AP In this May 21, 2015 file photo, members of a construction crew work at the site of the new Veterans Administration hospital complex, in Aurora, Colo.

Colorado’s economy is, by almost any measure, red hot.

Job growth, business formation and wages all are up. But even the most robust economy doesn’t serve everyone. Hidden in the averages are frustrated workers and companies.

Nancy Profera is one of them.

When asked ‘What do you do?’, Profera, a corporate communications writer and editor, responded with “what I’ve been doing the last six months is applying to jobs like crazy, and getting...I’ve had one bite.”

Ben Markus/CPR News Nancy Profera at her home in Denver.

That bite didn’t lead anywhere.

Profera moved here in 2017 from California and has been living on savings as she hunts for gainful employment.

She says it’s been frustrating just how impersonal the experience is these days. She had a job interview where questions flashed on her computer screen, and her responses were recorded through the camera.

There was no human on the other end. She didn’t make the next round of candidates. When she eventually got to a real life person, she asked how many got to the next stage, figuring it was between three and seven.

“They had done 20 people,” Profera said.

She admits to getting mired in, “well, maybe it’s my age, I’m 50, and they can see that, and you can’t hide that on your resume.”

But there’s something else she’s up against. Profera is, by official measures, a member of the long-term unemployed. Out of the workforce for 27 weeks or longer. Martin Shields, an economist with Colorado State University, said that research shows the longer people are out of work the harder it gets to find work.

“Your networks wash away, it’s hard to get back into the job market,” he said. “So there are some people, I think, that are still not finding the labor market to be welcoming them.”

And it should be the most welcoming job market ever. Employers rank the shortage of workers as their top concern in surveys. The state’s unemployment rate has been at or below 3 percent for almost two years now, one of the lowest rates in the nation.