job rant!!! ( i cant get one!!) anyone in the same situation?

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Jodie M

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hi, this is a little rant over not being able to find a job and if anyone is in the same situation... i have applied to sooo many over the past month and have only had a whole 2 interviews. The biggest annoying thing is the online application forms, it takes about an hour to fill them in and in about 2 hours i get an email back saying "sorry you are not what we are looking for" (well how would you know when your questions are pointless!!)

is anyone else struggling to find a job and getting annoyed with these! because i am!!

i loved to hear your stories as im losing the will to live filling out these applications!!

Jodie
 
Yes! It's hard to put up with these employers sometimes. I've been looking since the end of March.
Had a phone interview Monday with a HR person. We went line by line down what the qualifications where for the job. I met or exceed every item listed for the job qualifications. I'm 100% qualified. So she said, "I'll send you paperwork over to the hiring manager". Wednesday I get a email from HR stating that they are looking for someone more closely meeting their job qualifications and will not be interviewing me. I'm thinking WHAT! How can you get any closer? Most likely it was a job for an internal hire that they posted to stay legal. You'll find that about 80% of jobs posted on these internet sights are for internal hires and they never intended to hire from the outside.
 
Yep. The economy sucks. Nobody is hiring. The competition is fierce...a ton of people are out of work.
And I hate filling out a friggin' job application...most of them are ridiculously useless.
 
there are 15 million other unemployed people out there - I have suffered job losses thru several recessions in teh past 30 yrs - this is the first one I have survived - sign up for temp work if it is available in your desired field and look for an evening/weekend part time job
 
Hi, been out of work since March 5th, 25 years experienced executive assistant and no job yet! I have sent in literally 1000's of resumes, have received about 3 phone calls for interviews, Great, they are only paying $10.00/hour. This is so frustrating, how do these companies think people, especially single people are suppose to live on less than $400 a week! So after much turmoil, I bit the bullet and went back to school for my associates degree in Health Care. I figured that there will always be sick people in the world!

Good luck, try to keep positive!
 
Bitter truth - If you are getting the rejection within couple of hours of applying then you are not doing a great job of matching your skill set to the desired skills.

I had to apply for close to two hundred jobs, most of these resulted in rejections, but these rejections came after some time. Sometimes I was lucky to get to the 3rd or even 4th stage of the process, then got rejected. I learned from these rejections and found areas to improve and worked on them.

I have recently accepted best out of three offered graduate jobs.

It might sound patronising but the job market is not all that gloomy, one just needs to adjust accordingly.

Good Luck!
 
Yes! It's hard to put up with these employers sometimes. I've been looking since the end of March.
Had a phone interview Monday with a HR person. We went line by line down what the qualifications where for the job. I met or exceed every item listed for the job qualifications. I'm 100% qualified. So she said, "I'll send you paperwork over to the hiring manager". Wednesday I get a email from HR stating that they are looking for someone more closely meeting their job qualifications and will not be interviewing me. I'm thinking WHAT! How can you get any closer? Most likely it was a job for an internal hire that they posted to stay legal. You'll find that about 80% of jobs posted on these internet sights are for internal hires and they never intended to hire from the outside.
 
Yes! It's hard to put up with these employers sometimes. I've been looking since the end of March.
Had a phone interview Monday with a HR person. We went line by line down what the qualifications where for the job. I met or exceed every item listed for the job qualifications. I'm 100% qualified. So she said, "I'll send you paperwork over to the hiring manager". Wednesday I get a email from HR stating that they are looking for someone more closely meeting their job qualifications and will not be interviewing me. I'm thinking WHAT! How can you get any closer? Most likely it was a job for an internal hire that they posted to stay legal. You'll find that about 80% of jobs posted on these internet sights are for internal hires and they never intended to hire from the outside.
 
I am in a horrible area where the spvsr and co worker chat all day and I mean that- but I do have a job...good luck- hope you find something soon.
 
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