A young Aussie who applied for nearly 100 jobs with no luck says she is now “giving up” caring. The job market is incredibly competitive right now, leaving many disheartened as they are unable to get a foot in the door.

Zoe Lo told Yahoo Finance she had been searching for a job for the past four months after her full-time contract as a cancer research assistant came to an end. Despite spending countless hours working on applications, she found herself being “ghosted and rejected” from the majority of jobs she applied for.

“I’ve been applying for jobs steadily. At the start, I was very stressed about finding something immediately so I was applying for a lot of jobs everyday,” the 24-year-old said.

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Lo, who graduated with a bachelor of marketing and physiology mid-last year, has been applying for marketing, including brand management, advertising and social media roles, along with corporate graduate programs after deciding she wanted to leave STEM.

“I know it is a process and takes a while, especially now that so many people are applying for jobs as well. But I didn’t expect to be out of a job for so long,” she said.

While Lo is still applying for jobs, albeit at a slower pace, she said that after months of applications and rejections, she had changed her mindset on the process. She is no longer constantly looking at job sites and said she didn’t care as much about the outcome of her applications.

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Lo said she is giving herself “grace” and accepting that the right opportunity will come when it’s the right time. But she also said her change in mindset doesn’t mean she isn’t putting in a lot of effort into her applications and interviews.

“I proved to myself that I am doing the work as I kept sending applications and as those companies took time to get back to me,” she told Yahoo Finance.

“Together that was proof that this will take some time, you’re doing the most that you can and that built up to having a mindset of letting go and being ok with whatever happens.”

The Sydney resident acknowledged she was privileged to live at home and was supported by her family until she finished university so was able to build up her savings.

“Financially, I’m still ok and I’m really grateful for that,” Lo said.