Not as bad as now though. I graduated a little earlier than you and I didn’t have to reach out to apply for the 3 jobs I had over the first 7 years of my career. I’ve been with my current company since then and it went the same way. It was always a recruiter who reached out with a legit job opening and I didn’t have any connections with those companies. I even turned down the 3rd job initially and they called me back a year later with a better offer.