Comment by gerdesj

"My success rate from me reaching out to an actual offer was about 3 %"

Back in the olden days that hit rate would have seemed quite normal. I can remember mailing (mail not email) 20-100 letters with CVs for job applications. Each covering letter was hand signed and some were personalised for the target. Each envelope would have had something like a 30p stamp on it and running my printer was rather more expensive and slower than now.

That was the early 1990s in the UK.

[Edit: grammar]