AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - The job application got faster. The job search got worse.
Job hunting in 2026 can mean chatting with a robot, getting rejected by AI, encountering ghost jobs and competing with a flood of applicants. Why it matters: This isn't just candidates venting on LinkedIn or TikTok . The hiring process is increasingly taking longer and application apathy could be eroding trust in America's job market . What they're saying: "I think burnout is absolutely happening," Gorick Ng, a Harvard career advisor and UC Berkeley faculty member, tells Axios. - "We've moved past the ordinary job search burnout into systemic cynicism," he says. - "Candidates assume that every posting is fake and every rejection is automated, and that their video-recorded interview won't ever even be touched, and so there's been this…