I think you're missing a big part of the problem. The way I see it there are two categories of jobs -- qualified and not:

The qualified jobs require you to have education and a few years of experience, not just in that type of job in general, but in that exact version of the job, in that particular sector, working specifically with these exact administrative tools and according to this specific lettercombination-process, and that you also have experience with exactly all of these other concepts/buzzwords. It doesn't matter if they're meaningless in practice, or if a competent employee could learn them quickly. You need to be a perfect match in every way.

The unqualified jobs on the other hand, they require you to be totally desperate so that you can be maximally exploited. The IQ tests are used to find people who are exactly as "intelligent" as is needed, but not more, and the personality tests are for finding people who don't think too much for themselves and can be pressured into working extremely hard. The entire process is arduous and humiliating in order to filter out those with better alternatives, so that you can hire cheap and squeeze out the most value.

There's no point to me moving somewhere else. There are plenty of jobs here with specific requirements which I do not meet -- regardless of the fact that I could do several of them well (after a few months) -- because I don't know every specific detail about how to do exactly everything in that job even before I've applied for it. And the other jobs, those who "anyone could do", there are also plenty here, and I've applied for them (including factory workers for the defense industry), but they won't hire me because they know that I'll get a better paying job sooner or later, so they don't want to "spend money" teaching me, despite the fact that I have worked assembly lines in the past and I learn quickly.

One of the few jobs that actually contacted me was specifically for assembling rifle scopes. The recruiter was very happy that I was willing to work with weapons -- but the business only wanted to hire people who would stay with the company for at least five years! I'm happy to work in a factory, but yeah I will most likely find that ultra-specific matching job in a year or so, and before five years have passed I will have switched employer at least once more for reasonable raise and carrier development (since loyalty isn't rewarded any longer).

But it seems highly sub-optimal for me and so many other people to go unemployed for so long, while businesses are "in desperate need" for all that time. We'd certainly be able to learn the job during that time. It would be better if the government and businesses cooperated with some kind of apprenticeship. People could start off keeping their unemployment and/or welfare benefits and "work" for free while learning, then as they learn to do the job better, the unemployment and welfare benefits are lowered while the business raises the wages they pay. Should be a win-win-win situation.