Don't Know What to Do

This recruitment cycle was brutal. I made it to a number of superdays but nothing came out of it.

I was also networking a bunch with this one group but I did not receive an interview.

What should my next steps be? Should I take a gap year and re-recruit FT when the market is hopefully better?

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