The gaps; brief task 6 (article)

What it answers in the 2018 book

• Upwork unanswered outline, Your CV

Where it goes

Chapter Act as the job you want, part Getting the job, or making it (drafting); topic Getting the job: hired for the workflow, act as the job you want.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Act as the job you want: do the job in public before you have it, Your CV should be online, with links to the work.

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