I think a lot of people feel this way, and it’s something I’ve experienced. I don’t have any great solutions but I generally do two things:
Set reasonable expectations. The application process has a lot of randomness, and almost all applications will get ignored even if they’re good, so I should expect any particular application to have a very low chance of getting a response.
Spend less time on individual applications; apply to a lot of things; use commonalities across applications to copy/paste things I wrote on previous applications.
I think a lot of people feel this way, and it’s something I’ve experienced. I don’t have any great solutions but I generally do two things:
Set reasonable expectations. The application process has a lot of randomness, and almost all applications will get ignored even if they’re good, so I should expect any particular application to have a very low chance of getting a response.
Spend less time on individual applications; apply to a lot of things; use commonalities across applications to copy/paste things I wrote on previous applications.