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There is a middle ground. A lot of younger people are legit shit at applying for jobs, like they don't even read the job description and put the the position title... they just throw up a wall of buzzwords and copy-paste it and call it a day, showing the application reviewers they have no legit interest in the job.
Also a lot of them are awful interviewers, again, focusing on vibes and buzzwords and demonstrating a lack of legitimate interest. And yeah that might work if you want a bullshit job for a bullshit company, but for more serious work it's a huge red flag.
Just having basic social skills to like, demonstrate that you know what the company does and that you'd be interested in it's mission, as basic as that is, sets your application above like 95% of the rest of them. You don't have to be fancy... you just have to demonstrate basic information processing and acknowledgement skills...
Edit: Going to just bold 'vast majority' since people seem eager to ignore that part of what I wrote.
I strongly disagree.
Unless you're born into a wealthy zip code (and your zip code of birth correlates strongly with whether or not you become successful), you have four choices as far as I can see it: Crime, a lifetime of debt for a college degree, risk death in the military, or work a dead-end job until you inevitably can't afford to live.
That is what the vast majority of young people are facing. They want to work, but even if they get a job, it doesn't keep up with the cost of living and neither ruling party is going to lift a finger to help them.
The college degree also does not guarantee you're not working a dead-end job! I know graduates doing things like driving school busses, working as a barista, and just working in an apartment building office. No guarantee you'll find anything in your desired field
Good point. And even doctors and lawyers are finding it a struggle to live, because of the debt burden.