1 Year post grad and losing hope

I'm over a year post grad and still unemployed and it's not looking good. I've tried focusing on one different field/role and tried diversifying my applications too. At this point it feels like I've ready every advice thread and nothing has helped. I never get past the first stage of interviews. This isn't really asking for advice but after another rejection, I just had to get this off my chest. It feels ridiculously unfair and almost comical that this was the job market I graduated into. I went to a "good" school (not that it mattered to me at the time), have tried networking, and all of those have been dead ends. People either don't respond or they say they will help you out then ghost you. Why even respond in the first place?? Recruiters have been annoying too, I follow them to see job listings and all they post are AI memes of themselves and say they aren't open to being contacted in the LinkedIn bios. And Linkedin is all slop. The people in my life have given me the most genuinely useless advice too. My uncle told me to own a restaurant. Not just work at one but own one. The restaurant won't even hire me in the first place. People keep sending me the most off the wall job listings or telling me to go apply in person. I set up coffee chats with people to network and they completely flake on the agreed time and date or join for 5 minutes to complain about their job. I know the gap on my resume is starting to hurt my chances as well. I wish that employers would just give people a chance and be open to training employees like they should, and not expecting you to have a doctorate and 5 years…

Posted by /u/ChoiceExcitement4806 on r/jobhunting
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