After wasting some weeks answering messages on LinkedIn, I contacted the recruiter who got me my previous job, did one interview, got an offer from them the next day, an offer I’ll probably accept.
Previous time I had to choose between 4 offers.
I found the current job through a friend, it sucks and less than a year later I’m leaving.
Contact a professional.
A professional may help, but I’m inclined to tap personal contacts if ever I’m in the market for new work again. Playing the system more than a decade ago felt a little as though I were folding my resumes into paper airplanes and flying them into a bonfire. Zero acknowledgement of receipt from hundreds of applications, many of which kept the listing up for weeks or months afterward - one which did so after I attended a group interview where I felt that at least two others were shoe-ins by virtue of being much more experienced than I was.
I can’t say for certain what’s been happening in corporate HR departments, but I’ve heard and read similar experiences since then, and the situation doesn’t seem to improve/worsen depending on the economy/overall labour market. I’ll be fucked if I’m going to waste the time again with online application portals though, at least not without someone playing point-guard for me, you’re right.
Well of course all of this depends on a lot of factors that may be different for each person reading these comments, but in my experience, recruiting companies get paid only if you’re hired and remain at the company for at least a few months (I’ve seen 6 usually), so it’s in their interest to find a good fit.
And when I was on the on employer side, we paid a fee that was proportional to the hired person’s wage, so they of course tried to get as high a wage as possible.BTW I’m not suggesting you just answer job offers or such, what I meant is you should contact a recruiter directly and tell them you’re looking for new employment. Of course they’re not all good, unfortunately.
Solid advice, I’ll keep it in mind for the next time.
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Hell i get replies two weeks into the next job
I got one six months into the next job
Another, I got a reply fifteen years later
Nice
For the movie Into great silence, the director contacted the monastery to propose the idea for a movie about the monks in 1984. They said they needed to think about it.
In 1996 they called him back saying that they were willing to do it!
Confirmed! Had to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Great_Silence
Now I want to watch this documentary. Thanks for the perhaps unwilling indirect suggestion.
I think I should warn you, it’s a 3h documentary about monks who committed to a vow of silence. There is no voiceover and no extra music, only the sounds recorded in the monastery.
So as the title said the movie is mostly … silent.
It’s an experience, a bit hard to get into but I think it’s the best way to experience and understand what their life is like.
I don’t know how to describe it but at one point there is a monk cutting a thick wool fabric and the just the sound of the scissors cutting through is memorable.
Thanks!
I’m into meditation, though. Being hours in silence is my thing. Thus my wanting to check out this movie.
They must have made a mistake.
I’ve gotten rejected, twice, by companies I positively never applied to. Nor were they any subsidiaries or whatever of other companies.
Then again, one time I’ve also gotten a rejection mere hours after applying.
Also notable: This one time last year when I e-mailed my application and received a very official rejection letter a few weeks later… by snail mail. Signed by the CEO himself. Not sure if that’s supposed to be a badge of honor or something.They really wanted to send you a message by rejecting you as hard as possible.
The fifteen-year one seems to be the fault of some excruciatingly long-lived automated system. The six-month one was apparently just the molasses pace of east-coast defense contractors.
I hope they at least had the decency to ask if you were still interested so you could tell them to stick it
Yes. I did tell them to pound sand since I already had a job at that point, though sometimes I do wonder where my life might have gone had I gone into aerospace instead of <redacted> back then.
Did you remember to send an email thanking the interviewer for the interview tho?
Half a year after you got the job elsewhere.
After six months of working on this company I received an email from them saying that unfortunately they decided to go with other candidate but that I can still apply to other positions.
