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Does anyone else feel like the job market is a lottery?

Every job I apply to has 200 other applicants. It's no wonder to me why I can't get an interview to save my life! I doubt 90% of the places I apply to ever even look at my resume at all. Who would, with that many? As soon as a recruiter has 2 or 3 they like, they probably just throw the rest into their trash folder or send an automatic “no thanks” and focus on the 3 likely first picks. I could be the literal best person for a role and never get as far as having my resume looked at. So instead, I am just getting more and more and more lottery tickets, hoping that one ends up being a winner. But my odds seem astronomically low, and it's terribly discouraging.


Every job I apply to has 200 other applicants. It's no wonder to me why I can't get an interview to save my life! I doubt 90% of the places I apply to ever even look at my resume at all. Who would, with that many? As soon as a recruiter has 2 or 3 they like, they probably just throw the rest into their trash folder or send an automatic “no thanks” and focus on the 3 likely first picks. I could be the literal best person for a role and never get as far as having my resume looked at. So instead, I am just getting more and more and more lottery tickets, hoping that one ends up being a winner. But my odds seem astronomically low, and it's terribly discouraging.

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