My personal record is over 12 years.
I applied for some temp work, doing building work (among other things). At the time I was at university, so wanted to make money in my time off. I never heard back from that particular agency, and wrote it off as a bust.
Cut to a decade after finishing uni. I get a random call, to see if I am available. I’m now a veteran freelancer, in a highly specialist field, so I’m used to being cold called with work offers. It quickly becomes apparent that they are not talking about my field however.
I eventually got enough info out of them to realise where the info must have come from. Even funnier was how annoyed she was that I hadn’t made them aware I was no longer available! I don’t know which is more impressive/disturbing, that they kept my application for that long, or that they were so short handed that they managed to get that deep into the pile of old applications!
how annoyed she was that I hadn’t made them aware
Just wait until they hear about how they failed to inform you of anything
In 2009 I posted my resume to one of those websites, thinking little of it. I’d recently been fired and had wound down my savings. I thought at worse I’d get offers I wasn’t interested in and at the time really, I needed anything.
My friends, without ever having applied for a single job, having no sales plastered all over that resume, and it being now 15 years out of date, I still get the occasional cold call for an outside 10-99 sales position based on that resume and that resume alone.
I have, in that time, been fired from two more call centers, finished school, found an offline job, decided that office work wasn’t for me, gone back to school, started a career in the trades, and found my tribe.
for my current job it took 4 months between my application and the phone call telling me I’ve been accepted, but then they wanted me to start next week lmao
I’ve had a similar experience. Did you start the following week?
yeah. You?
it’s a good job too. I got extremely lucky.
I hate job hunting with a passion.
Yeh. Bit annoyed but all worked out.
I spent months searching then accepted a job and moved to another state. 3 months after starting new job, a company I really liked asked me to come interview. I laughed and told them if they wanted me they shouldn’t have waited 7 fucking months to reply.
They see us like cattle.
My personal record was 9 years. I had actually accepted different job with the company and they moved me across the country. I left for a role with another org after 5 years or so. A couple years later they reached out to offer me an entry level position.
I still get emails from jobs boards I put my resume up on like 10 years ago. Sorry, no I’m not interested in your part time or entry level position anymore.
When I hear back from a recruiter, and they sound desperate, and I’ve already moved on with my life and gotten much better work than a recruiter could possible give me, and I get to sit down, take a deep, cleansing breath, and write them a very long-winded and formal rejection letter.
I’ve got a form letter that I always leave one <insert company name here> in to reply because I’m petty and want them to know that I’m out here rejecting offers. They all want me to work on printers.
Honestly, this baffles me. I work in K12 as a CTO, and when hiring techs or network admins, I always let applicants know during the interview when I will make the hiring decision, and they will receive an official letter of regret if they are not hired. I always keep resumes on file, as you never know if other opportunities come up. Why would any organization want to burn bridges with potential hires?
Maybe it’s just me being Gen X, but not hearing one way or the other would prompt me to pick up the phone, and at the very least check back to ask if they’ve made a decision after a week (maybe two) if I’ve interviewed…
Being on the applicant side, you almost will never hear from or speak to a human. There is no way of validating what the result of the job wound up being. Was it filled, cancelled, did the company die? Likely filled, but often you won’t even get an automated response for 6 months. I haven’t been on the applying side in almost a decade, but I recall submitting something like 50 applications a week. I’d usually get a call back for a role or two every other week, and out of the 12 or so interviews I landed, 5 went to second interviews, and I received 2 offers. I was still fairly early career then but the hoops I had to jump through just to land a call was insane! Don’t get me started on hiring processes now, my company requires video resumes for outside applicants. It’s so unnecessary! Sorry for the word wall!
Now it’s more like 50 apps per day, 2 interviews, 0 offers. Except for the MLM that you didn’t realize was an MLM. They always give an offer.
lol, the offer is pay $200 starting fee to your upline before we send you to brainwashing “training” sessions. “Before you know it you’ll be raking in millions!” I had a buddy of mine fall into an MLM after failing to sell his handmade creams. I think he’s still trapped in it while his wife works her ass off to make ends meet with their two kids. Feel bad for her more than him. But more angry at MLMs, truly scummy.
Yeah, it’s disgusting. And I didn’t realize how many industries have MLMs. I always basically thought it was Tupperware and makeup. Boy, was I wrong.
I work in K12 as a CTO,
Come on mate.
K12: Klingon sector 12
CTO: Certified Teleporter Operator
This hits hard for me. The survey is the first thing I’ve heard from them. I keep a tracker of places I’ve applied to and when, and note when I get rejected or called for any interview. I still have applications open from a year ago.
Yesterday I got an “application experience” survey from a company I applied to last October. When they asked me “is there anything else you’d like to share” I told them that they need to get a little more disciplined about following up with candidates.
So frustrating.
Young Charles made me think of this Simpsons quote. Those purebred royals, man.
Kinda fucked up, dude didn’t choose his parents.
No other comment or defense of the monarchy implied, only that it isn’t cool to make fun of people for shit they didn’t/can’t choose.
Like, you wouldn’t make fun of someone with the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome
It’s like you don’t know me at all.
It says on your chart that you’re fucked up, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.
Great movie but lame reply to use in every day life. You aren’t a movie character
You’re reply and downvote made it truth.
I love it when they get pissed at you like you are wasting their time. Fuck off Susan its been 4 years.
Personal record is 2 and a half years
I applied for a job at a restaurant at 16 (literally days after my birthday) and the phone call they gave me basically boiled down to “if you can get here in the next hour you have the job”
I was desperate so I accepted. I worked there for 3 miserable years before quitting.
When I was 20yo I applied to work at my local Mac reseller. The owner kept me on a line for so long that I turned 21 and got a part time gig at a liquor store. We were putting up shelves (new store) and receiving shipments when he called and asked if I was ready to work for him. I told him he was too late.
I’m grateful that it worked out that way because my life is pretty great and I wonder what series of different events would have occurred had he hired me. I bet I wouldn’t have got off my ass and moved to the coast as quickly as I did. All kinds of opportunities might have been missed.
I’m still getting replies from recruiters addressed to a name that I haven’t used in years.
Last year I got a reply like three weeks after I’d applied, offering an interview for a job below the one I’d applied for (which I already had experience in). I got sarcastic and they replied in a huff.
Where is his jaw?
He’s an inbred German dickhead, he doesn’t have one
