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I emailed you on your website a month or so ago and never got a response. I also reached out to connect with you on LinkedIn with no response either. I'm sure you get a ton but thought I'd mention it.
@@LowGrowl I get 100s of questions emailed to me each day and I've found myself getting burned out in the past trying to keep up with them all. So to maintain my own mental health, I rarely check emails on LinkedIn. If you submitted a coaching request through my site and my team hasn't gotten back to you, I'll look into that though. Please resubmit and I'll make sure they follow up.
I remember laughing really hard reading a story of a man who applied for some sort of software development job or whatnot. The hiring manager demanded that they have someone with 5-10 years of experience in a specific development process. The man who was applying was the one who created and patented said process 2 years before. He was rejected. It's awesome dealing with hiring staff who have zero knowledge about what things they're hiring for.
I applied for a job managing a specific project, I had a PhD from developing a similar process and experience of teaching how to do these processes to individuals. Hit every requirement. I was in the middle of the salary band for the role. Just really wanted to work at this company. I didn’t even get a call back, didn’t make the basic screening. Honestly no idea who they had better 😂.
Most of the time the HR people don't know what they're looking for to hire someone. I re-applied at a lawncare company and I was friends with a co-worker who became the leading manager in charge of the employee and hiring . I learned later he wasn't in charge of the hiring and that the company itself decided to put two 20 year old girls in charge of hiring employees and they have no experience in lawncare or the process of pushing a 80 pound spreader or 250 pound aerator and just advertised that you'll have to lift 50 pound bags of granular. The whole interviewing process was a circus. I had to download a software on my tablet called members because I had a flip phone that couldn't download the program because the company only hires people that have I-phones that can do video calls. I complained to the manager about what was going on and that I was turned down for the job and I wasn't given a reason and I told her that I had 3 years of lawncare experience and I was still turned down and he was shocked and upset and I apologized because I wanted to help and wanted to come back. I left on good terms but apparently that wasn't good enough.
Well that is certainly true earlier in your career. "It's not _what_ you know; it's _who_ you know" and all that. But then once your career is established and you have a track record and reputation, it becomes less about who _you_ know. It is more about who knows _you..._
I expect to get rejected for every job but sometimes the guy interviewing you is smarter than the average bear and he sees something that others don’t. That’s how I got my last job and my new employer is very happy with my work.
@@picklerix6162 And sometimes you're the 2nd choice after the 1st person turns down the offer for paying too low or for another reason. This happened to me twice, but being informed of that by coworkers is quite demoralizing.
I feel ya man. I'm 32 and I've never in my life had a W2 job. Not Part-Time, not Temporary, not Full-Time. Contract/1099? Yes. W2? No. The worst part is that if you explain your job history, for some reason, they frown (sometimes literally) upon the idea of someone working odd jobs, being a Freelance/1099 Contract worker, and then I don't get the W2 Full-Time, Consistent, Reliable job that I applied for. It's a total catch-22.
My old boss would post jobs just to get the phone numbers and social media of attractive women. There was never any intention of hiring because the opening didn't even exist.
I've been "due diligence" in the past when they had someone else already decided to get the job. I've also been the one who is already decided to get the job, but was outright told that they need to hold off while they interview the required three other people.
@@earthwormscrawl A high profile hospital administrator position in my area became vacant years ago. It was common knowledge that they were going to hire an internal employee to the position. This large teaching hospital not only went through the process of interviewing other candidates, they flew in multiple out of state candidates to interview knowing the entire time they weren’t going to hire them. They hired that internal guy after all of this interviewing. It was a complete waste of time and resources. It’s embarrassing.
When layoffs happen recruiters / hr folks are usually cut first. Most job listings are ghosts jobs as they need to show they are doing something. AI will eliminate many of these jobs within next 5-10 yrs. Folks need to go back to the way things were. Be your own boss. Find a skill you’re good at and sell it. Stop applying to these companies that you are just a number and will cut you loose when they need to show a profit. They collect our data and sell it while you get no job and they get paid. The days of loyalty are long gone. Again, be your own boss! We all have a talent / skill worth selling. Do some soul searching and find yours! You will be so much happier.
