I've been told on this forum, when I was having a hard-time landing a job in 2022, that it's a tough hiring market. Since then, the sentiment is exactly the same, if not worse due to long-term economic uncertainty and LLM job/resume spam. In my experience, this is the worst it's been in 20+ years, and we haven't seen the bottom yet.

The only thing that saved me was asking everybody in my network until I got a job from a friend of a friend, which I'm holding on to for dear life. Do that and prepare a plan B (self-employment/career switch/move to a lower cost-of-living area)