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I just don't understand how she can't send a "Thanks but we have nothing at this time type email" rather than hear nothing. My contacts live in another part of the country they won't do the news delivering, that just simply won't happen. Its out of their hands at this point, that's not how this has been set up
I find a few days in with no reply to be strange. Total strangers can get a generic email and I have nothing, no acknowledgment
Total strangers followed established procedures and deserve responses. You tried to do an end run and deserve no response.
getting frustrated by the job search process is a waste of emotion because it's out of your control. Your job is to remain creative and constantly looking for other opportunities that will get you closer to employment.
No, the ridiculous thing is expecting me to give you an advantage in the hiring because my wife's friend's kid needs a job and bypasses the hiring system I set up in order to streamline the process.
I hire people who can read, follow rules and are qualified for my open positions.
Go back to basics
a) Are you even sure they received your resume? Did it reach the right people?
b) Your follow up email - are you 200% sure it did not land in their junk / spam folder?
c) Is the "contact" on vacation?
All of these an easily be solved with a quick phone-call - starting with your Dad and following the chain - who did your Dad send the resume to? Did your Dad receive an acknowledgement that the resume was received.. did that person forward it? When was it forwarded? Would it be okay to call the person it was forwarded to? and so on... follow the chain to its logical conclusion.
HR people get upwards of 500 to 1000 emails each day - if they need to take the time to respond to each one - they would not be getting any work done.
I think you are a bit too anxious here - two things most professionals would not do:
a) Try to deviate from the chain of contact. If you knew the person well enough to send an email, why involve our Dad at all? Since you made the judgement call to go through your Dad, you have to follow that route till it is a dead end.
b) If you thought that sending a "better" cover letter a few days later also makes you seem jumpy and not adequately prepared. You only get one chance to make the first impression. Don't blow it away.
The economy is coming back and if you are qualified enough, jobs will come your way. People want to deal with "agreeable" people and frankly your interaction here with perfect strangers who are trying to help you is far less than "agreeable". Good luck in your search....
Go back to basics
a) Are you even sure they received your resume? Did it reach the right people?
b) Your follow up email - are you 200% sure it did not land in their junk / spam folder?
c) Is the "contact" on vacation?
All of these an easily be solved with a quick phone-call - starting with your Dad and following the chain - who did your Dad send the resume to? Did your Dad receive an acknowledgement that the resume was received.. did that person forward it? When was it forwarded? Would it be okay to call the person it was forwarded to? and so on... follow the chain to its logical conclusion.
HR people get upwards of 500 to 1000 emails each day - if they need to take the time to respond to each one - they would not be getting any work done.
I think you are a bit too anxious here - two things most professionals would not do:
a) Try to deviate from the chain of contact. If you knew the person well enough to send an email, why involve our Dad at all? Since you made the judgement call to go through your Dad, you have to follow that route till it is a dead end.
b) If you thought that sending a "better" cover letter a few days later also makes you seem jumpy and not adequately prepared. You only get one chance to make the first impression. Don't blow it away.
The economy is coming back and if you are qualified enough, jobs will come your way. People want to deal with "agreeable" people and frankly your interaction here with perfect strangers who are trying to help you is far less than "agreeable". Good luck in your search....
Yes it was he sent me an email last night, that the resume was sent out and delivered.
A week is way too short to hear anything back. Don't put your eggs in one basket. Keep looking while you're waiting.
It sounds like you're getting off on the wrong foot already.
Well I hope, in some form I hear something soon.
There's zero negativity here in this situation, I have no idea why some posters think that… maybe it's the way it's worded
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