He applied to 200 jobs out of UC Davis with a close-to-perfect GPA. He got rejected all 200 times. Meanwhile LinkedIn is absorbing 11,000 applications a minute, up 45% in a single year. Both facts trace back to the same collapse. For 70 years, a résumé carried a hidden second piece of information. Effort. Tailoring an application took real time, so the act of applying told an employer this person read the posting, wanted the role, and spent an evening proving it. Hiring managers were reading…