I graduated last year and have been applying to jobs manually. I did very well academically and have done multiple projects to put on my resume. Still getting nothing. Nothing seems to actually matter anymore. I had a discussion with a friend of a friend who is a manager in a different industry. She says she doesn’t even see actual applications anymore, she just receives garbage AI summaries, and most people who apply just get filtered out immediately. So honestly, yeah, just go blast companies with spam applications, and hope their AI randomly decides that your resume is good. Or try your luck doing it manually and hope the company doesn’t have a shitty AI filter.