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Post by raindancer on Mar 23, 2016 1:16:51 GMT
Haha. You can't send me an email literally three minutes after I apply for a job and say you carefully considered my resumebut I do not meet your needs at this time I applied for a job that required more experience than I have but it's been open for a long time so I figured it wouldn't hurt. Clearly their software kicked it back as a result of my response, because otherwise I am highly qualified. But the 3 min. Response time tickled my funny bone.  |
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Post by annabella on Mar 23, 2016 1:35:59 GMT
Same thing happened to me. I thought it was because they were a small company and someone actually looked at it immediately.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Mar 23, 2016 2:20:09 GMT
Ha I had that happen for a job I was incredibly qualified for.... I decided I was over qualified... 3 minutes... gee thanks for the consideration!
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Post by raindancer on Mar 23, 2016 2:35:48 GMT
Ha I had that happen for a job I was incredibly qualified for.... I decided I was over qualified... 3 minutes... gee thanks for the consideration! That's nuts. I wonder what triggered the auto dump? My husband says this is why you need people to forward the resume and put in a word for you. |
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Post by perumbula on Mar 23, 2016 3:25:16 GMT
I got a rejection letter for a job once that said they had gone with someone "whose goals more closely aligned with their needs." One, they had never interviewed me and had no clue what my goals were. Two, they hired a teenager who was leaving in four months for college. So basically their goals for the job were they wanted to have to hire someone again in four months??? I hope you find a great job soon. |
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Mar 23, 2016 21:45:36 GMT
Ha I had that happen for a job I was incredibly qualified for.... I decided I was over qualified... 3 minutes... gee thanks for the consideration! That's nuts. I wonder what triggered the auto dump? My husband says this is why you need people to forward the resume and put in a word for you. I even tried to reapply using a different email... and got the same response. It was odd. |
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Post by peasapie on Mar 23, 2016 21:51:04 GMT
Sounds like they already hired someone and haven't deleted the ad yet.
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Post by maurchclt on Mar 23, 2016 22:05:53 GMT
Blah!! Glad you could laugh about it.
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Post by mallie on Mar 23, 2016 22:10:38 GMT
I think that's better than never hearing anything at all, which seems to be the new normal.
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Post by mallie on Mar 23, 2016 22:18:20 GMT
Ha I had that happen for a job I was incredibly qualified for.... I decided I was over qualified... 3 minutes... gee thanks for the consideration! That's nuts. I wonder what triggered the auto dump? My husband says this is why you need people to forward the resume and put in a word for you. My husband is a name in his field and has lots of contacts. He tried using those contacts to forward resumes for jobs for which he is highly qualified and still hears nothing. Not even an acknowledgement of receiving the resume. To say nothing of the radio silence after an interview. The people who forwarded his resume have contacted those organizations and been told that only 5-6 people applied for each of those jobs but that "it's too much trouble" to respond to those 5-6 applicants or let the 2 people interviewd know they didn't get the job or the job isn't being filled. *Over and over, it's an internal hire with no intention of using the resumes submitted except - according to his recruiter -for the organization to dicker down the salary of the internal hire. Or there is never ANY hire at all, which the recruiter says is becoming more common as organizations use the hiring process to determine if they can actually afford to hire someone -- they pretend to have a job opening, but are really using the resume gathering process to gather information on salary ranges for some future.) |
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Post by annabella on Mar 23, 2016 22:19:44 GMT
Over and over, it's an internal hire with no intention of using the resumes submitted except (according to his recruiter) for the organization to dicker down the salary of the internal hire. Or there is never ANY hire at all, which the recruiter says is becoming more common as organizations use the hiring process to determine if they can actually afford to hire someone -- they pretend to have a job opening, but are really using the resume gathering process to gather information on salary ranges for some future. Wow interesting! I never give my salary when applying to jobs. I think they're catching on to this because some forms don't allow me to enter $0 for the salary. |
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Post by mallie on Mar 23, 2016 22:21:17 GMT
Over and over, it's an internal hire with no intention of using the resumes submitted except (according to his recruiter) for the organization to dicker down the salary of the internal hire. Or there is never ANY hire at all, which the recruiter says is becoming more common as organizations use the hiring process to determine if they can actually afford to hire someone -- they pretend to have a job opening, but are really using the resume gathering process to gather information on salary ranges for some future. Wow interesting! I never give my salary when applying to jobs. I think they're catching on to this because some forms don't allow me to enter $0 for the salary. ALL of the jobs my husband has applied for will not accept the application without salary information. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 22:27:42 GMT
Ugh. That's why I'm terrified of looking for a new job. As of right now, thank God, I have a great job and my employers are happy with me. I've worked my way to the position I'm in over the last 20 years. I could not meet the requirements today because of the "minimums". So, in all likelihood, my resume submissions would be rejected out of hand by the robots that receive these things in many companies.
