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I do well in interviews so I haven't had a problem, but I find that the determination of whether the job is a good fit is best ascertained through an interview with the department managers or partners. I have not been unemployed since graduating from college, so I have not dealt with the issue of explaining away gaps in a resume - I would probably just hang my shingle out and start my own little CPA practice if that were to happen.
I don't get interviews through HR, I find out how to contact the hiring manager and make my case. In my case, being 50+ most HR people wouldn't give my CV the courtesy of a glance. So whatever interviews I do get are through research on the hiring managers, direct correspondence and diligent follow-up. I do get interviews for some nice gigs and although I've been beaten out for those jobs, when I see who they actually hired, it's always a pretty big hitter in that field (experience with bigger industry names than what I can offer), not skills alone. But I'm in the game and as it's a numbers game I'm confident something will pop. I recently participated in a pretty awesome webinar on becoming a LinkedIn power user which is also paying dividends.
After 20+ years in corporate I started a retail biz a few years ago. I sold that biz to go back to corporate paydays but have so far only managed to get project work on 1099 status. So I've been ineligible for unemployment since 2001 - thus it's impossible to sit around a collect a check.
How do I spend my day - I have a consulting shingle out. I get 50% of my income from that and 50% from P/T jobs I take that allow me to spend 4-5 hours/day doing job research. I've also started a small niche business in a second career - I've got five sources of income that bring in between $5K and $15K each. It keeps the lights on, but isn't a substitute for a six-fig income.
Guessing in this case incompetence=not hiring you.
But of course. If one is not hired for a position, it must be the fault of the employer doing the hiring. Or their HR department. Or because another candidate spent time on the hiring manager's couch or whatever.
I mean, there is no way that another candidate simply could have been more qualified.
In all honesty, the secret to getting hired which you won't see in any articles is looking very excited to be in the presence of the person who is interviewing you.
Once the interviewer sees that, I will bet my rent for the rest of the year that they will not care WHAT YOU WERE DOING while you been unemployed.
First of all unless the job was in Human Resources the nice folks in personnel do not hire people. The questions and concerns about the lazy unemployed candidates who spend all their time collecting benefits and watching television instead of building up their job skills were the hiring managers. Again... the hiring managers did not like the unemployed candidates.
Not like that where I worked. HR commands all the questions that are asked. The one who accompanies the managers in interviews asks just as many of those questions as the managers do, AND she partakes of more involvement in the selection process than she should. It's been that way for about 20 years I worked there and, of course, there is much resentment for it. Apparently they consider themselves the experts in selection, yet they've made some pretty big blunders in judgement.
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Folks. The OP is a troll and is just stirring the pot every so often with a post to keep everyone going in this subject.
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