Young applicants discuss the challenges of today's job search

For generations, young Americans have heard the same message: Go to college, get a job. But lately, young people are finding the job market to be terrible. Meghan Obetz of Philadelphia said, "It feels like once you graduate, you know, you're expecting things to just fall into place, and sometimes that's just really not the case." It definitely hasn't been the case for Obetz, or for Olivia Bennett in New York, Michael Sundheim in Minneapolis, and Daniel Fischer in Anchorage. They've recently graduated, but trying to find a job has been slow and frustrating, despite sending in hundreds of applications. "You know your résumé is getting thrown into a pile, and AI is basically sorting it through," said Obetz. Fischer said, "The last position that I interviewed for had 300 applicants." From left: Recent graduates Meghan Obetz, Daniel Fischer, Michael Sundheim and Olivia Bennett. CBS News "And you're not even hearing back," said Bennett. "You can't even get a rejection. You just submit into some kind of void." Sundheim said, "It gets to a point where you definitely feel defeated." Fischer says, as far as he can tell, no humans have been involved in the process: "It's plausible to me that this is some kind of elaborate psychological experiment that's being done on me and my classmates, to see, you know, how many applications they can get us to submit before we lose our minds!" "Measures of uncertainty" They're not imagining it. …