[BurningFrog]

If you've done good work for a few decades, you have tons of former coworkers willing to hire you.

[mike_ivanov]

Yes, they refer me to their corporate recruiter and what happens next is "sorry, that's how the process is, we can't change it" :-)

[justrudd]

Agree completely. Reach out to prior managers that you respected and would want to work with again. In the past decade, I’ve worked with the same manager across 3 different companies. All without a loop.