How do I get hired when the background check keeps ending things?

You are getting interviews, which means your skills and how you present are landing. Then the background check comes, and things end. That pattern is exhausting and demoralizing, because you can feel yourself doing everything right up to the wall you keep hitting. Let us be honest that it is hard, and then look at what can actually move. The key shift is timing and choosing. When the check ends things late, it usually means the record surfaced after they had built up a picture of you as one thing, and it landed as a contradiction. Two things help. Seek out fair-chance employers, the ones who have decided upfront that a record is not a disqualifier, so the check is not an ambush. And where it fits, name the record yourself early, briefly and forward-looking, so it arrives as honesty rather than a surprise. So this week, redirect some of your effort toward employers and programs that openly hire people with records, rather than spending it on companies that will only reject you at the last step. You are not doing anything wrong in the interview. You are aiming at the wrong doors, and there are doors built for exactly where you are.