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Re: No response to job applications, resumes sent: - Zircon
Posted: Feb 24, 2010
I've sent out a few resumes over the past year in hopes of landing a different MT job than the one I have now. Only ONE place (a hospital I would dearly love to work for!) even acknowledged my application. The others? NOTHING. Even though they continued to run ads for the same job I had applied for. I never even got to test for any of them.
So.... fast forward a few months (or years). Suppose one of these no-response companies kept my resume and out of the blue, called me and offered me a job? Would I accept it? NO WAY. Even if I were out of work and currently looking, I would NEVER re-apply or test for a company that blew me off originally. If they don't show even that tiny bit of respect for potential employees, even if they don't need their services at that time, then what kind of respect or fairness would they show to someone who actually DID work for them? Very little.
The fact that those places where I had applied and been blown off are STILL running their desparate-for-help-sounding ads, a year or more later, sure tells me a lot about how happy their current employees must be. Turnover there must be almost daily.
Years ago I had a side business of my own, and one of my clients flaked out on me and didn't pay me after the work was done. I tried repeatedly to collect, but no luck. It wasn't much money, and I was too busy with other clients that DID pay me, to bother with small claims court. So...... about a year later, kharma came back around to bite him in the arse one day, when a dire emergency arose and he needed my services immediately. He said he was sorry about the prior incident, and would pay me double my fee if I could help him out. What I told him was not fit to print, but use your imagination. Man, was that ever a cathartic, get-even moment. 
It's a shame but obvious in some of the job ads - that they get applicants
[ In Reply To ..]Who do not have the equipment, experience, want more pay than advertised, etc. but apply anyway which is a waste of the MTSO's time. These companies get thousands of resumes and probably even offshore ones at that. You can usually tell by the ad what responses they've gotten since they post things like "don't waste your time asking can you do this remote?" That is just one example.
It probably has nothing to do at all with your skills, it just so happens they hire, and then the rest of the e-mails get trashed until they need help again.
I'm sure another MT came along and did the work you were not willing to do for your non-paying client; it happens every day; trust me.
It's so sad but it's so true!
Just so you know: I applied for mostly inhouse jobs, - using their equipment, not mine. sm
[ In Reply To ..]The MTSO I applied with, I not only had the right equipment and 35 years of experience, but 25 years in the specialty they wanted the MT for.
The ONLY thing I didn't have that the ad asked for was "3 to 5 years' experience". Money was never mentioned in the ad, nor in my resume. I think my honesty about how many years I've been doing this kinda spooked 'em.
Lesson learned. Next time I'll delete most of my past employers, and just tell them I've been doing this 5 years.
many ask only about the employment hx of the past 10 years - .
[ In Reply To ..]why would you immediately give your age away? Taking about age discrimination, does it really not exist?
If they ask for it, they can have the 10-year info. - As for my age, not until I get an offer.
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No response - itype2
[ In Reply To ..]Did you followup with any of the places you applied to, I would think if you wanted the job bad enough you would have done that. Personally, if I were offered a job out of the blue from somewhere I had applied previously that I thought had forgotten me, I'd probably jump at it. The place where I work receives as many as 400-500 resumes for one open (non-MT) position. I think it's expecting a lot to ask them to respond to everyone who applies. It's a very competitive job market, I don't think we have the luxury of blowing off legitimate job offers.
Ive made that mistake in the past, but not anymore. - From now on, I will follow up with a call. nm
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