I graduated in May with my associates degree, and sadly after applying a bit nothing, not even a reply email. I am convinced I am just unprepared for this industry, I will admit I don’t have a GitHub with 1 billion contributions, and a bunch of connections. but can I seriously get nothing. I can’t afford the 25K needed for my bachelors. I am honestly considering put in my applications to target or whatever and giving up.
I made a solid resume just I have no work expereince since I never really worked in high school due to my controlling dad. Other than that I do fill out the cover letter section is a very similar manner to what you said
From my experience, usually a lack of responses means the resume has some form of issue going on. Formatting, font choice, etc etc.
Resumes are largely automatically parsed by machines nowadays, so 99% of the filtering happens by code, not a human, which means you really wanna optimize the resume for being picked up by machines properly. It can be tricky.
Some people unironically copy paste the entire job posting into their resume in the smallest possible font, white color, to “hide” it in the resume, but it still gets picked up by automated machines and as a result floats their resumes up to the top. Something to consider researching.