The Human Job Candidate

The Case for Remote Work Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic that the entire world faced as a whole, including the non-believers, the need for companies to continue operations strengthened. Restaurants, coffee shops, salad shops, etc. opted for app delivery services or takeout/takeaway as an option. The healthcare industry had all hands on deck to the detriment of healthcare workers mental and emotional well-being. Office roles gave their teams the option to work from home. In each scenario, members from these aforementioned work environments really took the time to reevaluate and reconsider what it means to have a role that pays well while also catering to their skills set.

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