I have 15 years of experience and have found unless I'm contacted directly by the internal recruiter of a company it's pretty much impossible to even get a repl

I have 15 years of experience and have found unless I'm contacted directly by the internal recruiter of a company it's pretty much impossible to even get a reply to a job ad. I don't know how people who are new to this industry are managing to find work. Pretty sure I'm getting filtered near 100% of the time.