The job market I don't know it's hard to say entirely what is oneself and skillset (although frankly my work record reads quite decent IMO, however skills might not be that much demanded shrug, of they may be oversupplied), what is location (I don't even know if other locations are better), what is the job market in general these days, what is just random bad luck (fooled by randomness style). But I suspect the economy is not really what we are being told it is for sure!
I was in a group for unemployed people seeking professional jobs. There was struggle for sure. And frankly struggle for people with what I would think were great credentials (I would think for sure I'd get hired if I had those credentials - but ...).But getting a professional job? There is a ton of temp and contract work, with very few permanent hires.
So one thing I actually can say FOR SURE is having a real struggle finding professional jobs was NOT JUST ME. Some landed, but I'm not the only one contracting, some took temp work, some are still looking. The person working at the local unemployment office said it's taking people 6 months to a year to get a job these days (and unemployment only lasts 6 months, yea a lot of people in a world of hurt - anyone who tells you you only need 3-6 months saved for unemployment is blowing smoke up your @#$). The job market for professional skills may be broken, really and truly. Meanwhile low paid jobs don't pay enough to live off of.
What it was like for me was employers were almost expecting something magical, they weren't even looking for skillsets and decent experience, they were almost looking for life paths, someone who had done a lot of things that were exactly what they were looking for that are seldom even found together. I got interviews when I hit magic buttons like this. It was completely an employers market where the standard seemed to be perfection and employers were almost like people going on dates rejecting everything (no second dates) until love at first sight was found.
I lack the words to describe the crazy, at a certain level of crazy I think all one can do is walk away, try another career, something. Not that there were many options there (there didn't seem to be any I could access almost), but trying to make sense of the crazy just became crazy itself.