I Was Rejected by the Algorithms I Eventually Replaced.

“I spent two years as a Lead Analyst whose job had been reduced to the structural analysis of dust.”

That experience—boring, hollow, and structurally wrong for how my brain works—is what eventually led me to build JobPolaris.

The Catalyst: The "Dust Policy" Moment

My career started in the polished lobbies of Corporate America. Fresh out of college, I landed a role in IT at a massive financial services firm. At first, I found a niche in business management where I could be creative, improve user interfaces, and actively help people. It fit me perfectly.

Then came the reorganization. Overnight, my team was disbanded. I was moved from a role that felt like me into the highly structured world of Cybersecurity Policy. I was a Lead Analyst whose 'Job Demands' had been reduced to the structural analysis of dust. I was safe, I was salaried, and I was socially 'Rusting-out.' The system was functioning, but the human element—me—was crashing.

The Science of "Person-Environment Fit"

Desperate to understand why one job energized me and the other drained me, I went back to school and earned a Master's degree in Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology.

I fell in love with the science of psychometrics, job analysis, and the data behind human potential. But when I tried to use my degree to pivot into an HR role, the traditional hiring algorithms rejected me. To the ATS scanners, I was just "The IT Guy."

“The traditional HR algorithms rejected me—and they were right.”

When I finally ran my own profile through the JobPolaris Engine, I didn't flag for HR or Management. I flagged for Systems, Innovation, and Logic. I wasn't built to manage people-heavy policy cycles; I was built to engineer the tools that analyze them. Once I stopped chasing roles that fought against my nature and started engineering solutions, the work stopped feeling like a fight.

The platform I built runs on ONET labor data, IO psychology research, and a proprietary framework I call the 3-Moat AI Resistance Index. The full methodology is here if you want to go deep.

About This Project: JobPolaris is an independent research initiative. It is not affiliated with any employer, institution, or third party.

Data Security: As a Lead Information Security Analyst, I treat your psychometric data with the same rigor I apply to enterprise systems. We do not sell data. We provide intelligence.

Data Sources & Attribution

JobPolaris uses public domain data from O*NET, BLS, College Scorecard, and IPEDS. Zip code and city mapping data is provided by GeoNames, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.