I’ve applied to between 550-600 jobs since December and hardly heard anything back. The past two weeks recruiters started reaching out to me and at this point I’m at least having early round discussions with 5 companies. They’re mostly smaller and somewhere in the health care space, but I went from virtually 0 to having something. Obviously it’s early stages so you can’t count on anything, but it looks like things may be picking up again.
You gotta understand - making workers obsolete is the owning class’s greatest desire. They can’t wait to get rid of us. So when any chance might come up, they’ll try everything to make it work, no matter the cost for everyone else.