The Human Job Candidate

Learning Lessons Whether you're starting out in your career, or you're further along on your path, the best takeaway from any role is what you learn from it and how you become a better human as a result.  That doesn't mean that you need added on-the-job training. It's more to say that you can strengthen your résumé—or CV—as well as adding to your experience as you move from one role to another.  Your life shouldn't have to revolve around work, and work-life balance must be the norm. The More You Grow, The More You Know Reflection on your experiences is how you grow and evolve as a human, a friend, as a professional, and in society. In the start of my career, and it has changed over time, I felt willing to do anything to show my value and my worth. I would take on more hours, find ways to be more efficient, be willing to help others in any aspect at work even if it was out of my wheelhouse. As a first-generation child of immigrants who didn't say "no" t

The Game Rejection is part of the game, unfortunately. Or, you could be applying to a ghost job , where a company isn't really hiring, but using the job listing as a front to show that "they're doing well".  There could be a computer reading your résumé/CV, that's full of qualifications that made you apply to the role, which doesn't see the right key words to push your résumé forward to the HR department's recruiter.  It could be a spam job listing on LinkedIn from H&R Block, for example, as one specific key word in your search brings up 28 pages of roles that don't even contain your key words from your search.  I promise you, that's a thing! What in my qualifications did not exactly align? Is there a perfect candidate? The elusive "we regret to inform you that we pursued another candidate for the role" is super vague, at best.  Yes, you read the bullet points.  Yes, they matched your qualifications.  Yes, you included a cover letter