I'm currently working at a very well known international company where I got hired after getting rejected from a significant number (+50) of big international companies and a
good number of local ones (by local I mean from my small EU country).
Strangely or perhaps completely understandable, getting rejected from the local companies 'hurt' more as I was aware that the pool of candidates was significantly smaller, there was no culture issue and it felt personal when rejection email was extremely late or non existent. I pull my hat down for the people who can be completely transparent in their 'failures'. I do wonder though, if the motivation behind the 'failures-cv' is to send a sort of a message to the companies and grant boards mentioned in it, when it's done after the person writing it has had significant success. By message I mean sort of 'look guys, I'm doing relatively ok and you didn't even call me for an interview'.
Also, the article sparked an idea. Perhaps a good 'heuristic' for judging companies hiring processes and especially governmental ones would be to look at not only CVs of people getting hired but also those that get rejected. Part of that thinking comes from a conversation with one of my managers who said that sometimes he has a look at CV-s classified as 'C' (he get's only A & B from HR) and he wonders why some of them were not in the A and B group.
All the jobs I failed to get
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Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#42"So, what have you failed at this week?"
I failed my real analysis II exam, I failed to make progress at the gym, I failed a quiz on agile software development, I guess you could even say I failed to go on a date since I got stood up.
But you showed up for all of them! Your date failed you, and the only true gym fail is to not go. Good luck on your studies, you can do it.
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#43Reminded me of a friend who had applied to over 1,000 job openings in LinkedIn in 2019 and got zero response from them.
Then he decided to take the risk and run his own business, which is starting to gain some traction right now after the covid crisis.
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#44"So, what have you failed at this week?"
A lot. In my case it would be better phrased as what didn't I fail at. I had zero successes this week.
I can't imagine that is true. And even if it is, acknowledging that is a success, good job! If everything seems to fail, we have to focus on the things we accomplish every day and just take for granted. Even if they're small accomplishments.
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#45GoDaddy rejected me a year after I applied and only realized it when a recruiter was trying to input me into their system. I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process.
Because of that experience, I make it a point that every single candidate deserves a yes or no response and the company I work for has kept that up.
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#46I had a first interview for Product Manager for Google about a week ago and got the reject couple of days back. The recruiter said it was close. I played back the interview in my head and realized I could have been more methodical in my answers. Finally, just decided to let go. In the end its just a footnote.
> The recruiter said it was close.
Is this something a recruiter might ever not say?
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#47GoDaddy rejected me a year after I applied and only realized it when a recruiter was trying to input me into their system. I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process. Because of that experience, I make it a point that every single candidate deserves a yes or no response…
> I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process.
I used to work in tech recruiting. I guarantee you 100%, no one cares.
As a candidate your only option is to move on or write a bad glassdoor if you are so inclined and move on.
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#48Reminded me of a friend who had applied to over 1,000 job openings in LinkedIn in 2019 and got zero response from them. Then he decided to take the risk and run his own business, which is starting to gain some traction right now after the covid crisis.
Would it be nice if you can link it here though, just saying (:
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#49GoDaddy rejected me a year after I applied and only realized it when a recruiter was trying to input me into their system. I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process. Because of that experience, I make it a point that every single candidate deserves a yes or no response…
> I took great pride in informing her that a) I made more than their proposed offer and b) I’d never work for a company who couldn’t operate with basic human decency in their recruiting process. I used to work in tech recruiting. I guarantee you 100%, no one cares. As a candidate your only option is to move on or write a bad glassdoor if you are so inclined and move on.
It's never silly to inform someone when they fail basic human decency.
Re: All the jobs I failed to get
#50humblebrag, they're all high status positions
Deputy Director jobs in the UK Civil Service aren’t actually that senior. They tend to pay around £75k, or $100k US, which is a pretty decent wage for the general population but not quite at levels.fyi rates.
Sorry since when is over double the median wage 'decent'. Some people on this forum have their head in their arses when it comes to money.