Here's Something I Don't Get...
...sometimes, HR people don't even bother reading the cover letters you've spent a good hour of your life composing, hoping that it'll wow them enough to get you into an interview.
So, they don't read the cover letter. They glance over your resume. And then they decide that maybe your qualifications don't match up to the demi-god-like creature they've got in mind.
The deadline comes and passes. They still have the job posting up --- but now they've extended their deadline by another couple of weeks.
Miracle of all miracles, you actually get a reply (!) instead of the cold silence that all job-seekers have come to expect as the weeks drag by --- like the Beatles's song, there's just "No Reply" 95% of the time. But, good God, some computer program has generated a rejection notice on behalf of the HR department this time around.
And you know what I can't help but wonder?
You spend upwards of $25,000 for an irregularly sized rectangular paper that says you've gone above and beyond the call of duty in terms of education and you've gone and got yourself one of those fancy degrees everybody says you need if you want a hope in hell of ever getting a good job.
You purchase yourself one of these degrees after slogging through four years of sleeping wide-eyed through boring lectures, forgetting all the info that's been thrown at you as soon as the exams are over, and you make it out in the "real world."
But surprise! You need experience --- often 3 to 5 years' worth.
All that's available is the menial kind of crap that a trained monkey can do.
And yeah, I totally get the fact that you're supposed to pay your dues, do this trained monkey work and climb up the corporate ladder just like everyone else has had to do --- well, everyone except for people who've landed their jobs because they knew somebody who knew somebody else. And from what I've read in a book called "Linked", that's pretty much how most people land their jobs these days. (It must also explain why a certain "entertainment reporter" with no discernable writing skills managed to snag a job watching TV and writing about it in Toronto's free commuter paper, found in subway stations everywhere --- but that's neither here nor there.)
If you look at most job postings, you KNOW that all that garbled gobbly-gook written up is just disguising the fact that it's something ANYBODY with the right kind of training can do.
And please --- EVERY job requires TRAINING.
So, what the hell? Why won't somebody just give you a fucking interview? Give you one fucking chance? Just to meet with them and let them see in person just what you're made of?
Especially if, after weeks of advertising, they still haven't managed to find someone and they feel compelled to extend the deadline?
Could someone please explain that to me?
It just gets me so angry 'cause I know I can do every single fucking thing that they've listed on that job ad, but they won't even give me a fucking chance. Instead, they expect some neurosurgeon or something to fill the spot.
So, they don't read the cover letter. They glance over your resume. And then they decide that maybe your qualifications don't match up to the demi-god-like creature they've got in mind.
The deadline comes and passes. They still have the job posting up --- but now they've extended their deadline by another couple of weeks.
Miracle of all miracles, you actually get a reply (!) instead of the cold silence that all job-seekers have come to expect as the weeks drag by --- like the Beatles's song, there's just "No Reply" 95% of the time. But, good God, some computer program has generated a rejection notice on behalf of the HR department this time around.
And you know what I can't help but wonder?
You spend upwards of $25,000 for an irregularly sized rectangular paper that says you've gone above and beyond the call of duty in terms of education and you've gone and got yourself one of those fancy degrees everybody says you need if you want a hope in hell of ever getting a good job.
You purchase yourself one of these degrees after slogging through four years of sleeping wide-eyed through boring lectures, forgetting all the info that's been thrown at you as soon as the exams are over, and you make it out in the "real world."
But surprise! You need experience --- often 3 to 5 years' worth.
All that's available is the menial kind of crap that a trained monkey can do.
And yeah, I totally get the fact that you're supposed to pay your dues, do this trained monkey work and climb up the corporate ladder just like everyone else has had to do --- well, everyone except for people who've landed their jobs because they knew somebody who knew somebody else. And from what I've read in a book called "Linked", that's pretty much how most people land their jobs these days. (It must also explain why a certain "entertainment reporter" with no discernable writing skills managed to snag a job watching TV and writing about it in Toronto's free commuter paper, found in subway stations everywhere --- but that's neither here nor there.)
If you look at most job postings, you KNOW that all that garbled gobbly-gook written up is just disguising the fact that it's something ANYBODY with the right kind of training can do.
And please --- EVERY job requires TRAINING.
So, what the hell? Why won't somebody just give you a fucking interview? Give you one fucking chance? Just to meet with them and let them see in person just what you're made of?
Especially if, after weeks of advertising, they still haven't managed to find someone and they feel compelled to extend the deadline?
Could someone please explain that to me?
It just gets me so angry 'cause I know I can do every single fucking thing that they've listed on that job ad, but they won't even give me a fucking chance. Instead, they expect some neurosurgeon or something to fill the spot.
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