When do job markets tend to recover from recessions?

As a Gen Z, have 0 knowledge on job markets of the past. And after reading a lot of posts and comments here from 2010-2012 talking about the job market being shit then, I wondered how long it usually takes for the job market to recover to pre-recession levels.

I know it's case dependent so can anyone answer when the capital market job market recovered from the past 2 recent recessions?

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