Job Hunting in USA 2024

So, I'm standing in Cambridge with the Google office behind me with a bunch of resumes in my hand and if you're wondering why I'm, you know, choosing to come back to this platform in this fashion well, it's because of the wonderful and beautiful nature of the job market and you know, all those in charge of, you know, dealing with the job market and applicants such as myself and you know, everything that they're doing the plan is to find people walking out of this office and all of the offices in the neighborhood, you know we've got Microsoft, Akamai and a few other, you know, tech companies here the plan is to hand out my resume as though I'm handing out flyers for Domino's or Pizza Hut and you know, hope that they're hiring in their team or in their org and you know, somewhat be able to strike a conversation with them which might lead to an interview and you know, no idea where that interview will lead but I'm out of options, so if you have any suggestions please let me know down in the comment section below if you think applying on the job portal is enough, well, that's not enough if you think reaching out to people for referrals is enough, well, that's not enough either the only way to land interviews, at least in my experience so far is through personal recommendations and by that, I mean someone being able to sell you to a hiring manager who finally gets convinced and calls you for an interview and you know, what happens sometimes, even if you get these interview calls 4-5 rounds later, you either get ghosted or you know you get a beautiful email saying, sorry, we've decided to go ahead with someone else so honestly, I have absolutely no idea what the job market expects from you know, applicants such as me at this point if the expectation is for everyone to you know, launch a new chat GPT or turn into an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos and you know, launch rockets into outer space then please put that on the job description, because we'll learn it and an ode to all the career coaches and you know, all these LinkedIn gurus who sit on platforms like YouTube and LinkedIn and tell us to optimize our LinkedIn by you know, by reaching out to people and sending cold messages and all of those things sending a text with a connection request yeah, none of those things work anymore because nobody accepts these requests at all, nobody even looks at these messages everyone in the US who's a student who's looking for a job is doing this and nobody even accepts these connection requests or they don't even look at these messages so all of that is just a waste of time and even those people who do, if you're lucky enough to get a response all they say is go apply on the job portal because nothing is as effortless as networking and you know being directed to a black hole that you're trying to avoid in the first place why do I call it a black hole? Because I have no idea where my resume is going if I apply on the job portal and it's not just me, I'm speaking for all the international students in the US who are applying to jobs at the moment and who are you know facing a hard time because you know, you apply to a job and you either get auto-rejected because the position is already filled and then that puts a question in your head of why the hell it's even posted on the job portal because they fill it first internally and then they choose to post it on LinkedIn or Glassware or Indeed or you know, whatever the hell job platform is there right now or you get a reject at the most odd hour you know, a Friday night at 2am or a Saturday night at 2am these companies are even making sure to send these auto-generated emails to reject you at a time so that they can even ruin your weekend successfully so I've got absolutely no idea what the intention of these companies in the current market is I do not want to hear anymore of market is bad because they turned hiring into a joke a couple of years ago where they hired anyone and everyone who was walking on the street forget doing 2 degrees, going to college even if you just went to a coding bootcamp, you'd get hired as a software engineer and then half the people got laid off last year so yeah man, I'm out of options right now if you guys have any suggestions, anything to say please put it down in the comment section below I sincerely, sincerely request you to not suggest anymore of what I've already mentioned so far in this rant but if you've got any other workaround apart from me handing out my resume on the streets or if you have your own story to share in the comment section below please go ahead and do so and if you happen to be hiring in your team and if you're looking for a data scientist, software engineer anyone who can use a computer yeah, I can send you my resume just putting it out there please don't look elsewhere thank you