In my experience, most people who are having trouble finding a job put in a lot of effort for their first several tries, then lose hope and start just robotical

In my experience, most people who are having trouble finding a job put in a lot of effort for their first several tries, then lose hope and start just robotically resume-spamming. Probably some people are just lazy, but I'm guessing in a lot of cases you're catching people on the tail end of that.