The crazy thing is if hiring managers were looking for a job and there’s unrealistic “wish lists” they would be frustrated. People have no compassion. Landing a job these days is literally winning the lottery. I recently applied for a job and I was a perfect fit. I received an automated rejection within two hours. Absolutely ridiculous!
Great points! However, I still think companies are extremely rude when not responding with a letter of denial. That's the least they should do so applicants don't have to wait o on baited breath
Companies that tell me they're going with other candidates go on my "good" list. I may send another resume for some other position later. If I never hear from a company I've applied to (directly not via Indeed or anything) they go on my "bad" list and I won't apply to them again even if they have a great job opening next year.
The "unrealistic expectation" where they are "willing to wait a long time" is simply bullsh*t. They DON'T need somebody, they just are trying to see if they find an VERY VERY good deal. It's like somebody who "wants" to buy a car, they want a brand new Ferrari, but they only have 5000$, they are "willing" to wait. It's simple, they don't need a car, if they would REALLY need a car, they would buy a car at a real price.
1. Internal applicant is selected. 2. Req is cancelled because they no longer need it. 3. Department is scaling back on headcount and that is a common early sign of a layoff.
When I worked in a coupler factory I talked to a guy who used to be a manager and he told me that he spent about a year and a half to almost two years interviewing 1,183 candidates for a machine operator job and passed over that many people just to find that one person who ended up quitting a year later to find a better paying job. These games that employers play to find that 'one' specific guy or girl that knows that skill or software on the computer are painting them in a corner of incompetence. There's skill sets that are transferable and software isn't that difficult to learn if you apply yourself to it. It sounds like a lot of screwing around and wasting time to hire someone who is smart enough and versatile to do the job and is willing to learn new skills. All they're doing is costing the company money by not getting talented people in the door.
One way to do things is, apply for temporary jobs or contract jobs as well. The temporary job might not be a full solution, but you are more likely to be hired (less people want them and there is less risk to the employer) and it gives you industry experience and some money in the meantime. Also, they can be another reference. I have done this a couple of times and it gets your foot in the door and builds contacts for when a more permanent position comes along.
Applied for a job five weeks ago, got the rejection email today after zero interviews. And I will not dole out any more money to career coaches and consultants like yourself when the recruiting process is broken beyond repair. Good qualified people should not have to exercise acts of futility trying to adapt to a broken and corrupt system.
Had a unicorn candidate posting asking candidates to build an app with a 40 page manual of design requirements that could easily take 2 weeks, along with 500+ applicants on the LinkedIn statistics for the role. This was just to land a "first" interview. Part of me thinks this might have even been a crummy way to get free development ideas from the most likely recorded Zoom demos.
What you are describing about managers is one of the greatest issues in business today: managers who were never trained to recruit, hire, manage and develop humans. Recent studies put the number of managers not trained or prepared to manage people at around 70%. This leads to the kind of ridiculaous narrow hiring practice that you described.
At least outlaw fake job postings, and make it harder for managers to reject candidates for being "overqualified" or not having super-exact matches like knowing Spiffyware XYZ version 5.4.3a but they want to hire someone with exactly only Spiffyware XYZ version 5.4.3b
You keep saying all these things as if they're reasonable and normal. The recruiting industry needs a wholesale overhaul if these are common practices.
I’ll push back a little bit here and share the times I’ve submitted targeted resumes related to my experience in a particular industry. I worked other roles between those over several years. So I was interviewing and only included that relevant industry experience, which was more than qualified. The hiring manager started grilling me about “gaps”. I explained that there were no gaps. I just didn’t want to bog down the resume with a bunch of irrelevant experience. He asked for an additional resume showing those experiences. There is no winning with some of these people.
