Job timing is the question the dasha system answers best, because employment events — offers, exits, promotions — are discrete and datable, and they cluster hard inside specific planetary windows. The method below is what a competent astrologer actually runs; knowing it lets you judge any answer you're given.
The four checks
- ✦Current mahadasha–antardasha: are the period lords connected to the 10th house (career), 6th (service/employment), 2nd (income) or 11th (gains)? Connection = live window.
- ✦The antardasha lord's condition: a well-placed sub-period lord delivers its promise smoothly; a combust or debilitated one delivers late and with friction.
- ✦Transit confirmation: Jupiter crossing the 10th house, its lord, or your Moon sign's 11th is the classical offer-letter transit; Saturn's simultaneous support (the double transit) marks durable roles rather than stopgaps.
- ✦The D10 chart's echo: the same period lords active in the career divisional chart seal the verdict.
Why 'nothing is working' happens
Sustained rejection despite real effort usually maps to a dasha with no career connection — often 12th- or 8th-house periods, which support study, foreign preparation, or rebuilding instead. The chart's advice in such windows is concrete: upskill, bank runway, aim applications at the window's opening month rather than spraying them into a closed one. Effort inside the right window converts at several times the rate.
Fresh graduates vs job changers
For a first job, weight the 6th house and Mercury (applications, interviews) more; for switches, the 10th and its lord dominate; for comebacks after a gap, watch the dasha transition itself — the first antardasha of a new mahadasha is the classic fresh-start marker. The same four checks apply; only the weights move.