Stop demanding five years of experience for an office position you’re only paying $13/hour for. I read the responsibilities and I know I can do that job, I’ve been doing that type of work for 2 years. Someone with NO experience can learn to do this job in a week or two. Give me a fucking interview already. You posted this job last May, I applied to it and got a rejection email the very next day. Now you’re posting it again. I applied, in came the rejection email again. What kind of morons work in your HR department? Aww, muffin, couldn’t find someone with 5 years experience to take the position? Ummm, there’s a reason why. You have champagne taste on a beer budget, you want a mansion when you only have enough down payment for a trailer, you are Shrek-level of attractiveness chasing after supermodels! Fuck, figure it out, and take what you can get! —Job Seeker
This article appears in Jul 17-23, 2014.
And you want a job you don’t have the required experience for. Then you act surprised when you got a rejection notice (be lucky they even told you). Sour grapes.
IT’s what the bro man himself said… or they simply don’t want you 🙁 and are using the exp as a really good excuse.
LOLOL! My boss does this and doesn’t understand why we get such shitty applicants…
Employer expectations are really out of touch these days, mostly due to “cost”, but also blame the glut of experienced and educated workers… Because why pay someone to train when someone is either over experienced, or the worker has paid for the training already?
Blame the Baby Boomers for bankrupting the system, then refusing to retire because they became too focused on consumerism towards the end of their working careers, thus leaving them broke and unable to retire. When the cushy government jobs disappeared (especially in this province), they still had a home equity line of credit to pay for that $50K boat they use twice a year… And thanks to the government they themselves voted in, they can’t draw on OAS/CAP without penalties until they’re 70+, so their bloated, congested heart will have to hold out for another few years, till those sweet, sweet entitlements kick in, or the osteoarthritis cripples them, whichever comes first.
Then, blame the universities and career colleges. Blame the universities because they’ve convinced (and I would argue, sold) Gen X, Gen Y and Millennials that they need a degree to get a “good” job, which has created a glut of over-educated workers who now have a Master’s degree and no field to focus on (mostly due to university cutbacks, this would be called bait-and-switch if they were selling something), so now the stock boy at the grocery store has a better education than half the world. Career colleges deserve ire because they’ve taught an entire generation that they need an education to answer a phone, file things alphabetically, and turn on a computer to use Microsoft Word. So now employers look for people taught how to be a secretary, rather than having to train which takes time and money.
You should look on linkedin, or their corporate website and try and find the email address of the manager that is hiring. Email them your resume directly. HR are usually talentless hacks that couldn’t do anything else.
That’s why I only fux wit the expensive ass companies. Wit ya cheap ass.
Whoa whoa whoa… wait a minute:
FEVER IS BACK?
Mind. officially. blown.
In any event, OB: here’s the deal – it’s an employer’s market so they can pretty much ask for anything they want. Obviously, they don’t want you. If they repost, you can reapply, but chances are it’s a big fat waste of your time. For some reason they had no interest in your application. Yes, you could probably do that job, and yes, you probably don’t need five years experience, but around here, employers can get away with asking for a bazillion years experience for entry-level gigs.
It sucks, but it is what it is.
Ahh, typical Nova Scotia employer. OP, get the fuck outta that physically beautiful but useless province!
However, I learned the other day some employers out here in Calgary can be cheap as fuck too. My cousin just told me that when she moved here three months ago, she was told in an interview that if she got the job, they’d be paying her $14/hour…for an accounting assistant position. A measly $14/hour in fucking Calgary, Alberta! That’s a joke wage for an accounting position in the Maritimes for fuck’s sake–in Calgary, they should pay her rent as well, for that pathetic compensation! My cousin says the job ad for that position is posted again lol. Aw, no takers? No wonder.
Dr. Fever, my good sir – it brought tears to these old peep holes to see your name again – BOOGER!!!!!
Easy– I wouldn’t say I’m back per se, but it is good to poke my head now and again to launch off a tirade or two. Although I must say that it is a bit disorienting with all the new-to-me user names. It’s all good nonetheless and I’m all caught up. I must say though, I go away for a couple of years and come back, it’s all the same. It’s like an episode of Cheers.
Hey Job Seeker, you can always try and ally yourself with Wheels and see if you can land a job at the Namechanger Transit Company. You’ll never know from one day to the next what company you work for.
You were one of my favourite posters, Dr. F., hope we’ll see you around these parts every once in a while! Of course, nothing’s changed – our motto remains: LTWWB promises to put the ‘fun’ in dysfunctional.
this bitch reminds me of any of the hundreds of unrequited loves crying ‘but I want you! how dare you not want me?’
go suck your thumb.
Well, I think this is a totally valid bitch. And I love OP’s analogies! They reflect the way the world actually fucking works…you only have enough coin for a 6-pack, you ain’t getting that fancy ass champagne…you ain’t getting that celebrity mansion with a $5000 down payment…you are UGLY, good luck getting that hot chick (unless you’re rich)!
I was briefly doing pre-screening interviews at a past job, and my old boss rejected every candidate’s application I forwarded to him! These were of the best applicants I was getting, I kid you fucking not. Were they top-notch? No. But asshole was only offering $28,000 for a position that should have been paying $50,000+, and demanding someone worth that (latter) salary! WTF are these employers expecting?!
OP, stop applying to this shitty job with this employer. You dodged the bullet, stop chasing it already.
Years ago the c-word was proscribed. Then, like the Soviet Union following the death of Stalin, there was a bit of a thaw. Now it’s verboten again.
With a rant like this, I can’t understand why ANYONE wouldn’t hire you…..
Op, stop making excuses for yourself. OBviously, someone in HR thought you were qualified for the position or you would not have gotten an interview. Go sign up for some interview workshops and find out how to better handle the interview.