You should start by treating a job search like a job. Get up at 8 and work 8 hours every day of the week. Lengthy interviews are great as you wont have to struggle figuring out what useful task to spend the hours on.
You can also share your schedule in the interviews and disclose other interview processes in progress. They might find talking about interviewing more interesting than your interview. Working with them succesfully might be more important than your skills.
This is what I am doing right now. I don’t want to risk part timing it, not finding something (been at this a whole week) and then wondering “what if I squandered my time?”.
Sadly I’m forgoing working on my startup because I just enjoy it too much and won’t make progress on getting a role, but themes the brakes!
Working on a product comparison platform that automates a lot of sorting through different self published content.
It’s rough but seem to like it so far and I like working on it. Feel free to hit me up on X if you are working on something you’d like to share or have questions!
not gonna work in current market. current tech job market is dying out. tech market in many countries outside of USA is beyond extreme right now. you will be beating out a dead horse and yourself too with it.
instead, take this time to re-focus, maybe change direction.
You can also share your schedule in the interviews and disclose other interview processes in progress. They might find talking about interviewing more interesting than your interview. Working with them succesfully might be more important than your skills.