Low Response Rates to Emails Recently?

FT analyst trying to lateral right now, and it seems like my cold email response rate is abysmal, even worse than when I was recruiting for SA. I get there has been a lot of layoffs recently and there are a bunch of people scrambling for seats, but it seems like no one is even willing to talk to me. I have a good resume and I know my emails are written well (concise, slightly personalized). Anyone else experiencing this?

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Honestly days have been longer than ever at least at my group, but speaking to friends it seems to be a trend. People likely just don't have the bandwidth to respond to anything right now, would try other avenues of getting interviews or in front of people

 

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