Even if you had gaps, what is normal with todays job market, if you fit you fit. That manager was against hiring you so it wouldnt be a good idea to hand him a full version of your CV. I had the same problem btw, them looking for gaps, looking for your flaws to discard you. And i really needed to shorten my cv.
The hiring has become no longer about technical background, but a culture fit most of all even in tech. This sucks for those of us who are not into jumping on a gang wagon and trash taking.
When they get at least a dozen people who can easily perform the job, then demographics (age, gender, ethnicity) come into play, masked under the 'culture fit' catch-all so not as obvious.
impossible wishlist unrealistic expectations and all bullet points checked off, still never good enough and always candidate in mind and destroying rapport with external prospects
I have to disagree there. Landing a job was always easier than finding a date for me. Only was successful once, with one woman. Thankfully, that date eventually became my wife. ❤ Never need to look around for a new date ever again!
Lots of jobs. The only problem is they are all McJob's. My advice is to spend the 150 bucks and had a third party call you former employer for a reference. I did that. Found out my former employer said I was fired for cause. (Not true. My position was eliminated.) CHA CHING!!!!! Got some additional severance.
Lets be honest for those that don't know. If the job posting is actually for a vacancy that needs to be filled. There is already an internal candidate the company has in mind. Companies still interview externally to have a backup. Sometimes at the last minute the internal candidate will keep their current job. When this happens the company has a few people to select from outside the company. When applying for job. If the job has been posted for over 3 days and you don't have an internal employee from that company referring you. You are wasting your time with that application.
I would add, sometimes they do more interview to keep themself fit, mostly when company not really hiring, they will keep looking into people + testing them, as they dont have anything else, and just waste everyone time. (but they getting paid will the candidate is not)
Had this a lot recently, including with departments i have interviewed well at. And they don't give feedback if you don't get an interview so i have no idea what was missing, so frustrating 😢
There are so many videos about why you're not getting the job, how to game the system, etc. But very few videos talking about the nearly endless flaws in the system we have in place and how we should be pushing for legislature to correct it.
Keeping a postings up just in case someone quits or goes on leave. What a crock Is applying to jobs early to mid of the year better than end of the year as far as budgets?
YMMV, but I'd say you get better results in the 4th quarter -- almost every job I've ever had has been one where I applied early in the 4th quarter and was hired towards the end of the quarter, putting the cost of my salary and benefits into the 1st quarter of the new fiscal year.
They already have someone in mind, they just have to go through the song and dance (aka waste people’s time and money) before they hire their family or friend.
I endured the fake job postings twice. I went through those interviews (multiple rounds btw) yet after those 2nd/3rd round interviews those companies ghosted me. A month later, those companies said they suspended those job postings.
Great video, Bryan!! This has happened to me dozens and dozens and dozens of times in my 20+ years career! Jobs I was 95%-100% fit or perfect fit for! I never apply for a job if I don't fit 80% of what they're looking for!
They already have a friend or family member figured out. Applied to state job, I have 20 years equipment operating experience. Kid was there that didn't know what he was doing on the loader testing. They hired him told me to not bother testing they have made their choice already. Who's your daddy?
The difficult thing for me to come to grips with is the requirement of industry experience with industry (enterprise) tools for entry level jobs. "Entry level job listing: We are seeking a candidate who has a B.A./B.S. in one of the relevant fields listed. They must have 3+ years of experience. And experience using this one tool that's used in 2 other companies." It's irritating because they believe it can take years to be qualified to use their 'special' tool, in reality it takes a couple weeks.
Sometimes you're actually hired only to be not hired. One time about six or seven years ago, I interviewed a with a company through an engineering staffing firm, was told yes, filled in the forms I-9, W4, contract etc. and was told the start date was not determined yet. It remained undetermined for a long time - long enough for me to land an entirely different job at Intel, then move to Montana, and life goes on. Never did hear back on that one ghost job.
