Why Didnt You Get That Job Dont Waste Your Energy Asking the Hiring Company

Why Didn’t You Get That Job Don’t Waste Your Energy Asking the Hiring Company If you’ve never felt any of the following during your job search, you are not human: frustrated, depressed, angry, confused, guilty, sad, victimized, stupid, humiliated, embarrassed, lacking confidence. In my three decades of hiring, mentoring and assisting job seekers, I have yet to meet someone who is thrilled and motivated by any aspect of a job search. Searching for a job is hard. No, VERY hard. It triggers negative emotions, especially if you are unemployed. But the same holds true for those employed and searching within their own company or who need to make a move outside their company. Think about it. You are selling yourself as a product to employers who are the “buyers.” They are the decision-makers, with multiple applicants to choose from. It is not clear exactly what the employer is looking for, if they are even looking at you, or why you are not chosen. In school, the team captains picked the best players and nobody wanted to be the last person standing. Worse, in the job search world, only one gets picked and many others are not. There is no transparency into what is going on during the hiring process, either. You don’t know if your application or résumé is being reviewed, went into a black hole, or got discarded. And you will never know. Even if someone looks at your credentials, you will not know why you didn’t get the interview. Then, even if you had an interview, you won’t know why you didn’t get the job. There are multiple inexplicable reasons why you didn’t win a specific job, but here are some of the most probable: The job went to an internal candidate, someone already working for the company, or already within that department. They hired another external candidate who had stronger skills. They are still looking since they didn’t find anyone who met their criteria. They decided not to fill this job at this time. Or they changed the specification and re, challenges and questions any time. I’m here to help!