Are you under 40?
I have impeccable credentials in my chosen field, years of experience. My resume gets me many interviews. However, as soon as I meet the interviewer, with my gray hair blowing in the wind, as it were, the interview is over. I can see it their glazed over eyes. Age discrimination has been around since the cost of medical coverage has hit the roof.
Where I work, it’t the reverse case. There are all these overblown, egotistical people, who came of age during the 1960s and early 1970s, who were in the right place at the right time, many of whom have significant psychological issues, broken marriages and other problems but who, as a controlling demographic, have seized and cling stubborly to power. Anyone who is between the ages of 30 and 45 right now can forget about getting very far up the ladder, unless they are very, very good and very, very lucky. There is a grey cieling.