Start with your resume and profiles before you begin applying. When you find a role, check the expected joining date first. If the company needs someone immediately and you still have two or three months of notice period left, focus on other openings unless the recruiter says they can wait.

1. Draft your resume with an AI assistant if useful: Share your actual experience — companies, projects, technologies, education, and employment history. Clearly mention the AEM role you are targeting, such as backend, full-stack, Forms, or platform-focused roles. Also mention the type of companies you want to target. If you use an AI assistant, ask it to prepare a role-focused draft and include relevant ATS keywords only where they match your real experience. Review every bullet yourself. Remove anything you did not actually do or cannot explain properly in an interview.
2. Do not publish an AI-generated resume draft as-is. If you use Overleaf, start with a simple one-column template and move the reviewed content into it carefully. Check formatting, dates, links, section order, and every bullet before exporting the PDF. Do not add GitHub, HackerRank, or other profile links unless you actively use them.
3. Upload the final PDF to an AI assistant and check it with one or two ATS checker tools. Do not focus only on the score because different tools can give different results. Use the report mainly to check whether your skills are being read correctly, important AEM keywords are missing, or any section is not parsed properly.
4. Once the resume is ready, update LinkedIn and Naukri section by section. Your job title, company dates, skills, notice period, and experience should match the information in your resume. Keep your last working day, current location, preferred locations, CTC, and availability accurate. Use clear AEM skill names that match the work you actually do and the roles you are applying for. Do not add a skill only because it appears in a job description.
5. Notice period — focus on roles that match your joining date: If you are serving a long notice period and a job clearly asks for an immediate joiner, check whether the recruiter or company can wait. If they cannot, it is usually better to skip that opening and spend your time on roles that match your joining date.
6. A long notice period does not mean you should stop applying. Some companies have longer interview and approval processes, while others need people quickly. Read the job post, ask the recruiter about the expected joining date, and clearly mention your last working day.
7. As your last working day gets closer, increase your daily job search. More immediate-joiner and early-joiner roles may now match your availability. Use early notice time to prepare your resume, LinkedIn, Naukri, company shortlist, and AEM interview prep.

Before applying, check the expected joining date. If the company needs an immediate joiner and you still have a long notice period, focus on other roles unless they mention notice-period flexibility.

Do not depend only on job portals. If you find the recruiter who posted the role, an HR email in the job post, or someone who can refer you, contact them as well.

1. LinkedIn posts: Search AEM (or your role keyword), filter type to Posts. First pass — wider time window; after that — last 1 day only. Look for HR or hiring posts for your role. If the recruiter has shared an email address in the post, send your resume there as well. Mention the role, your AEM experience, current location, and joining availability clearly. Keep the message short.
2. Gmail cover-letter template: For LinkedIn or Naukri invites, keep a reusable Gmail template — short cover letter with skills, experience, LWD if applicable, contact details, and resume attached. Reuse for every invite-style apply. State your last working day clearly when the role has specific joining expectations.
3. Referral before direct apply: When you see a job on LinkedIn or Naukri, do not apply immediately. Search that company on LinkedIn, find people in the same role (or a related AEM role), and send a connection request. If you know someone in the company, or find an AEM developer from that company on LinkedIn, you can politely ask whether they are comfortable referring you. Share the job link and a short summary of your experience. If they do not reply, continue with the official application instead of waiting.
4. Recruiter direct: If the post lists a recruiter email or contact info, send your resume there as well alongside any portal application.
5. Staffing / HR agencies: If a staffing agency is officially handling the role, follow the process shared by the recruiter. Before sending personal documents, check the recruiter, agency, company, and job details. Also check whether the same role is available on the company's careers site.

Do not depend only on job portals. If you find the recruiter who posted the role, an HR email in the job post, or someone who can refer you, contact them as well. Still use the company's official application process where required. Keep templates in Gmail; refine referral and HR-post wording with an AI assistant once, then reuse.

Keep your LinkedIn activity focused on AEM so it becomes easier to find relevant recruiters, hiring posts, groups, and job discussions.

1. Join AEM-focused LinkedIn groups (see Community links on this page) and turn on notifications for the most active ones.
2. Follow AEM recruiters, Adobe Experience Cloud professionals, AEM developers, architects, and companies you want to work for. When you find useful AEM job posts, save the search terms and check them regularly.
3. Do not depend only on the LinkedIn home feed. Search for terms such as AEM Developer, Adobe Experience Manager, AEM Cloud Service, AEM Forms, and Adobe Experience Cloud. Try location-specific searches as well.
4. Search AEM (Posts + Jobs) daily with a last-1-day filter once your notice window is open. Save useful searches and repeat them regularly instead of relying only on the home feed.

