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

Your Time and Efforts are Valuable Since November 2022, through the publication of this post, I had sent over 700 applications to a specific role type that catered to my résumé. While some applications received hits, a majority received rejections, or simple ghostings. While a few interview requests came in, and while I did take them, I had myself open to recruiters reaching out to see if I would align with a role they had in mind; some were internal and some were external recruiters. Meeting The Salary Expectations The first was from a company based in California, whose name I can't remember at the moment. The recruiter was internal, and seemed turned off when I gave her my salary range. During our "screening" call, she expressed frustration about the fact that she had to re-post the role several times, a few times with the salary, and a few times without. Needless to say, the times that she posted the role  with  the salary, she had very few—to almost no — applicants. S