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A significant proportion of job vacancies are vaporware vacancies and they're doing shit like harvesting personal details and creating the impression that their company is in a period of growth or economic strength when they actually aren't.
It's super gross and predatory but capitalism is a sick game.
Try not to take it too hard, is what I'm saying.
You might want to try coaching specifically with regards to interview skills if you feel like that's what is letting you down.
You might also consider aiming for companies in your field of preference but applying for a generalist role (e.g. secretarial, data entry, customer service) to get your foot in the door with which to parlay that into a job that's closer to your desired role.
A significant issue with this is that other people's well-being is dependent on me having a job. It's not just about me.
I can't spare any money if that isn't free, and the issue is not just the fact that I lack interview skills, I am generally socially impeded, especially in in-person situations, and I do not think I will ever be able to apply the skills, unless and until my status will be backed by history of employment.
I am already not looking for anything specific, apart from being the sort of stuff that I can do, and have dedicated more than a year now to specifically broadening my area of expertise and re-building my portfolio.
Kind of getting hopeless in this regard, especially with the bad things that happened to me recently, and which are very likely going to happen to me very soon.