So apply to thousands of jobs then? That's only a couple applications a day for 2 years.

And I'm not saying this from an ivory tower, my first job took 700 applications in 2021. But until you have a job, your job is to apply 8 hours a day

2021 and 2025 are different.

I have a friend who is a SSE. Mid 30s. Been fully employed his entire life. No degree. Has been writing production code since 15.

His entire local professional network got nuked and people stopped hiring because of that stupid software engineering R&D amortization budget deception of Section 174. And I assume the double whammy of ai.

He had his resume reviewed, ran it by friends it looked good and solid.

Applied to about 300 roles before realizing it was a non starter and he was getting automated rejections for everything.

He had to automate his application process around a full career CV and Ai.

He would spend all day copying in role descriptions and urls and had cursor spit out custom .MD resumes and then run a pdf generator on them.

It was kinda ok and also kinda like each resume was a hyper specific lie. It definitely hallucinated.

He still hit 3k resumes before getting hired and he still only had like 4 companies give interviews.

And that was only after that stupid tax law was revoked.

One persons past suffering and struggle cannot be so naively extrapolated to anothers current suffering.

What are people doing to need 700 applications? If you went to university, usually you'd be able to get an internship after 4-5 applications & a return offer. Then afterwards just stay put when the economy isn't doing well and hop around when it is.