It's when I read this whole ad, it looked great... I'm ready to apply and I find out right at the end that I cannot apply for the job! I am not qualified for the job.
Why go through all of this trouble of reading it when you aren't qualified? I think that employers need to step up the game and make sure to add requirements right in the beginning, this way job seekers don't waste their time reading an ad that sounds cool, but won't apply for it in the end because they are under-qualified.
It just makes me think "Thanks person, I just wasted 20 seconds of my life reading your ad that I am not applying for because I don't fit the requirements!"
Something else that I HATE is experience! So many jobs these days... they want experience! Companies that have simple jobs even want experience...It gets ridiculous!
I just applied for a job for Best Buy, and let me tell you... 20 minutes in.. It asks if I have experience in Customer Service or Cashiering and I said no and then it cut me off and said sorry, because I don't have experience I can't apply.
And I'm like "I DID ALL OF THAT JUST TO BE TURNED DOWN!!!!", it was so stupid and aggravating! And as above, they should have put that right into the beginning!
How are you supposed to get a job if you don't have experience? You can't get experience if you don't have a job.... it's a complete ridiculous and unfair cycle of ridiculousness!
All because I or you do not have experience does not mean that we wouldn't be any good! We could be better than other people who have been in the position for years! It's not fair to unjustly cut someone off because they've never done it before!
I get your frustration, it has become really ridiculous. I couldn't land an application on retail because according to them 6 months dealing with people as a reception in the phone and person is not customer service related and then I couldn't get a receptionist job because I needed two years experience.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing, I am here on visa, you know those fancy questionnaires you have to fill just to leave your resume? Well, sometimes I fill several pages of them until the select your visa just to be kicked out because I am not (yet) a resident or citizen.
They really should put the requirements above and bullet, just like they ask of us. We probably waste more time reading their offers than they do skimming through our resumé.