I was so excited yesterday. I spent all Sunday afternoon searching online for a job. Found a few that I thought fit me to a "T" and decided to apply. There were two that I especially liked - one at ESPN in Bristol, CT and one at USC in Los Angeles. Of course, they both had online forms that needed to be completed - as if my life and my experience is so predictable that it fits into a form! How can anyone really know what I am really like by reviewing a form? Nevertheless, I completed them.
Name, Address, Contact Information, Experience (make sure your job title fits into the 10 characters the form provides), Education, and that Voluntary Gender/Race/etc. information. I did it all, for both jobs. I even customized a cover letter for each and uploaded it and my resume to both applications. I felt good when I was done and excited about the possibilities. It was Sunday, late afternoon. I expected the information to be in someone's Inbox first thing Monday morning waiting for their review.
Of course, I couldn't rest on those submissions, so Monday morning I reviewed Indeed.com for new postings and just happened to look in the Junk Mailbox in my Hotmail account (to clean it up), only to find that USC had sent me a rejection letter already - last night no less, around 9:00 p.m.! I was infuriated. How could someone have possibly reviewed my info already? I am sure no one was at their computer reviewing applications on Sunday evening. All I could deduce is that the computer system had somehow reviewed my form, found something lacking and rejected me, sending me the form letter with the customary, "Good luck in your search" closing. Forget all the time I spent applying- preparing a cover letter, making sure my resume was complete and accurate, filling in my application form, and reviewing my application. Didn't that warrant at least a human review?
I wanted to scream! Ugh!
I think that explains why I haven't heard from several of the applications I've submitted. I've got the experience and the qualifications. I apply for jobs that I'm suited for; openings for which I can at least expect a phone call for an interview. There must be some answer I'm giving in my online form that is doing me in. I've never had this problem before.
Of course, I'll keep applying. I've got to find work. I don't want to go on unemployment.
I wanna job!
