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They took the human out of it. But they added disrespect.
I have applied to forty jobs. I got one interview.
It was a cattle call. Seventy people in one room for three positions. They lined us up and ran us through because it was easier for them that way. I sat there with decades of sales experience next to kids who had never done the work, people still working on their degrees, and older folks like me. It made no difference. None of it did. Nobody in that room was a person. We were a pile they were sorting.
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I was humiliated, and treated horribly, like everyone else. They told us they ran it that way because that is how the big companies are doing it now. And have the big companies ever treated us right? No. They never did. But this was not a big company. This was a small, family owned business. Family run. I am learning that family owned means nothing anymore. It is a calling card they hang over the door to pull customers in. The worst treatment I have ever gotten, and the least understanding anyone ever showed me, came from a family owned business, and the owner showed me that himself.
Most of the time now, no one looks at all. A machine reads your resume first. They call it applicant tracking software, ATS. It matches your words against the job posting, and if the words do not line up, it throws you out.
I have had short jobs. Six months at a stretch, a couple of times, because my mother was dying over seven years and there are things you do not walk away from. Try explaining that to a room that already stopped looking.
I have never had this much trouble finding work. Decades doing this. I am good at sales as my resume shows. And it is not the good jobs doing this. It is all of them, top to bottom.
If a company will not spend the time to find one good person, one on one, it should not be hiring. Maybe it should not be in business.
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The sad part is, I would have never left my last job. But the owner was unable to show understanding for family obligations, the one thing family owned businesses are supposed to be known for.
They took the human out of it. But they added disrespect.
— Neon