Did you sign a contract? If so, couldn't you have sued them? If not, maybe there was some age discrimination once you filled out the HR forms and they found out your age?
After receiving another rejection today, I was starting to doubt myself, it is somehow calming to see my situation is not that rare. Thank you for the video, very helpful and nicely explained!
Do recruiters or hiring managers get paid regardless of performance? Because I wonder if they truly care if the job is filled or not, if they get paid anyway.
There is one reason that you didn’t mention. Employers could be nervous that a candidate who is “overqualified” for the job is highly sought after by competitors, and therefore could easily quit and find a new job as soon as a better offer comes along or they no longer like your company.
Does those employers know what an employment contract is? Have everyone involved in employing such a candidate sign a paper saying they'll stick with the job for x months/years and don't worry about it. Problem solved! Unless I'm missing something... I usually am!
@@DrunkenUFOPilot I'm not sure that sort of thing is legal, especially when it's not specifically linked to some sort of costs that the company has entailed. For example, my employer will do this kind of thing if they're paying for qualifications for candidates, or in my case, flying me to another country. You sign a 2-year contract, and if you leave before that, you have to pay back the costs (on a pro rata basis in my case). I've never heard of it being a standard thing in a contract though, other than something extremely highly paid like a professional footballer.
I could imagine some candidates in a job interview the hiring manager could literally say "you're hired" only to be ghosted the next day and when they try calling them they hear a recording say "the number you are trying to reach is out of service, goodbye" or that they blocked their number.
I had a Security position in which I met with the Building Manager, trained for the position, and was told I had the job. A couple days later, I was driving to the post and got a call from the Security company to tell me they went with someone else. I was the epitome of a perfect candidate. The Industry as a whole is a joke.
Don't move to FL. That happens often. A mgr will spend 20-30min saying how strict and important your site, uniform, post is. You start & deal with 19yr olds who never worked ANY job, wear 👟 . Have no skills, do not understand basic security functions.
I was recently unsuccessful with two promotions at work. I accept I wasn't their first choice but strongly believe a decision was made about a candidate before interviews even started. Opinions are my own. Have a good day reader
Recruiters sometimes don't even see your application, as it first gets filtered out by some automated process. I once got an automated response saying that my experience didn't fit the requirements of the role. Fair enough, you might think. However, the role I was applying for is one that I had actually created at the company in question. I had set it up as a consultant and had been doing the role for about 18 months until about a year previously. The person who took over from me couldn't do the job and was let go after about a year, and they went out to market. I was applying to do the role on a permanent basis. But apparently i didn't have the right experience to do the role I had created and done for 18 months at that very same company... 😮
@novadhd I get what you're saying, but there's more info I didn't put. They did offer me the job when I queried it. The hiring manager hadn't even known I had applied. I turned it down in the end because the money didn't work. The point of my original post was that sometimes applications get filtered out (By software? By HR?) before a decision maker even sees it. I know it's about lightening the load in the recruitment process, but it isn't always done intelligently.
There is no perfect fit! Wanting specific competencies are one thing. Getting them is another. I get rejections and unfortunatelly at this time we are not moving...About 20 to 25 on a daily. Recruiters and hiring managers hould not be allowed to use help from ATS or AI. What is also frustrating is that they ask irrelevant questions once you upload your resume and they make you fill out every line one by one. There is just no hope. Also there are tons of fake job posts out there.
Bogus job listings are rampant in university job listings (non-faculty). There is often a candidate lined up for it and the weirdly specific description describes that person, who may already be doing the job. I have been in committee interviews for jobs that were totally sewed up for one internal candidate, but then occasionally we really were considering externals. For non-professional jobs, they may get 100 applicants, interview 2, and pick the one they always wanted.
Not to mention many positions are given to faculty spouses because more and more often that is a condition of a faculty member accepting a job offer. These hires often have ZERO experience but are given cushy salary jobs anyway. The system is rotten.
