reply to post by whoshotJR
You can disagree with as much as you like, but it doesn't take away from the experiences that some of us have gone through. Not everyone who has been
laid off is bleeding the system. Thank God I have a job now, but when I was laid off I was driven and hungry and tailored each resume as best I could
to each company I was applying for according to what I thought they were looking for and what I could offer. In the end, most companies (except the
one I now work for) had problems either with my lack of or large amount of experience (they were either looking for greenhorns who knew nothing that
they could pay less or people with the experience of a CEO for mid-level positions) and the fact that I had worked in multiple fields (three) of the
same discipline instead of limiting myself to just one for 10+ years. No offense to the hiring process, but when you start taking people out of
consideration because you
think they don't have enough experience or too much, or have tried to make themselves as marketable as possible by
working in different fields, you set yourself up for situations like the OP - especially when you simply look at a piece of paper and don't actually
talk to them. Some people are trying to bleed the system and do only what they have to in an effort to keep the unemployment checks coming, a lot
aren't.
Another part of the problem IMO is that a lot of companies absolutely fail to sell themselves to qualified applicants. In as much as prospective
applicants should do everything in their power to sell themselves, it's also generally expected that a company with an opening they want filled will
sell themselves to that applicant if they're going to bother with an interview. That happens very rarely these days.
