Why 2025 was hell for job hunters

This was one of the worst years for job seekers since the Great Recession. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images

There is no better window into the soul of America’s striving professional class than LinkedIn, a site that this year often seemed less like a networking platform than an extended group therapy session. 

To doomscroll through it was to encounter one post after another about the barren landscape for job hunters — laments about resumes silently filtered out by AI-powered gatekeepers and...