I had all the qualifications, education requirements, job experience, and great references. I used 4 hours of my vacation time to meet for an interview in beautiful suit in the scorching August heat. I’m terribly exhausted with my current job and I don’t get paid shit to do it. So, of course, I didn’t get the job I applied for, even though $30k/year isn’t much for someone with their Master’s degree. They are “still looking for applicants”. Every god damned employer these days wants the President’s credentials for a secretary position. They can all get fucked 
Hang in there.
Sorry buddy. I’d go drinking with you, if I knew you.
Always makes me wonder just what magic combo of qualities/experience/payscale/etc they are actually looking for.
I suspect that sometimes, just sometimes mind you, they already know who they are hiring/reassigning/promoting but they are bound by some law or requirement to advertize and take applicants anyways. Could just be paranoia…
What I’ve seen is situations where they laid 3 people off back when they were downsizing (read: management screwed up and the budget is gone, so fire three underlings so we can survive the fiscal year), and now that they’ve gotten the budget figured out, they get to hire one person back. They take those 3 peoples’ job descriptions, shuffle them all together, delete the duplicate lines and voila! Instant job! Oh, it pays lower than each of the three guys that got fired, because new guy, so suck it up that you’re doing three peoples’ jobs for less pay.
A friend of mine put herself (nearly) through college working as a secretary, then she left college to get married and have kids and now she can’t get work because she didn’t graduate, because obviously you need a BA to be a secretary.
I’m sorry. I too just got a message back from a place I would have really wanted to work at with a big fat NO. Sigh.
Another common bit of motherfuckery by companies is that when a position comes open, they have an internal candidate already groomed and ready, but because of some sort of HR policies or EEOC rules or whatever, they have to go through the motions of putting it out for applications and at least interviewing a few candidates so they can say with honesty that the internal guy was best for the job.
So essentially they’re interviewing people with the intention of never hiring them.
At least you got an interview. HR departments seem to be totally unable to evaluate applicants for any sort of technical job these days.
My last two jobs were found via headhunter after HR had round filed my resume. Very expensive for the company to pay the headhunter commission, but maybe cheaper than paying a qualified in-house staffing expert.
Thanks folks, it does help knowing I’m not the only one. I did well in school, work hard at my job and go above and beyond and I have nothing to show for it. Still living in a studio apartment with barely enough room to turn around in. I can’t help but feel like I’m paying into a system and someone else is getting all my benefits. I mean, honestly, if fuck-all is what I’ll get anyway, why not just do shit work? Why did I bother getting a degree?
Can’t think like that! Gotta hang in there. We went to school (or back to school in my case) on the hopes of making a better life for ourselves. No matter how much we kid ourselves or hope it’s not going to happen in one fell swoop.
Have you listed yourself with headhunters? I am going to approach every. single. one in my area. Since I don’t have enough relevant experience i need to gain that first.
Anyway, feel free to bitch and moan and complain as much as you like, but keep hoping.
Also, don’t forget that just putting your name and qualifications out there can sometimes lead to something down the line. The company may reorganize, or one of the interviewers may move on, and may remember you when they are looking to fill a future position.
I have my current position because I interviewed for a different position years ago and after it came down to me and just one other person, I lost out. Six months later they decided to create a brand new (much more interesting) position and offered it to me.
I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you this time, and I hope something better comes along soon.
Because “AnthonyAverage” sounds lame.
Yes! My wife is astonishingly qualified to do administrative work for higher education, and has applied for several jobs. She has impeccable references and a great work history. But repeatedly she runs into this, where the job she blew away the interview for is given to the student intern who just graduated. It’s super-frustrating; if they’d at least tell her up front that she’s a beard for their internal candidate and that she has zero chance of getting the job, at least she wouldn’t waste her time or her hopes.
Can also be external candidates. I was recommended to a company by an employee who thought I be a good fit. Company flew me across the country for a day of interviews and made an offer at the end of the day. I was told to apply online in a few days when they posted the position.
I’ve been on the other side. I applied for one job where the desired qualifications could have been cut and pasted from my CV. I had 29.5 of 30 listed qualifications (the .5 being some specific computer software where I did have experience with another platform). Through LinkedIn, I found a friend-of-a-friend who said he emailed my CV directly to the person I would be working for. Heard absolutely nothing back. I’m pretty sure they already knew who they wanted to hire.
That’s what I was saying in post # 4
It’s not just paranoia… :eek:
There ya go!
Sometimes, they really are out to get ya
Yes, this is a horrible thing to do, and why HR should burn in Hell.
I remember when I used to get job interviews…
What do you do now?