議員に就職口の世話を頼んでみたが鼻であしらわれた。
I asked my local member for a job, but he brushed me off.

近頃は就職難だ。
Nowadays jobs are hard to come by.

「修飾語」は、その名前のとおり、文を飾る役目をします。
A "modifier" has, just as it sounds, the role of embellishing sentences.

就職活動の時期は早まる傾向にあり、マスコミ各社の面接がその先頭にたっている。
The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it's the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.