Comments on: Application

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:19:37 +0000

So completely spot on. I have found nothing in my life so soul crushing as the relentless, repeated rejection I’ve suffered at the hands of those who put their job descriptions out there willy-nilly, ‘just to test the water’.

Well, F you recruiters. I just wasted 2 hours of my life filling out your poxy application form because apparently you won’t take CVs. And apart from your completely generic ‘thanks for your application’ auto-mail response, I will never hear from you again. And knowing this as I complete your pretentious, lengthy application form, does not help to motivate me.

I beg you, please tell me why I didn’t get an interview. Surely it only takes you a few moments! “You were underqualified”. “We hired internally”. “Your CV was badly written”. Anything. Any feedback would be better than just stoney, empty silence. Empty, like my heart and soul, after completing my 15,000th application form and writing my 20,000th covering letter.

Kthnxbai.

By: Kristopher

Kristopher — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:35:45 +0000

If there were enough jobs that I could miss an opportunity, I’d fill in a couple telling them exactly what I thought about their application form, and the real reasons I want to be involved with their company. At the moment, though, there are so few jobs I find that I can’t afford to mess up a single one.

By: Ponytail

Ponytail — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:55:46 +0000

Membership of professional bodies – this is vital in my field, because if I applied for a job and wasn’t a member of the ONE professional body, it means I’m not taking part in CPD and revalidation, and so on. I don’t know how relevant it is in other fields but I always fill this in and I know that if I wasn’t a member, I wouldn’t get an interview.
Does that explain it ?

By: PumpkinSpider

PumpkinSpider — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:34:07 +0000

Wonderful post.

It’s hard to be enthusiastic and positive and engaging and memorable when your daily existence involves tickboxes and rejection, or worse, all efforts being ignored…

I found that I didn’t have enough relevant or recent experience for some jobs, but too much for others.
How do all these middle-class comfortably-off folks do the ‘downsizing’ thing, when I couldn’t even get a call centre job to pay the basic bills because I was deemed to be “overqualified” and “not worth the investment of onboarding” because I would “get bored and leave within 6 months”…?!

Worse was applying for places only to find out they had a ‘preferred candidate’ of someone internal who’d already been doing the job for 6 months…

In the end, an ex-colleague got me into her place, because she knew my work and knew it was what was needed in her workplace.

Take solace in your readership and retweets: there are people who love what you do, and one day it’ll pay off for you.
When it does, remember to please keep blogging otherwise we’ll miss you!

By: Mawgen

Mawgen — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:05:41 +0000

I want to see you have a column in something I can buy; and I’d buy it just because you were in it. I like the way you write

By: George Allwell

George Allwell — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:23:40 +0000

Send the above article, with contact details. And maybe the article on Jan Moir and Tiger Dicks, that could be clincher.

“You’ve got to have hope. Haven’t you?”

By: Murray

Murray — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:08:40 +0000

Sorry, I meant ‘articulated’. Oh, the irony…

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By: Murray

Murray — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:05:03 +0000

This is the very same rigmarole I put myself through each week. I couldn’t have articualted my own thought processes any better, or more concisely than this.
Excellent blog!

By: Sonic James Doom

Sonic James Doom — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:44:23 +0000

I know the feeling… currently applying for teaching jobs that I really don’t want to do but it’s a case of ‘taking one for the team’ wherein by ‘team’ I mean family an by ‘taking one’ I mean for the rest of my career until retirement or death – whichever strikes first. I keep telling myself it’s worth it somehow and that I won’t miss the time spent writing music and playing games, but with each application to some rain-sodden far flung corner of the country I beleive it less and less.

Thank you for your blog, it has been received and we will let you know if it was successful shortly. If you do not hear from us I am afraid you have not been shortlisted.