I have been out for months and months.

Been through multiple interviews, a lot of them totally fake.

My opinion is employers are not actually hiring right now.

They are going through motions, top grading, collecting resumes, gathering info.

They are not sure what to do.

COuld change in the new year, entirely possible.

But rate cuts are coming which is usually quite a recessionary thing to do which means another dump is coming.