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Post by raindancer on Mar 24, 2016 2:00:55 GMT
Ugh. That's why I'm terrified of looking for a new job. As of right now, thank God, I have a great job and my employers are happy with me. I've worked my way to the position I'm in over the last 20 years. I could not meet the requirements today because of the "minimums". So, in all likelihood, my resume submissions would be rejected out of hand by the robots that receive these things in many companies. My issue is that they have a minimum education requirement (which I exceed) with a min. Number of years experience. Or they want a specific certification that requires 5 years of experience (or 3 and a master's degree) to sit for and 10 years experience or something and they want to pay squat for that person. I feel like emailing them and saying you will not fill this job at that salary--it's entry level salary and it's insulting. But I think that in my field people genuinely do not understand what we donor the level of education that is required. |
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Post by stampinbetsy on Mar 24, 2016 13:45:06 GMT
Ugh. That's why I'm terrified of looking for a new job. As of right now, thank God, I have a great job and my employers are happy with me. I've worked my way to the position I'm in over the last 20 years. I could not meet the requirements today because of the "minimums". So, in all likelihood, my resume submissions would be rejected out of hand by the robots that receive these things in many companies. My issue is that they have a minimum education requirement (which I exceed) with a min. Number of years experience. Or they want a specific certification that requires 5 years of experience (or 3 and a master's degree) to sit for and 10 years experience or something and they want to pay squat for that person. I feel like emailing them and saying you will not fill this job at that salary--it's entry level salary and it's insulting. But I think that in my field people genuinely do not understand what we donor the level of education that is required. That happened to my dh quite a few years ago. He's a software engineer, and when he interviewed for his current job, he came out of it with a weird vibe. First, one of the interviewers just wasn't nice at all, and then he felt like they wanted senior programmer skills but only offered junior programmer pay. The recruiter he got the interview through was so mad because he wasn't the first person he'd sent to interview that got treated the way dh did. Then it turned out they wanted him -badly. He was on interviews the next day and the company kept calling the recruiter to see if they'd heard from him! |
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Post by annabella on Mar 26, 2016 20:26:18 GMT
Just got this email:
Thank you for your interest in employment with the XYZ. At this time, it has been determined to close the XYZ position and not move forward with filling this role.
But another company I interviewed with asked for the dates of my other interviews. I thought that a weird question. Am I the front runner for that position and they want to get before then?
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Post by M in Carolina on Mar 26, 2016 22:36:12 GMT
I hate that so many companies use computers and keywords to decide on what resumes to send to human reviewers. You have to use lists of keywords in your resume to keep from being kicked out.
When I was working for my dad, he had me read through the resumes to cull out the bad ones. Poor spelling and grammar and horrible email addresses--XXxxhotfoxybabexxXX@yahoo.com XOxojenniecutiexoXO@aol.com were way too common. An office manager/bookkeeper should have at least high school level spelling and grammar. The resumes didn't have to be perfect, but the amount of bad spelling and worse grammar was shocking. I know this isn't your issue--you have great spelling and grammar even on this informal message board.
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 26, 2016 22:59:51 GMT
Oh after two rounds of applying and interviewing.... nothing shocks me anymore.. my head just spins now when applying for a job... Something as dumb as applying to be a cashier (for something part time) and having to fill out 10 pages of crap... HELLO people I would just like to cashier part time.. not run the company. Other jobs, the automatic replies.. uggggg...
Most of mine want salary information. Probably 80%...and I see it more and more... I was making really good money when I got laid off (My boss retired and job phased out).. so I knew I wouldn't get paid the same... two years later and back in the market, I was doing an interview and we were talking salary and I said up front, I understand I was getting paid more than the typical assistant.. she looked it up in her book and said "oh no, you are right in line with what we want, she said don't undercut yourself"... UMMM really lady there hasn't been ONE single job opportunity in all the jobs I have applied for that will even come close to what I was making... I still haven't heard back from that company... lol
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Post by Karmady on Mar 26, 2016 23:33:53 GMT
These are funny.
What cracks me up is when big companies want multiple interviews for minimum wage jobs. Hello Target Canada? They interviewed my 16 year old dd three times with different levels of management. She did eventually get the job. My friend's dd was interviewed 3 times by Tim Horton's and didn't get the job. She's making coffee and serving donuts. Seriously overkill and a waste of time.
At one point, I worked for a company that put us on contract and then opened our jobs up for competition. I had to spend my weekend writing a program to present (with props) and make a presentation at a one hour interview. Half way through the interview, they gave me more props for an impromptu presentation. That would never happen while doing that job. After my hour, they told me that I had a one hour exam? WTH? The job didn't pay well and I had been doing it for 6 years!!! They didn't hire me for that job but kept me on contract. They wanted me to train the new people to take my job!!
Thankfully, I found a much better job that pays way more and they treat me (and everyone else) really well.
Good luck with your search.
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