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After being unemployed for almost a year and collecting unemployment insurance for 49 weeks, I feel like I am living in a horror movie. I have cut my expenses down to the bone and because of some odd jobs, savings and unemployment insurance I am doing fine financially. But the lack of a job is killing me.I have devoted my self to getting a job, and send about 8 hours a day to networking, interviewing, sending out resumes, going to job fairs and making phone calls. So far I have accomplished nothing, just failure.I have also attended seminars on job hunting, had my resume reviewed and revised by two different experts, done mock interviews with a consultant, and read about every book I can find on job hunting. Again, every thing I have done has come up dry.Here is my question: If you go to a job interview and want the position and are not hired, do you blame the company for inefficient hiring processes, yourself for not being impressive enough or the economy and the terrible job market. I know all are in play but what gets most of the blame?
Yeah, really. Come on, hon.--come up with a new forum to hunt. Three names, no rep points=the same troll.
You think being unemployed is a joke? Something to make fun of? You're just creating bad karma for yourself.
Here is my question: If you go to a job interview and want the position and are not hired, do you blame the company for inefficient hiring processes, yourself for not being impressive enough or the economy and the terrible job market. I know all are in play but what gets most of the blame?
I blame myself for not doing well enough in the interview to get hired. I know I have the skills to do the job, but I need to improve my job seeking and interviewing skills in order to get a job.
If I don't get a job, I need to accept the responsibility for not getting the job, rather than blaming outside forces. Successful people assume responsibility for their actions and what happens to them.
I completely agree with the above, its the person who is to blame for being ill prepared. I think you should try and put yourself in the shoes of recruiter and try to think and find out what they might be looking for in a potential candidate?
I blame myself for not doing well enough in the interview to get hired. I know I have the skills to do the job, but I need to improve my job seeking and interviewing skills in order to get a job.
If I don't get a job, I need to accept the responsibility for not getting the job, rather than blaming outside forces. Successful people assume responsibility for their actions and what happens to them.
I'm exactly the opposite though I don't blame the employer either. If I didn't get the job, it isn't because of my interviewing skills, it is because I wasn't the right person for the job. If they want skills A, B, and C, and I have skills C, D, and E then that's all there is to it.
There's always someone out there with better skills and who is willing to work for less money.
I consider how the interview itself went. If I felt that it went well, and I performed adequately, then I simply think "Their loss." Even if it went poorly, I understand why I might not have been hired, but I still think, "Their loss."
I always blame myself, no matter what. Someone got that job, someone succeeded, and the fact that I didn't means I didn't try hard enough, didn't research the company well enough, didn't plan how I would approach the interview enough, etc.
Blaming someone other than yourself results in nothing productive whatsoever.
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