New Roles
The hiring process has been difficult and there are many things about it that I wish I could say on a public platform, but it wouldn’t be wise if I did. Some might see my thoughts and words as negative and condemning, but I think they need to be addressed. There’s a lot to go through when trying to get a job:
- Applying for a variety of positions and making each one unique takes time. It feels like I needed to put in more than 8 hours a day to adequately write meaningful cover letters, answer questions thoughtfully, and do research on the company/hiring manager to let them know my level of interest.
- Creating the perfect resume and portfolio is endless work, especially when trying to appease everyone. Each company requires a different skill set, so what am I supposed to do? Adjust my resume and portfolio for each one? It’s impossible.
- Recruiters can be terrible sometimes. They don’t want to tell you the hourly rate because they’re trying to keep as much for the company as possible. They haggle. I’ve told headhunters that I didn’t want a job after the interview, and they come back with “Instead of $70 an hour, how about $80?” If you could do $80, you should have said that from the beginning. I’m not making a deal with people like that.
- Recording videos instead of interviewing tells me that the company cares more about themselves than they do about me, especially when I’m asked to give them my salary expectations. That negotiation should be done personally, during a conversation. But, then I wonder, if I don’t answer the question, will they allow me to proceed to the next step? If not, maybe that’s the not the company for me.
There are many more items that I can talk about, and maybe I will later, but for the time being, that’s what my world has consisted of lately. I’m sure many other people have faced struggles like these, so I’m not the first, but I have to voice them somehow.
