If you are spending more than 45 interviews to find a job, you may need to take some courses and practice with friends. Interviewing is an acquired skill.
Yeah, it's a lot of work, I agree. You have to spend 2-3 hours a day filling out applications. More if you can muster the patience for it. But if you commit to 5 applications per day (admittedly that's a heavy workload) that's 150 applications a month. You should be able to get at least 5 offers to interview out of that. And of those 1/10 will offer you a job. Which means you will be picking from 4 job offers.
That's all a bunch of bullshit numbers but you get the idea. It's a lot more work to get a good job than most people think.
I'm trying to paint a clear picture. I have an enjoyable job. Enviable even. When I hear people bitch about 5 interviews with no good offers, I feel bad for them. The expectation needs to be that this is the case. The solution is to adjust expectations to match reality. If you're trying to say it's hard to get a job, I agree. I'm going further. It's way harder than you think. But it's not impossible. I did it. Most people did it.
That heavily depends on your situation: if you have an unusual setup (say non-US remote senior looking in the US), the numbers go down quite significantly. I currently just got 1 interview out of 600+ applications (counting Easy Applies and such on LinkedIn).
Okay. I understand the difficulty now. I'm very sorry, but that's a clear indication that your skill set (or value prop) is not in demand (i.e. the market is saturated).
Add skills to your offerings. Change career paths.
Start by looking at what people are hiring for and who is making money. You can find statistics from tax agencies, government labor departments, etc.
From the various feedback I got, it seems that while remote US is rather common nowadays, remote non-US (by a US company) it's really not. And having worked for a US company in the past few years, it's really hard to change after that.
