That still doesn't seem like very much time to me. Job hunting involves hours and hours of interviews; five minutes of paperwork is negligible by comparison, right? Are people mass-spamming applications or something?
since the dawn of time (1970, jan1)
Photocopies were low quality and looked obvious and got you into the trash straight away.
So mass, but compared to population not very mass.
The real start date was Eternal September.
When 2/3 companies don't even bother sending a rejection email, I tend to not bother doing the 20 minute job applications.