I checked all the boxes, had the skills and the experience, and everyone seemed to love me in the interviews. So i have a applied to all kinds of jobs not just my dream jobs but also any jobs i feel i am capable of. I made it to the very last step and then ultimately lost the job to someone else.
Why Was I Rejected From That Job?!
Now that i’m doing interviews, potential employers are asking me why left, and i don’t want to necessarily badmouth my previous employer.
I typically say that it didn’t align with my career goals, but interviewers have been following up with questions like “well, why didn’t you stay in your position until you found another job?” should i be honest?
I'd say i left for the right reasons: A development opportunities and my new role pays significantly more than my old job. Fast forward a few months and i feel overwhelmed, a feeling of not being good enough/qualified for my new job. Rejection is a process of growth.
If you get everything you want without struggle, you lose something in the process. People like that become almost unreal in their outlook on life. We need some rejection to try harder or maybe change direction. Make sure to ask for feedback.
Here are some reasons why going back to an old job is a good idea:
You may have left your old job to pursue better financial opportunities. After gaining more experience and a higher salary, you may now have the leverage to negotiate a better compensation package with your previous employer. I decided to use my time identifying lots and lots and lots of jobs, not hand crafting individual submissions with hand wringing worry over cover letters. I blasted out tons of applications in pretty short time.
My theory was that my resume had enough keywords to hit on a few winners. I got hired with an autosubmitted application and no cover Why won’t my old employer hire me back? I applied for a job at my old company where i was liked and successful, but they rejected me.
Let me ask you something real quick—have you ever been stuck in a job that feels more like a cage than a career?
My old job, the one i though Why rejection is so damn painful. I remember when they called and asked why i hadn’t replied to the offer email, they were audibly pissed when i declined. Just wanted an easy menial job to keep me a little busy while attending college, found one at a mailroom making $12 that was closer and worked better with my schedule, didn’t have to interact with the public, all worked out.
I don’t remember my manager’s name for the first one. The third i stayed for 10 years and now i’m at my 4th, where i have been for nearly 5 years. At my last job and my current job, despite promotions, i didn’t switch managers. I have one former manager for a reference and my current manager.
Why would you work on your resume 50 times lol maybe thats why you had so many rejections, you are some tough cookie 100 interviews 4 job offers wow you got balls of steal the point to the thread is people are getting down because its hard right now and interviewing and rejection can take a huge toll on someone self esteem and emotional health
And they still didn't hired me, so why are they accepting my resume if they gonna reject it. That and we're under a resignation movement where people rightly so quiting and take unemployment aid. These people can't afford to jerk people off, it's just stocking products and scan items, not fixing electric box. I initially got rejected at my old job, they later told me it was because the person they went with could start sooner and didn’t have to finish school then move to the city the job was in, it wasn’t anything personal.
Other person didn’t work out, they emailed me asking if i could do another interview, got the job after that. Get an internship part time that helps with your career goal. Because that counts as job experience on a resume. Get another job part time to pay your bills.
Have an end goal in mind.
Do everything with an end goal of being as qualified as possible one year from now when you're applying for your dream starter job. Or apply for that job now. There's no red flags on my resume or online at all. I'm really not sure why my application keeps getting rejected.
A friend who worked for target mentioned that her store really only looks at availability when looking at applications. If you're available when they want, boom, instant interview. I applied to that exact store and still got rejected. I don’t think ups is affiliated with other companies such as amazon, fedex, dhl, etc to hire people.
I applied for the ramp agent in cleveland oh because of, again, my experience.
I need a job asap and i thought i was going to be able to work here. I have never had any bad blood with ups. Why was my application denied? I’m just shy of 3 weeks into the new job, and i miss all my old coworkers.
One of them even came to my wedding last year with his family. My old job was really nice for where i used to live, and my circumstances back then. However, if i ever wanted to have a family or even a house, staying at old job wouldn’t be possible. Why did she reject me and decided not to hire me why have me do 2 in person interviews with 2 different managers why ask me my freaking shirt size, pants size, shoe size why ask me this information when you were never planning on hiring me
I doubt that they rejected you due to the uni situation.
It's more likely related to age/wage and availability. I was rejected four times before being hired by maccas at your age. Perhaps you could try other locations. I encourage you to be very proactive.
The older you get, the harder it can be to break into the job market for the first time. It is not easy finding a good paying job, even with all the skills i developed in the last 7 years of my old job. I'm very grateful for my new job, i definitely earned it after 30 or so rejected interviews. However it's an entry level job and not as high paying as my old one and not full time.
Heck, it's even a lot more work than my old one.
If you’re getting rejected from a large number of companies, check your cv and see if there are any obvious issues or if it highlights skills relevant to the jobs you are applying for. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Once i was screening resumes for an associate attorney to work under my senior partner. We got enough interviewees off our job description that i really didn’t need to book more than 2 weeks’ worth of interviews, which was rough because week 3 brought a letter from a guy who indicated he’d been looking for months, only to get told he was overqualified at every turn;
