How Generalists Get Hired in 2026

The unconventional playbook for people who don’t fit in one box. You’ve felt it. The recruiter who skims your resume, can’t figure out “what you are,” and moves on. The role you’d be brilliant at that goes to someone narrower but easier to label. The 80 applications into the void. The quiet worry that “jack of all trades” was never a compliment. You were never going to win the specialist’s game – and you don’t have to.