Rookie numbers. I get emails asking me if I am interested in jobs I haven’t done in twenty years.
I got one not long ago asking if I want to fix printers for $15/hr.
No offense, buddy, but there’s not a time that I would have ever accepted that.
Never had a job I would be so down to do something like this, but instead I have to go through interview after interview just for them to say they found someone better qualified, come on it’s just bussing tables it doesn’t require a PhD 💀
I left out some vital info. I’ve got two decades of IT experience. I said there’s not a time but likely I would have taken it right when I graduated because I was making $10/hr to be out in the sun and get screamed at by a moron. But they wouldn’t have wanted me because I hadn’t been in IT for 20 years at that point.
Good luck, friend! I don’t know the beginning job market anymore so I have no advice, but I really hope things go well for you.
I get this but with college offers.
It’s like “tour our campus this weekend!”. My brother in christ I am 5 years into a 4 year course.
Getting a job is a lot like getting a girlfriend. Your personality matters more than your qualifications.
I usually last about 6 months of masking before I break. The best job I ever had was at a college where seemingly lots of people were “different”.
Sadly the campus closed down.
I can confirm, I’m very charismatic and have a job I in no way deserve but I’m happy doing it.
So yes?
I mean this is exactly it, right? If instead of posting a new job, you canvass the people who applied months ago, then anyone who says yes has been out of work for months and will probably accept whatever shitty wages and conditions you offer. You are guaranteed a strong bargaining position.
This a actually worked out for a co-worker. He interviewed for a position and the interview went of like 6 hours. He waited 6 months and never heard anything. He applied for another position at my company. Different team, lower pay and not in his specialized field. He got that job. Another 3 months and the boss for the first job called him and said their initial hire didn’t work out and asked if he was still interested.
He laughed and said he was already working but would be interested. The boss asked where he was working. He replied “I’m actually down stairs”.
He got the job, more money then the initial offer and he was happy in the new position. Probably an unlikely event and I wouldn’t recommend trying to duplicate it.
The odds of somebody who was interested 6 months ago to be interested today are much larger than the ones of any random person. And you already have their contact, and already made some kind of screening.
The amount of malice people go out of their way to put on other people’s acts is incredible. Nobody cares about you enough to be out to get you. If you don’t want the job, just say it.
This somewhat happened to me. I applied to teach at a college. A bout a year and half later they call me up asking if I was still interested.
I say yes, get the job. New dean comes and then tells me that they have no positions available for me.
