The 5 Hiring Filters

You already do data work. Find out which of the five hiring filters is hiding it

For people who already work with data. Three questions, 30 seconds.

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Your CV, as read10 seconds
What they
actually see
TitleOps Coordinator
Actual job40% reporting
Read asNot data
ResultSkipped
Fix: Filter 1 first
Your GameplanFilter 1 · Fit
YOUR DATA JOB
GAMEPLAN
TodayStage 3 · Applying
Week 1Headline rewritten
Week 3Real-context project
Week 5First screens land
Week 8Final rounds
Start: Filter 1 →
The Filters5 / 5
FIVE
FILTERS.
1 · FitBroken
2 · CapabilityPass
3 · EvidenceLocked
4 · CredibilityLocked
5 · StoryLocked
Hiring stops at the first fail
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What do you do today?
Question 1 of 3 · 30 seconds total
Where is the data job search right now?
Question 2 of 3
Where do you think the problem is?
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The Mechanism

Hiring checks five things, in this order

It stops at the first one you fail, so everything after it is invisible. That's why fixing the wrong thing feels like doing everything right and getting nothing back.

Filter 1
Fit
Decided in the first 10 seconds, before a bullet is read. A generic "data analyst" posting takes 200 applicants in a day. Specificity is strategy.
Filter 2
Capability
Every tool on your CV defensible, and the metrics your industry runs on. Knowing SQL isn't knowing which numbers matter.
Filter 3
Evidence
Real work or coursework. Real company context, ending in a recommendation, not findings.
Filter 4
Credibility
Minute four of every screen: "tell me about your data experience." The work exists. Nobody wrote it down, so on paper every line is self-issued.
Filter 5
Story
Where strong candidates lose. A final round means the first four cleared, so skills were never the problem. Can you defend the work live and land the so what in three minutes?

If you've been rejected fifty times, the problem probably isn't you. It's that you're fixing the wrong filter.

Most people fix the filter they're most comfortable with, not the one blocking them. Another SQL course when the problem was the headline. Another project when the last one ended in a chart instead of a decision. Months of real effort, aimed one step past the thing stopping you. The Gameplan tells you which one is yours.

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Quick answers

How is it personalized?
Your work and your stage decide which filter is blocking you first, and that changes the whole document. Someone applying with no responses gets a different Gameplan to someone losing final rounds.
I haven't started applying yet. Is this for me?
If you already build reports or dashboards at work, yes. You'll get the version that starts with how that work reads on paper. Starting from zero, it still names the first filter to build.
I'm already a data analyst. Is there anything in here for me?
Yes. "The role above the one you have" is a targeting problem before it's a skills problem. You'll get the Fit Gameplan.
I'm not in the UK, US or Europe. Is this still useful?
The five filters are how hiring works, not where. The Gameplan applies anywhere.