@elite.recruiter: Let me be honest with you about two things at once. Yes the market is frozen. Hiring is at its slowest pace in over a decade. Ghost jobs are real. The odds are genuinely harder than they were two years ago. And also. If you have applied to 30 plus roles and heard nothing, the market is not the only reason. The real reasons most people are not hearing back: - Your resume is optimised for the job you had, not the one you want - You are applying to everything instead of targeting the right 20 companies - Your LinkedIn is invisible to recruiter search - You are applying cold with no internal referral or connection - Your application looks identical to the 400 others they received The market is hard. Your strategy can still be better. Both things are true. Comment FIX and let's start with the resume. #jobsearch2026 #careeradvice #hiringfreeze #resumetips #eliterecruiter