I've never understood the idea that job applicants must apply up to five days after a new job opening is posted to increase the chances of their resume getting seen. It's literally impossible to apply early if multiple jobs you want to apply to requires a cover letter. What's more, many job postings don't list the posting date, especially on the company's careers page. I wish more HR people would leave a bigger window of time for applicants or, you know, specify a cut-off date so that people don't waste their time. Providing a deadline to apply to a job would help save a lot of time. Some job listings stay up for months, so it's hard to gauge whether it's worthwhile to apply or not.
So these idiots are posting jobs hoping to get a pool to choose from….as if the best candidates won’t have found a different job by then, and most likely a better paying job from a company that doesn’t jerk people around. But they then are going to recruit from this dead list whenever they feel like. Ummm….ok. Sounds like this country needs to start making laws about this and other bogus postings and start prosecuting people hard. When people have to apply to hundreds of phony jobs to hit a real one it wastes a lot of time. These people should have to reimburse job seekers for every second of time they waste and then some.
This used to happen to me all the time. Less often recently. I don't know why a hiring manager would be hiding requirements. We may have that experience, yet we might not emphasize it if it is not on the job description.
I've had many job interviews where they rejected me even though I have education and work experience about good enough for the job. Sometimes I worry if my college years were a waste of time, even with getting a job linear with my degree where such jobs gave me extremely low pay on top of being treated poorly by management and patrons.
I feel ya, what makes it worse is that they charge u on arm n leg for school meanwhile half if not all these jobs dont even pay enough to cover all the cost so now ur stuck with debt, hence one of the reasons I didnt jump right into grad school right away
Timing is SUCH a huge one. The only way I got hired for my last two roles is because I happened to apply within a day or so of the req being posted. Late applications can be a killer.
Normally, it’s Human Resources that will reject you, not the hiring manager. I got turned down for a position by HR because I only had three years experience with Python and five years were needed. Most of the work was in C and Python was needed for testing. Recruiters have contacted me about jobs that required the knowledge of three engineers so I always reject those jobs. I always tell the recruiters that the hiring manager did not have realistic expectations and it looked like he expects one engineer to do the work of three engineers.
@@dhenderson1810 - The pay is usually below market rate on those unrealistic job titles. The company is usually run by a penny pincher. That’s why they only want to hire one engineer rather than three.
That's the thing though. I get rejected for jobs that I'm an exact fit for, years of experience, and specific types of ERP and accounting software the companies are looking for.
These companies don't know what they want. They're inundated by choice and indulge their unrealistic expectations with AI-based ATS. Getting worse than dating apps nowadays. Become an entrepreneur.
The fact is, there are too many cooks. The recruiter, the hiring manager, the boss. I had an on-the-spot interview at a shoe store, when I handed the manager my resume. She loved me and wanted to hire me. But then the other shoe fell. All hirings went through head office. I got rejected at the head office stage, even though the person I spoke to was keen on me. I often apply at small businesses where the boss themselves does the interview and you get to know him or her. They are going to work with you everyday and pay you so it is good that they be the one to interview you.
Hey Brian, not sure if you missed one, but have you seen fake job postings from companies that are only posting positions just to get a PPP loan forgiveness? Like they’ll say they’re hiring but actually not hire because they’re purposefully understaffed and they’re trying to get money to keep their business going.
Right now, companies are getting more than 1000 applications for any decent job. A candidate might think they are a perfect fit but the employer might think one of the other 999 candidates are a better fit.
Then companies need to put all the pros and cons of the job in the ad. Tell us everything. No nasty little surprises. This may cause many to drop off if they don't fit some of the requirements. Those who still really need or want the job will apply anyway.
