#JobInterviews #GraduateStruggles #WasteOfTime
Ugh, can anyone else relate to the frustration of being told you’re too inexperienced AFTER being offered an interview? 🙄 It’s like, did you even look at my CV?
But instead of getting stuck in this cycle of disappointment, here are a few tips that might help navigate this frustrating process:
– Clearly communicate your level of experience in your cover letter
– Research the company and tailor your responses to show how your skills align with their needs
– Consider seeking out internships or entry-level positions to gain more experience
Let’s support each other through this job hunt journey! Have you experienced something similar? Share your thoughts below! 💬 #JobSearch #InterviewStruggles
Same here, but am overqualified in most of my cases.
I got an interview for a law firm the other day for a receptionist/clerk role. Made it clear I haven’t worked in law before the interview. My other jobs on my resume were clearly nursing homes.
Get asked if I have law experience during. I say no. Interview ends.
Why.
In my last job, recruiters had to conduct a certain number of phone screens per week, and were threatened with a PIP and possibly termination if they failed to hit that number, so it’s possible these companies have that dynamic in play and the recruiters are trying to fill their schedules to hit quota.
> it right there in my CV. Which you should have read. Given you offered me an interview. Why are you wasting both our time.
This is not automatically a legitimate case of wasted time.
What your resume looks like, is what will peak interest and get you the chance at an interview.
How you respond in the interview will indicate the depth of your experience in a way that the written resume might not convey.
You might have a so-so resume — just good enough to get an interview — and then totally kill it in the interview, because your ability to communicate indicates that your knowledge and experience are on point for what they want.
Conversely, you could have an awesome resume — that gets you all kinds of attention — but when they bring you in to discuss what you’ve actually done, and the manner in which you have been involved, it turns out that you were Robin, not Batman — or Hawkeye, not Iron Man.
And I’m not even dealing with issues of misrepresentation.
Imagine a scenario where your resume shows that you have 7 years experience in childcare, and you’ve applied for a job requiring only 5 years. So far, so good. But, when you get in and start speaking to them, they realize that you have only 1 or 2 years with 3-4 year olds, but most of your time was with infants (0-2), and they need more of a focus on those toddler folks. So, even with 7 years of total experience, for their purposes, they would say that other candidates had **more relevant experience**.
That’s the whole point of interviewing. If everything could really be discerned accurately from just the resume/CV, a lot of the talking would go away. But it can’t, so it won’t.
They are wasting your time to fill their Quota. They know beforehand they are not hiring you.
I swear some companies don’t even open our resume until the interview session. They call whoever that have their resume passed by AI.
They do this to experienced people too. “It says you have 15 years of experience, Peliquin, what made you go for this job, we said we were looking for 20 yoe.”
“It said 10-20, and I felt 15 years gave me the necessary insight for the work, but some room to grow and learn your processes.”
Them: “Oh, well, I’m not sure why the job posting said 10 to 20, or why the recruiter sent you.”
Me: “Cool, I’ll just go now.”
they aren’t wasting their own time, they get paid to interview you whether or not you are even a serious candidate
I’m experiencing the same thing. I believe recruiters are digging for information and the company is required to interview a certain number of candidates for the role.
The difference between recruiting and hiring departments. The market is flooded with people with 1-2 years of experience competing for the roles you are trying for too which sucks extra.
Interviews are to drive recruiter KPIs: “Look at all the interviews I did. Give me a raise/promotion/cookie.”
Sometimes the person who interviews you is the hiring manager of the role whereas the person who selected you for the interview was someone in HR that has no idea about what the hiring department needs.
Or, your resume was selected automatically through some semi automated process that picked key words out of your resume that related to the role open and thought you’d be a great candidate even though you weren’t
Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I guess reading comprehension skills aren’t required to be a recruiter….
This happened to me today. I did an application on LinkedIn. The COO message me saying he would like to schedule an interview and wanted to hear why I wanted to work for the company.
The next day, he sent the “unfortunately…” typical rejection response. I actually ask him why did I get rejected so I can use it as feedback, but off course he didn’t respond. I hate this. Crime looks more beautiful by the day.
Interviewers not reading the CV is so annoying. As OP says, why waste time on an interview if you haven’t reviewed the person’s background?
Reminds me of what I interviewed for an IT job I wasn’t going to take. They got a particular system I didn’t have experience with and ended the interview, despite experience in comparable systems and my ability to learn it in a weekend.
I had an interview that was 8 minutes on Tuesday, I was told what the product was, what the company was, and what the job was at a high level.
You know the basic things you should spend 5 minutes finding out yourself. The things I did in fact research myself. Nothing beyond the job posting and what a cursory google search of the company name could show was revealed to me.
I was asked about myself and my employment; again at a high level. Questions that fundamentally were the point of a resume, and were on my resume.
I asked a handful of extremely basic follow-ups as he started to wrap up that he could not answer. His camera was off the entire time.
I’ve never before *even for an entry level restaurant job* come out of an interview thinking “wow that could have been an email”.
The incompetence is staggering in the hiring process.
Is it me or the whole application and recruitment engagement process just simply sucks compared to years ago.
HR just needs smt to do to make it look like they are doing work
My teenage daughter got an interview at a fast food restaurant and then when she got there they told her she was too young. Her age was clearly on the application. People do not pay attention.