What suggestions can be offered toward looking for a job/career if you're being contacted as a perfect fit but find out by no fault of your own(as a job seeker) that you didn't make the cut or rather continue to never get feedback/communication.
Let me iterate a bit.Let's say you are working with a couple of pro recruiters, or you contact certain HR's, etc.Either way the ones you are working with or ones that happen to contact you; they say "you're just what we're looking for" but you can't find out anything more than, we want to talk to you, you're contacted,some gibberish over the phone,maybe even an interview, you find out nothing and each & every time an instance like this occurs you feel like you're nothing more than a donkey that's being pulled without a rope just to see how far you can be pulled. So, you find new people to work with, the same results. But everyone continues to say "but there's jobs out there, don't let these type results hold you back". If you're always told "you're what we're looking for" but never seem to be the one they want, what might be some ideas to people so they'll quit feeling like a "donkey". Pondering thoughts I think.
I'm a guy that tries to view things from outside the box looking in. I can respect both sides perspective and aggravation,but when you continue to try everything you're told to try, you've spent dollars upon dollars for resume updates, skilled interview transactions, money to interviews, you appear to have the qualifications as stated; no matter what you seem to try you get kicked to the curb; & you're unemployed, & no money coming in; just how much should a person endure?
What exactly is the perfect person that employers are looking for.In that aspect since recruiters represent the employer since they're being paid, it appears to me that there's a lot of donkey's being pulled without ropes, professionals, lay workers,etc. A professional can not get a lay mans(Skilled labor, hourly salary) because they're just to over qualified & employers know one day they'll want to move on so forget being hired or even trying to start over. The professional can't get the professional jobs they apply for because they don't meet the qualifications although they're led to believe they do meet the qualifications. What exactly is the perfect fit? Does each line item that is being requested by the employer/recruiter have to be listed on a person's resume in order to be considered or is there an itty bitty bit of common sense in the playing that says this person has 5 of the top skills this employer wants and the other 2 can easily be acquired?
Everyone has seen it during their years in the working force. People didn't get their experiences from just book knowledge. They learned it on the job. I understand employers don't want to spend training dollars to train someone, but face it, there is no perfect person. Scientist, Doctors, even The President of the United States, are lacking something & is not perfect & will not be the perfect person for everything within a job posting. They will still have to be trained at some point to be efficient in that job/company or typically all the company is getting is a photo copy of the previous employer. The idea is to mold someone to be the culture of the company they are coming to work for not bring habits in from the previous company they worked for. If this isn't true and the perfect person has to reflect being the Holy Grail then there will always be nothing more than a bunch of unemployed people with a world of knowledge that keeps wishing to get feedback & the issues of getting the job force back working will never exist again & everyone will just become do- nothing-ers,and cost the economy even more dollars and put a larger burden on society creating more tax dollars that those are employed will be forced to pay.
Let's face it, commercial after commercial tells you that education is the key to becoming noticed. Upgrade your skills. Resume Companies pump advice like it's dollars being thrown out a window. Recruiters constantly updating their databases and calling people with fictitious jobs or posting fictitious jobs. The average person has become nothing more than a gambler in the job force. Some time in the future we'll probably start seeing billboards that reflect "Are you a career job-seeker with all the relevant requirements to get hired but find yourself hooked? You need Job-Seeker Anonymous. Admittance is the first sign to addiction and getting help. Call today for help. There's millions like you out there and there's people that want to help you"; if you have any money saved that is!
There's just so many spots under the interstate for people to live. How do you become the perfect fit that enables you to become a contributing member of society or end up a collector and contributor to the deficit? How much does a person have to endure to become noticed and quit being a donkey that's pulled without a rope just to see how far you can be pulled?
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