That would be true for jobs where the post goes up and isn’t posted again, it we see the same jobs with pretty basic criteria posted over and over for months on end. Either the manager is a gutless wonder who is terrified of making decisions or (more likely) it’s a fake job posted to make current employees think they might get some help so they can work them to exhaustion and whine that “nobody wants to work”….except those 1000 applicants.
this explains exactly why last time i got laid off around 2018. i applied to 20 plus jobs that i qualified for. i was stubborn and refused to do temp agencies and i applied directly to companies. so i eventually broke down and went to a staffing agency. they wanted to send me into a places where i applied and got no response from. i refused those possible assignments based on those companies falsely listing a job they didn't want to fill. my recruiter showed me a list of like 7 other places that they could send me to the following week. 3 of those places i applied to and got rejected. even when my app was a spot on match the advertised role. thats how i ended up where i am now 5 years later. thank you for this video it answered a puzzling question.
Actually your resume can be perfectly fit, but if you happen to apply even a few hours after the job is posted on Linkedin or Indeed, etc. it's unlikely that you will get a response from the recruiter or HR person. This is because ( depending on the person collecting the resumes) once there are more than say 40 or 50 ( probably even fewer in some cases) apps/resumes in, that's it. They stop reviewing them at all. And depending on the job, you could accumulate that many apps in half a work day. The job ad might stay up for weeks or days and you might see that 250 apps have been made in the previous week, but the majority of them will NOT be viewed. The company will just pick someone from that first early batch. If the hiring mgr genuinely cannot accept anyone from that early batch, they will decide "there's no one out there that's right" for the moment and put the whole search aside for months. So if you really need a job you will have to put in a certain amount of time every day to scour Linkedin etc and hope you can apply to a job within an hour of the ad dropping.
You missed one. I applied to a company and interviewed with them. The position/industry was IDENTICAL to a job I had held for over 3 years at another identical company. I'm convinced that the problem was, I knew more about the industry and the job than the woman I would be reporting to. So, she viewed me as a threat. Once again this was another interview where I found out I didn't get the job by the sound of crickets. These companies can be so rude.
Unicorn candidate for bargain basement salary or insisting on contract to hire in a market where candidates can go perm immediately. Seen it, lived it.
Here’s another one: I personally value thinking ability over specific skills. However, I opened a job for the first time ever (a freelance project I got needed a team). I got over 400 applications for the frontend and over 200 for the backend… in less than 3 days! All of these applicants seemed to be a good fit. However, I couldn’t critically evaluate each and every resume in depth like I wanted to. I had to get stricter about specific skills and years of experience in order to filter down to a more manageable number of resumes… even though I hated doing so. At the very least, I’m going to try to construct some rejection letters encouraging the applicants to keep their eyes open for future projects. Overall, the entire process was overwhelming.
This video missed a point or two, imo. You left on good note, but didn't quite elaborate enough I feel. Yes, it is up to us to portray a good resume to the employer in question - that's why I always do one-page resumes and I create a new resume for each job that I'm applying for. Maybe that's not a good idea as most of those applications went unanswered, but a few years ago I found out that a majority of companies had switched to automated bots (and now AI) to "scan" and "choose" people based on keywords. So, it turns out, people submitting a General Resume with more keywords had a higher chance of getting an interview than people who wrote one-page resumes that were specific to the job in question. That and the sheer amount of people that use a blank piece of paper in an interview and they pretend it's your resume just kills me. Either there's a reflection in their glasses or a surface nearby, or a gust of wind from a door accidentally blows it into my viewing, or the idiot asked all the questions that were answered in my one-page resume (the same resume that took my grandma 1 minute 17 seconds to read in its entirety and totally reiterate it back to me). These days there's a severe lack of "human element" involved in Job Recruitment, in my experience.
It's literally just online dating -- a seller's market with infinite choice. You might be the perfect candidate, but the hiring manager knows this other guy that makes her feel a certain type of way. Just like dating, you don't get the job by being the perfect match, you get the job by getting them excited in the short-term.
