Pretty interesting idea as an incremental game! I feel like trying to get the paper/application count up is a bit too slow, while you gain a lot of experience by completing projects, which made me just sit there with a whole bunch of experience while having to go through the boring process of getting applications in (that might be how it works in real life, I guess). From the experience of playing a bunch of incremental games, I feel like having a quick and big dopamine boost at the beginning is quite important to get the player hooked to keep playing the game.
The art style has some space for improvement, as currently the assets look a bit incoherent.
I do think this is a very interesting topic to make into an incremental game!