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Something I don't say enough for people that always make it through to the interview but never seem to get through the first round is that you've done the right thing to sell yourself in the application, but you're probably missing the main point of what a screening is, which is to get to the point quickly and to share that you have the basic technical ability and foundational experience to be able to do the job. The screening is not for you to give all of the details about everything you have done. It's where you give a high-level overview of your career story to date. So what is your career narrative? And that is where you share that you have that technical skill set to be able to do the job. What's also probably preventing you from getting to that next stage is that you're not getting to the point fast enough. The screening is a very short call. Sometimes it can be 20 minutes, sometimes it can be 40 minutes, but the interviewer has a specific set of questions they need to ask you, and they need to know the answers to those questions quick smart. You need to be able to articulate yourself extremely well in 90 seconds or less. Each of your answers should be about 90 seconds or less in a screening, so you give them all of the information they need in that moment to decide whether you make it through to that next round. Yes, the screening call is technically the round where it's the least amount of pressure, but the person running the screening call— and I can tell you this as I've been that person— they're the gatekeeper in you through to that next round. Solution for you: when you're practicing your screening call, get 10 questions that you know that they might ask you, then practice your questions. Time yourself on how quickly you answer those questions and how quickly you get to the point, how concise you can be, and how you are making sure that you are getting the right information to them in that short period of time. You need to demonstrate to them in 20 minutes how you are potentially the right person for this role. Your resume's got you this far, now it's up to you to get you to the next stage.