TEN REASONS WHY I HATE LOOKING FOR A JOB

TEN REASONS WHY I HATE LOOKING FOR A JOB

“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” –Author Unknown

Ever since I can remember I have always tried to have my own business and not depend on the paternal corporation for my existence. But occasionally my business might slow down and I would try to see if I can get a traditional job. But the process of looking for that job and all the processes that you have to go through is sickening and just puts me off. Everybody is acting and being phony. From the onset they know they are not going to hire you, but let you play all that silly games.

Now reason with me. I have a talent, I am educated and have the experience that is required for a company. Why does it have to come across like the one who is interviewing me is superior to me?. Why does the interviewer come across like I should beg for that job.  I think the whole job seeking process needs to be overhauled. We are living in the 21st century and job seeking is still one of the areas that it seems like we are living in the dark ages.

Let me give my 10 reasons why I hate looking for a job:

1. The Resume - suppose to be a summary of your educational background, your experience. But no - you are supposed to include some buzz words so that you can impress the HR people. Because of this there is a cottage industry teaching people how to use those fake buzz words - Here is what I mean

"Assembled a team of five auditors that conducted a Sarbanes Oxley audit of financial operations in less than three weeks.

Eliminated nearly $5 million in operating expenses by consolidating IT contracts under one vendor.

Launched several new product extensions and offerings, resulting in an increase in sales revenue of nearly $15 million over a five year timeline".

Here are some buzz words we are supposed to use: Accomplished, achieved, acquired, adapted, addressed, administered, advised, allocated, analyzed, applied, appointed, appraised, approved, arbitrated, assembled, assessed, assigned, assumed, assured, audited, authored, awarded

2. The long application process - You spend the whole day completing the tedious and long application process - asking you all those silly questions; you submit the application and nobody even bothers to acknowledge your application. I believe that companies don't value your time  and treat you like nothing. If they were really serious somebody from that department will call or email to acknowledge and schedule a follow up or eliminate you from consideration. This is just courtesy human behavior.

3. The Interviewing process - Everybody knows it is a fake interviewing process - the candidate is supposed to answer the questions with canned answers and whosoever is able to perform and lie their way through is able to impress the interviewer gets the job. What a joke? There are people who are good performers and are able to lie their way to good jobs. It happens all the time. Forget about it if you happen to be a foreigner and have an accent!!

4.  The background check - Yes it is all right to do a back ground check. But the wait and unresponsiveness from the companies does not make sense.

5. The second interview process  - where they don't even let you know that you are competing for the job with other candidates so that they can tell you immediately that they will not hire you. I don't know why they HR people will take their sweet time to inform you the results when they know  from the  beginning that they were not going to hire you.

6. Minimum wage - jobs are also requiring resume!!!

7. Temporary Agencies - are the worse culprit in the hiring process -  they let you take all these aptitude test, and all kinds of examinations that have nothing to do with your skill and knowledge as it relates to the job you are applying.  For example, your job as a word process was eliminated after working 21 years for a company. Why do you have to go through all the hoops to starting working. I have experience, honesty, integrity, dependability etc., Why do I need to go through the whole laborious process again.

8. After all the process - the silly application process - the fake interviews - then you receive a rejection letter that make you feel like a failure. Another thing is they let you float in the sky before they email or sent you that stupid form letter rejecting your candidacy.

9. Travelling to interviews - I believe that people looking for jobs  should be paid when they attend interviews for their transportation expenses

10. Salary - Companies ask about your salary requirements, but I know they know what they are going to offer. Just come up with a range of salary and negotiate a reasonable salary that both of you can live with.

The following sums it all up:

"Hello. Are you looking for a job within our company? Well we do have an opening for an IT professional. The requirements? At least five years of experience, references, a resume, cover letter, proper degree and education. Oh we also need your address, phone number, social security number, age, sex, ethnicity, race, religion, etc. The pay is minimum wage. Why you ask? Well, we are a business and we need to make sure we are running at full capacity and making as much as possible. How else do you think America is still the number one country in the world? We, the corporations, have been keeping it alive since the days of Rockefeller. Through thick and thin we have exploited all possible loopholes to make this country shine. If you feel that this company is right for you, please fill out the online application with all of your personal information. We will contact you if we find that you are a good fit in our business, no promises though. I do hope you have a great day in our great country".