The goal is simple: when you open LinkedIn for job search, you should know where to look instead of scrolling through unrelated posts.

AEM openings can appear across employer careers sites, LinkedIn, Naukri, recruiter posts, and other job boards. The same opening may not be equally visible on every channel.

1. Do not check only the company careers page. AEM openings can also appear on LinkedIn, Naukri, recruiter posts, and other job boards. The same role may not be easy to find on every platform.
2. In the Companies section, open the company details and check the AEM evidence and Hiring evidence links. These links explain why the company is included in the database and may also help you find recent AEM-related openings.
3. Keep Naukri and LinkedIn profiles complete and current so inbound outreach can find you when the careers site is quiet.
4. Check the official careers page for the role details, but also search LinkedIn, Naukri, and relevant recruiter posts.

Check the official careers page for the role details, but also search LinkedIn, Naukri, and relevant recruiter posts. Use the evidence links in this playbook to understand why a company is listed and where AEM-related hiring was found.

Keep job-search prep and AEM technical prep separate.

1. Job-search content: An AI assistant can help draft resume bullets, profile copy, and outreach messages. Provide only your real experience and remove any claim you cannot verify or explain.
2. AEM technical depth: This playbook's roadmaps, glossary, and interview prep — plus Adobe Experience League when you need to verify a topic before an interview.
3. Employer research: Use the Companies table and company evidence before you interview or message someone at that employer.
4. Do not list tools or platforms on your resume or profiles unless you use them actively.

AI tools can help structure and review your profile. This playbook focuses on AEM career research, learning paths, and interview preparation.

How to search and apply on LinkedIn and Naukri after your profiles are ready.

1. Check new roles regularly: Check your saved AEM searches on LinkedIn, Naukri, and the company pages you are actively tracking. You do not need to apply to every opening. First check the skills, location, experience range, and expected joining date.
2. Keep your profiles updated: Review LinkedIn and Naukri whenever your notice period, last working day, location, skills, or resume changes. The information across your resume and profiles should remain consistent.
3. Follow up without waiting forever: If you contacted a recruiter or asked for a referral, keep track of it. Follow up once when appropriate, but continue applying to other roles instead of waiting for one company.
4. Prepare while applying: Keep revising AEM topics and interview questions while you apply. If your resume mentions Dispatcher, AEM Forms, Solr, Cloud Service, or another specialised area, prepare those topics properly because interviewers may ask about your real project work.
5. Increase applications as your joining date gets closer: Start preparing early. As your last working day gets closer, spend more time applying to new roles and contacting recruiters for openings that match your joining date.

Start preparing early. As your last working day gets closer, spend more time applying to new roles and contacting recruiters for openings that match your joining date.

Common tools for resume, profiles, and applications in India.

1. ChatGPT or another AI assistant can help you draft and review resume content, LinkedIn or Naukri sections, and recruiter messages. Always check the final text against your real experience before publishing or sending it.
2. Overleaf — one-column LaTeX resume template; manual paste from the draft, export PDF.
3. ATS checker tools can help you find parsing problems, missing keywords, or badly structured sections. Different tools may give different scores, so do not treat one score as a hiring result.
4. LinkedIn — profile, job search (30-day then 1-day filter), Posts search for HR hiring, company people search for referrals.
5. Keep your Naukri profile consistent with your resume and LinkedIn. Update your notice period, last working day, preferred locations, skills, and availability when these details change.
6. Gmail — saved template for cover letter and resume when applying via invite or email from a post.
7. This playbook — Companies, filters, and interview prep once conversations start.

Avoid automated mass-application workflows. Use a reviewed base resume and consistent profile information, then adjust role-specific keywords or emphasis only when the changes accurately reflect your experience.

Independent LinkedIn groups for AEM developers — discovery only; not run by this playbook.

1. Open the Community section (sidebar → Community) for LinkedIn group links. These are independent peer groups — not administered here and not affiliated with Adobe.
2. Join only if the group's rules fit you. Share openings and ask questions politely — do not spam resumes into discussions.
3. Combine group leads with the Companies list and your own LinkedIn/Naukri search.

Community links live in the Community chapter so they stay in one place (also linked from How to Apply).

Open the Community section for independent LinkedIn group links (discovery only).