https://severinbucher.com/tags/career/Recent content in Career on Severin Bucher | BlogHugoenSun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/the-broken-job-search/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/the-broken-job-search/<p>If you&rsquo;re applying to hundreds of jobs and hearing nothing back, it probably isn&rsquo;t you. The way the funnel is set up works against you.</p> <p>Big companies dominate job boards like LinkedIn partly because they pay for placement. A single listing at a well-known corporation can pull over a thousand applications, and a lot of them get auto-filtered before a person ever looks. Even a strong resume struggles to surface in that volume, especially for roles that often get filled internally or through referrals before the public pile is touched.</p>https://severinbucher.com/posts/my-4-step-study-plan-for-passing-the-aws-solutions-architect-associate/Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/my-4-step-study-plan-for-passing-the-aws-solutions-architect-associate/<p>As a web engineer doing full-stack work, I&rsquo;ve spent years inside the AWS ecosystem. EC2, DynamoDB, Redis, Lambda, API Gateway, and S3 are part of my daily toolkit. I was comfortable building and deploying on them, but I also knew there was a lot of AWS I&rsquo;d never touched and a lot of architectural reasoning I&rsquo;d never had to do explicitly.</p> <p>So this year I set myself a goal at work: pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. I wanted to go deeper on the services I only knew at the surface and get better at designing whole systems rather than wiring up the parts I already knew. I passed the SAA-C03 on my first attempt with a score of 903/1000, and this is the plan that got me there over about nine months.</p>