How many times have you, when job hunting received a message similar to ‘Unfortunately you have not met the full criteria for this role and therefore shall not be shortlisted’. or ‘We have decided not to continue with your application for this role’.
Some of the above messages are auto generated of course as ‘possible employers’ and recruitment agents like their standard messages rather than the personal touch.
It can be useful to find the reasons behind our unsuccessful failure, so we can adjust our applications or take remedial action but this is rare. How many are going to be honest with us anyway and say it’s because they want a younger model or don’t want to have to pay for experienced workers?
This causes irritation and is disappointing of course, but are we fooling ourselves if we deny these forms of (age) discrimination exists in the job market? Our response in such situations should be resolute, to press on and not give up, ever hopeful that our turn will come…
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