Applied to 3,900 Jobs. The Market Wasn't Listening.

The standard advice for a difficult job market — apply more, cast wider — is collapsing under its own evidence. The Bluesky account documenting 3,900 applications over two years is not an outlier; it is the logical endpoint of advice that assumed the bottleneck was access rather than the structure of the market itself. When a machine-learning graduate with a first-class postgraduate degree , the volume-and-credentials strategy has failed at both levers simultaneously.