Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?

I've just talked to a guy who started a recruiting agency in Moscow last November just b/c the industry is thriving. The salaries are high. According to his assessments this market will be high during the next 2+ years.

Also he's been interviewing some Russian-speaking candidates willing to relocate from the US, Israel and Germany. Among the candidates are Russians who have been living there for 15 years. Their reasons to leave: bad attitude towards Russians at all levels, unwillingness to pay taxes that are used for war against Russia, lack of actual freedom of speech, and LGBT propaganda starting from 1st grade elementary.

Regarding quality of life here, for instance, even a PHP mid can get around 280-320k RUB/month net. Head of arch can get 1200k. And 300-400k RUB/month even in Moscow has greater purchasing power than 5-7k EUR/month net in, say, Munich. Plus, long-term prospects, stable economy, healthy food, high-quality affordable internet, good and cheap public transit, instant person to person money transfers, great digital government services, strong combat-proven army with best in the world air defense etc and beautiful women…

Given the recent "treatment" from recruiters, I'm inspired to start something like a Glassdoor but for individual recruiters.

There's far too many recruiters (internal and agency) that behave poorly and or act unethically.

All of this sounds disjointed. Employers saying they can't handle the influx of applications, while job seekers say I've applied, followed through, matched all the keywords and still got rejected. I will give you that 1-3 times is probably normal, heck! 12 is probably pretty relatable. But how about 300? Because my wife has applied to 300 plus jobs since may 2023, when she was laid off in a RIF(Reduction in Force) She works in marketing and has been in data cloud marketing since its inception. she has been rejected from numerous jobs, even ones she's interviewed with, and even ones where she has received referrals from people who both work at the company, or work with the company. So, someone explain, how a company that is supposedly slammed with resumes and applications, gets a person cherry picked for the position they are offering and still doesn't get it. And you can say she didn't interview well, but most say they are rejecting for job history (her last 3 jobs were all start ups that either were bought out or tanked due to low market share and marketing and sales were always the first to get let go). So, somebody make it make sense!