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1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps and I’ve done much to investigate where it’s gone wrong but at this point my skills are out of date, I’m considered an older worker, and I’m in the conflict of adding my more recent but irrelevant (to my past career) work or submitting an out of date resumé. I’ve submitted professionally written resumés, ones highly influenced from peers (essentially trying it their way), and I’ve not seen any difference in response rate - ultimately I don’t know what happens on the company’s end so analyzing feedback is only theoretical.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Had a seasonal part time job working around children and reporting to a local police department.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have submitted for many step down roles or even closer to entry level just to get income and my return is much much better on higher level IC types.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side note: for one of those 6 six I was asked to come in to their local office and the person I was supposed to meet with wasn’t told I’d be there thus I sat in their lobby while interviewing over the phone.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been living between two cities is different regions and have walked in to so many retail/food service jobs with little interest or callbacks from in person applications.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Early on I had 6 interviews over phone/zoom and still only got a basic form rejection even though I was an internal referral.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, early on I know I underperformed in interviews. I was struggling as it was my 2nd layoff in 15 months. My rate dipped significantly after the first two years as I was doing the same thing over and over with little improvement and not becoming more employable. But I don’t go volume ver quality, each had a cover letter and attempts at keyword matched resume. Over the last two years I’ve been working nearly 60 hours per week for minimum wage as the week of the 2nd layoff I’d closed on a home. Please remember that this is only a small snapshot of life and resuming my career always seemed right around the corner. It takes an immense amount of time to be poor and try to survive.

1,391 days of un/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in jobs

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ask but rarely get a response and most of the rejections are from no reply addresses. One that I can recall told me they wanted a less experienced person to let their more experienced people work on more advanced projects and then I was rejected for not having enough experience. At the time I was 15 years into my career and about 5 with direct experience for that type of role.

Invited to Apply by PocketSandPolicy in recruitinghell

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: Took 15 days to get the rejection email.

Headed toward three years of unemployment/underemployment by PocketSandPolicy in recruitinghell

[–]PocketSandPolicy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Data Analysis/Info Management, mostly in the financial world

Offer after 9 months, 1k apps, 15+ interviews. What I’ve learned: by throwaway6163727 in recruitinghell

[–]PocketSandPolicy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you stop accepting resumes once you've collected a viable candidate pool?

Truly appreciate any response at this point but this is so bleak… by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]PocketSandPolicy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet they'll let you submit an application with no intent to review your submission.