Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?

I've also noticed that people have been discriminating against Indians. It's almost like there's a green card to voice anger against. I don't hear about it in London/UK, but in places like Lisbon in Portugal and USA, people are just shameless. The H-1B news had some of the most hateful comments imaginable.

You seem to have a good skill set and experience, but the text is hard to read. You can improve it! Maybe design the CV a bit differently. Don't be shy about sharing who you really are. Nowadays, most job opportunities are shared on Twitter or X, where people showcase their capabilities and stories. I understand that sharing sensitive information is difficult, especially due to your illness, which I hope you recover from. But it's good to bring some projects to life and talk about them publicly.

Once you get interviews, you'll notice a pattern where HR, HM are cancelling last minute, stop hiring for the position suddenly, or simply ghost. Or, when rejecting, don't provide constructive feedback. So, be mindful of the time you invest in preparing for these interviews.

Good luck and hope you find a job soon!

I will go through it very very carefully!

Third-party AI interference has made everything worse through the imposition of cost on everyone. (Fraudulent Ghost jobs/Candidates tortuously interfering)

There are some things you can do with your CV but the major issue is in getting through the door and talking to someone. Most places have outsourced their HR departments to AI, and the problem with that is the black-box nature of weights may be (and probably is) discriminating against protected classes.

The CV to cold call ratio has gone from 1 in 100 to 1>1500. You may get lucky if you somehow manage to find a place that has a process that ignores this and goes physical. Some are going back to this now.

With that said, the gap in time isn't going to help. There aren't a lot of jobs.

If you continue to see poor callback ratios, first verify your phone is working properly. In many places too, calling service reliability has degraded without people realizing it.

You'll need to arrange to test your phone like any call center would.

One regular timed call, one regular text message, twice daily with a 5-10 minute delay threshold on the texts and voicemails. Also one randomized call from a random external number.

Test voicemail as well. Calling has been failing for some people in the part of the failure domain that is interrupt driven (the part where you never know you missed a call), and the voicemails may not show up for days to weeks.

I've heard from others and seen this myself on both AT&T, Verizon, and third-party VOIP-based networks. Its a real problem that is absolutely crazy-making. Tickets get opened, 30 days later closed without resolution or explanation. Its been an ongoing problem for at least a year and a half now and we regularly see calls dropping/being degraded on a non-insignificant count on weekly basis.

If you can't find work in your given profession, you may need to look at retraining to other work. Usually 2 years is more than sufficient time before making this choice. Its horrible to have to make a choice like that but that is what happens when you have coordinated layoffs in an oligopoly industrial environment.

Competent people naturally have options and go where their efforts are rewarded economically.