Job hunt update: Actual contact! A rejection!
Grafwritah
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I just about shit myself when I got a form e-mail rejection from a bank today.I've kept my resume submissions to either jobs I thought I might marginally enjoy or fit my previous experience, and given the current job market in general that has made for only 2 or 3 submissions a week. In that light, it's not like I've sent out hundreds or anything.BUTIt's the first reply I've gotten from any of them.I could be wrong, but I think this means I got past an automated scanner and a real person actual glanced at it.It's a sad time when rejection = excitement.
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I remember that feeling a few years ago when I first got out of school. I couldn't even get a job at a grocery store and I had been a manager at one in high school. Shit was rough. I can't imagine what it is like now.
I had the same problem a few years back when I got my bachelor's degree. Then, unlike now, I would have probably an interview a month and get shot down every time.
And yes I think about that and I'm like... hmmmm... this could take a while.
Which is also funny because I really am not a fan of working the 9-5 office shit, but gotta pay bills so......
Working at a Payday loan place is the perfect juxtaposition of really awful pay, dangerous environment, and borderline moral ground.
I never interviewed anywhere I thought was really atrocious, although some I interviewed at and thought it would really blow. One I had a few phone interviews for was a b2b inside sales job which was 100% phone sales in a cubicle; the other was an executive recruiter job that was 100% phone work in a cubicle.
Oh and I had one that was some cheesy marketing place that gave me the feeling the whole business was (figuratively) put together with duct tape.
hahaha, you sound like you worked at one. I didn't even know that is what it was and I was driving around looking for this address and here it was this hideous giant yellow former fast food joint turned into a pay day loan place. It took me a good 20 minutes to find it even though I was looking right at it. My mind could not comprehend that was the place.
"we think you are over qualified"
"we will put you right back on file--on top of the list when we are hiring again"
"we will contact you either way"
In hindsight, he was probably doing me a favor.
How is anyone with more than one arm "underqualified" to wait tables??
After a year of bouncing from job to job I finally landed at one that was a perfect fit.
I am thankful the 2 jobs I am working today. Good luck out there, I know it wasn't easy during the good times I can't even imagine what its like out there right now.
Feeling this. I've only received a handful of rejection emails, but I appreciated every one of them.
After 75 applications, I had my first interview today. It was just a screener with the recruiter, but even that felt like a victory.
fusk this schitt.
When I moved to SD I was temping and then I got an interview at some internet entertainment start-up and I got there and it was totally a video sex website. I sat in a cubicle with a girl who was "chatting" online and she was trying to explain to me how it wasn't what it looked like while these messages kept popping up on her screen "Show me your tits" or "Touch your pu**y" and I peaced out shortly after feeling VERY LOW about life at that moment.
That said, nurses and special ed teachers are still in high demand if you have a big heart and don't mind going back to school.
How long have you been applying?
I got laid off at the end of February, and as soon as I got home, I started applying to any position online that was anywhere close to my field of environmental chemistry.
A couple of weeks went by. No phone calls, no interviews, nothing else.
After about 2 1/2 weeks, I contacted a former employer of mine before my severance package ended and got an offer the next day. It really does pay not to burn your bridges. I was very lucky.
During my second week of work I received the only reply to any of the applications and resumes I sent online: a seemingly automated email offer (generated from Monster) for a job 3 1/2 hours away.
It's tough out there, I hope you find something soon.
John
Really?
Do people really get jobs through that shit?
Since the end of February.
As I said I've been trying but I haven't been applying to anything; I've applied to things that somewhat fit or I think I might like. Which given the current climate is only a couple a week.
Haven't start applying to sales positions at car dealerships or to "Start your own insurance office!" ads yet. Ha.
I got my last job through there. Or Careerbuilder. One of those.
THANK YOU
I still love you
I always think, yeah, that's gonna work.
If I'm going to do that I might as well go all out with the hand-written cardboard sign pacing up and down the sidewalk.
I'm pretty sure the field I want to work in, Im just kinda building contacts and doing people favors to get some face time. Trying to think outside the box cause I know im not getting past recruiter screeners.
OK. I'm a little biased after just reading this:
While I have not read this, I saw an interview with the author regarding her 'Nickel and Dimed' book, and I have to say, she struck me as someone who has an axe to grind with "the American Dream". Seems to have a pre-supposed idea that she sets out to prove, as opposed to objectively examining.
My wife had to read Nickel and Dimed for a grad level class and she thought it was crap. Like people don't know it sucks to clean houses and wait tables to make ends meet. I think 'axe to grind' sums up her approach pretty well.
The world is full of overpriveledged folks that are oblivious to the fact that there are a lot of people who serve them daily who are teetering on the edge of homelessness/insolvency.
Yeah, I guess they need someone like themselves to break the news.