Modern Job Hunting

[zosh]

I abso-frickin'-lutely hate how job hunting is done now.  There's no personal interaction.  One sends their resume and cover letter via a website to a nameless entity only to receive a rejection email from some other nameless entity.  It sucks! 

Comments

[malterre]

It is terrifying-especially when you hope it's a legit company and not "hidden Amway"
I will still keep my eyes open for you

[zosh]

Oh, it was a legit company. Harvard, in fact. I wanted the job very badly, but they did not want me.

[maystone]

It's more like they didn't want your resume, since they never took the opportunity to meet you. Boy, that really sucks. Is everything that way now?

[zosh]

So far, it seems. I've filled out numerous online job applications and also had to include my resume and a cover letter. No names of anyone at any of the companies, just anonymous hiring managers. It really sucks. Jesse seems to think they used a computer program to match my resume to their job ad and if certain keywords weren't there, I was out. Scary!

[fbhjr]

Sometimes the auto-reject only takes minutes.
It is very sad to have hope last so little time.

[zosh]

Exactly!

[fbhjr]

If there is a place where you want to work, try and find a staff list on the internet. (Linkedin can be good for that. i used it a lot.)
Find someone with a job title that looks like it would be someone you would want for your boss, and send it directly to them.
Almost all the feedback I got last year was from doing that. Most of that was people saying "I don't have anything open, but I'll keep you in mind". But, it was reaching a person. And, one of the consulting jobs I got was from doing that. I searched for "manufacturing companies" in towns around me and looked up the companies that came up.