Of the ~50 jobs I applied for (C# developer), there was one (one of the last ones) that was a perfect fit. I mean I was a 70-90% fit for all others, but that one was a 99%. They looked for someone coding game server communication for games, and I happen to work on exactly that at the time, and I was almost finished (it took me 2 months). It was also unprecedented peak technology done in record time, and I was very peculiar on that specific thing I made. I had ALL the skills and way more. I can do EVERYTHING they'd ever need. And I got the standard macro response aka "oh you are not what we are looking for, but it looks promising blabla." Highest quality work in the lowest time possible for some meager wage. And they just wanted something standard anyway. Which was way, way beneath what I already did. But it was different, so even then I could have learned from doing it which could have been useful for the future.
Good analysis, but there is something else here. I am certainly NOT a narcissist, but a very good-looking 6 foot tall blond male. You would think that I might be first in line, but not at all. I was told I would be 'disruptive' to my team for some reason. Being plain looking is certainly an advantage.
@@dhenderson1810 I think it really depends. Being an attractive woman can also work against you, if the interviewer has a bias against women who are attractive.
Thing that sucks is, they tell me my resume is awesome, and the when I am done with the interview, or my disability is brought up... they just reject or ghost me. I have 2 jobs lined up right now, so... we'll have to see how things go...
I feel like a get frustrated a year these company don't give a shit about hiring until my money finished. What if I have a new family or start paying the bills with no. It's been a year since I've last work. I may not have much experience of everything but at least give me a chance that's why I bust my ass everyday to find a job. Sometimes these bastard managers don't even call me for an interview. All I see is everyone's started work before me. I might have to go back to KFC if those jerks don't want to recruit me anymore, I don't care if I hate the job I just need money period that's why I'm fighting each and everyday to earn them or I might just practice driving for the time being.
I got a perfect job match a few months ago, but no interview. I was so disappointed. Same place had a perfect job match two weeks ago, and I applied, nearly same job. I followed up with the same HR I had asked questions the time before. I had also improved my resume to show how I have what they want. I got an email for an interview yesterday, and it will be tomorrow. I consider that a win. They agreed I look like what they want. I am what they want. I hope I get hired. Oh and I hope I do well on the interview, three people interviewing me in ASL.
Your videos often skip the most important reasons that finding a job is difficult: H1B visas. Many employers don't want Americans, and many of the job postings are only a preliminary to a visa sponsor.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff It needs to be much more difficult. I had to train my replacement in the United States, who was from China on an H1B visa. It was humiliating. It's legal, because otherwise it's "citizenship discrimination"
While I get what you are saying, the root cause is really that jd's do not reflect actual requirements. I've hired hundreds of people - there are many reasons this may be true but it's a failure regardless.
It could be: 1) The job posting & the interview is for the compliance sake. Actually they are going to promote someone internally or hire someone pre-selected. 2) The interviewer didn't like you (your look, your vibe, your attire, your smell etc.) 3) The vacancy was there at the time of the interview, however suddenly management has decided to freeze recruitments or to eliminate the position which was published from the carder. 4) It's a fake job posting followed with a bogus interview.
I recently interviewed 3 rounds with a Fortune 500 for a digital experience CMS role. Each time they said I did great. On paper I was exactly what they were looking for. I got a rejection email stating that they were looking for someone with more “design experience” but they never asked me anything about my design experience in any of the interviews. It was all technical. I’ve been a web designer and CMS manager for almost 3 years and sent them my portfolio but they never even bothered to ask about it, and drug me through 3 rounds of interviews and false hope.
I've made it to interviews for jobs I was literally the picture-perfect candidate for. Years of experience AND formal education in all of their required proficiencies. One of them I know for a fact denied me because of my age (I was barely even mid-twenties, but they wanted someone even younger). The other hired me and then fired me after three days while saying "I don't see any potential" - after I worked myself to the limit trying to chase down things to learn when they weren't teaching. I feel like "perfect fit jobs" are jinxed now because they've gone so poorly.
