Its pretty brutal here in the US. Tons of fake job postings, bad actors, and real opportunities are not differentiable from the fake. I've easily submitted sev

Its pretty brutal here in the US. Tons of fake job postings, bad actors, and real opportunities are not differentiable from the fake. I've easily submitted several 1000's of CVs over the past two years and only gotten a handful of callbacks, this with 10 years of experience in IT Operations; I've seen a lot of entry level people giving up and retraining into other professions; HVAC and other trades. I've seriously considered it myself. You have to go where the jobs are available, if there are no jobs there are no jobs; doesn't matter what they claim in the reports if there are no positions actually hiring. Currently, there is overall less than a 0.01% rate of conversion to phone interview. Many of the posting platforms also do not remove known bad actors. PatternedAI being a very prominent one on LinkedIn (where they simply collect your information and never have a position, recycling their postings every 3 months). There are quite a lot of companies like this.