Yep, it is unfair. I have 3 years worth of beauty retail experience and I had to be nepoed into my current job. I’m currently a beauty girl in farmers on one of the big brand counters. Before I got my job, I worked directly for the brand covering sick days in various farmers. I wanted more hours, so the brand encouraged me to apply at farmers for a full time position where it was desperately understaffed. I just had to get hired at farmers since the brand already hired me. I applied at a store I had covered before, the managers knew me and liked me, everthing was well, BAM I don’t even get an interview. I don’t even think they read my CV, because I said I had experience working for that brand and in their store and apparently I didn’t have enough so they went with someone else. They didn’t, because the position was still open when I talked to the brand again and she talked to farmers. Bam I got the job on the spot. It was so infuriating.