Looking for work must be part of God’s plan to build patience in people. The waiting to hear news about job applications entered or interviews results is the hardest part of job hunting. It starts with not hearing much of anything. Job application after job application goes in with little or not response. Some do send a note:
Thank you for your application, but we have decided to go with someone that is infinitely more qualified, better looking, and is just a all around better specimen of a human being.These usually come about two or three weeks after you have lost any knowledge about ever putting in the application. If I’m lucky, a search of my records provides that link, “Oh yes, I see I did apply for that company. “
The next step, sometimes, is the phone interview. Apparently, these have no social implications of providing response back to the interviewee. At least I have never received a note saying:
Thank you for your phone conversation. We have decide to go with a person with much better tonality. Also in the future we would suggest going with a mobile carrier with a little better sound quality.The response from the phone interview would be getting a request for a second interview. I’m not sure the rational length of time one should hold on to hope of getting a positive response from a phone interview. My longest is two months, so I have decided to give up hope on all phone interviews that don’t get back to me within 3 months.
Getting a second interview from a first interview is new territory for me and I’m in the wait mode right now. Based on my questioning in the interview, a response could have been receive (best case scenario) last Friday. I’m pretty sure this is one of the special Buddhist levels of hell—the waiting for a interview response hell realm.
I use all sorts of methods to cope; or should I say my torture devices all exist in my own mind and include methods such as:
- Putting it out of mind—just refuse to think about it. This can only work for so long.
- Praying—trying to illicit outside help or influence using my more Christian beliefs. This is mixed with guilt of asking for such trivial selfish desires.
- Reviewing the interview—reviewing the interview for the millionth time trying to understand what could have discounted something.
- Timeline review—my interview happened here, let’s say they are interviewing 5 people, they complete here, and I should get called just about, ah, let’s see…, now. It is amazing how complicated I can make these timelines.
- I should have…—making up actions that I should have done to be more successful. (I should have bought the $2 Thank You cards and not the ones on sale for $1.57)
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials."
-- Chinese Proverb
I hear you Chris, I am at my wits end over what to do next. I keep telling myself there is something out there for me.
ReplyDeleteI had one interview with a food company last week, and he got what it is I offer a company though my resume. It was for an inside sales position, which I later found out lead to being an outside sales person. This is something I do not want to do any more.
I did talk up the idea of begin value to the inside position, and that is not what the company is looking to do. The thing is he got what I was offering to do. The question I now ask myself is if the guy at the food company got it why is no one else getting what I offer ?
I find it hard some days, I send out many resumes and hear crickets. Your not alone out there.
Joseph
I like that term "hear crickets". Takes me back to living in Montana. Now it's just the ringing in my own ears that I hear when it quiet. :)
ReplyDeleteHang in there Joseph, you'll find it.