You did the work. You built the career. Then the market stopped responding. You were laid off, reorganized, or pushed into a job search you never expected to run. Now qualified applications disappear into automated systems. Recruiters go silent. Your experience is labeled “overqualified,” your range is mistaken for inconsistency, and the longer the search continues, the easier it becomes to question your own value. You are not obsolete. Your career signal is being misread. Fired, Ghosted, Invisible is a strategic recovery and job-search operating system for mid-career and senior professionals navigating AI screening, age-coded assumptions, ghost postings, recruiter overload, and the hidden hiring market. This is not another résumé book telling you to apply more, network harder, or stay positive. It shows you how to rebuild visibility, translate experience into evidence, and create career traction without shrinking your seniority or pretending the system has not changed. Inside, you will learn how to: Build a Role Thesis that communicates the problems you solve and the executive value you bring - Use the Asymmetry Matrix to identify where automated screening, age bias, and hiring risk are working against you - Turn experience into decision evidence that both screening systems and human leaders can recognize - Spot low-probability and ghost opportunities before they consume your time and energy - Deploy Diagnostic Outreach to reach decision-makers through peer-level conversations rather than desperate networking - Respond to the “overqualified” label without apologizing for your experience - Build a Portfolio Lattice that expands your options beyond dependence on one employer or one conventional role - Follow a practical 90-day plan for restoring visibility, confidence, and forward motion This book is for you if: You have a strong career history but are not getting interviews. - You are recovering from a layoff, restructuring, or unexpected exit. - You suspect age or seniority is being treated as a hiring risk. - You are exhausted by ghosting, silence, and applications that lead nowhere. - You need a strategy built for the market that exists now—not the one that existed when you last searched. Your job may have ended. Your professional value did not. Stop applying into the void. Reclaim your visibility, rebuild your leverage, and create the next chapter of your career on purpose.