Transplant note

Already an Australian account speaking to an Australian job seeker, and the premise — LinkedIn and Indeed applications disappearing into thousands of applicants — is exactly the volume-no-results pain our reader lives. The first fifteen seconds transplant verbatim. Nothing country-specific needs stripping; the problem is the payload, not the market.

Brand fit note

Only the hook survives. The opening is a clean contrarian inversion and names the exact belief our reader holds, but the mechanism is a third-party tool promotion that argues for MORE volume with AI-generated resumes and cover letters — the direct opposite of positioning, and close enough to misrepresentation (an AI writing your resume for you) to brush Never-ships #1. It also names an employer for borrowed credibility ('my friend who works at Meta') and makes an unverified outcome claim ('four interviews lined up' in two months) with no proof. Rebuild: keep 'you will never get a job if you only apply on LinkedIn or Indeed', then replace the tool with the real mechanism — direct hiring-manager outreach, with an Australian number attached (1,000+ applications, zero replies; 14 months of waiting).