The job market is fucked if you haven't gotten in pre-2021 btw.

Indeed hides your overall amount of applications after 99, but I document and track all of them separately for accountability reasons (Specifically on wages and location for reviewing commutes and such), but I currently am sitting on about 227 submissions now. That's after the latest wave of rejects.

Now you might be coming up with your copes if you haven't been in the current market yet:
>Lie!
>Make up shit to fill in gaps!
>Use SEO words!
>Get certs!
I do all of that. I have three different Comptia certs (Data+, DataSys+, and I got a+ for even just helpdesk opportunities) and used to be a pretty significant professional in my old field but I had to leave the workforce due to a family emergency I'm not going to grandstand or demand a pity party about, but it resulted in a year-wide gap that immediately started hesitations that have built up for two years now. I've filled in with shitty make-work jobs at tax prep companies, but nothing significant.

Everything else either ghosts you or auto-rejects, because these companies have subsidized incentives to either say they're understaffed or that they're only hiring H1Bs. If you're not currently employed already, other jobs don't want you.

And it's not entirely their fault, since there's also retards using AI-generated resumes and H1Bs posing as employers to steal other resumes, meaning for every authentic application, resume, and CV there's about 15 fakes and there's no efficient auditing system that isn't also AI (that they're using shitty consumer grade models that ping false positives constantly). None of this is sustainable, either.

The system was rigged before and it's rigged even worse now. And when it falls apart I bet it's gonna be ugly.