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    I work for my dad, he can't reject me

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    I've gotten rejected before. But that just spurs me on to be better, do better.

    I get interviewed all the time, by clients. And it's been a little difficult to sort of "find" myself. I started off being really really polite and professional and not getting jobs. Then I started being more like myself. A little sarcastic, casual, etc, and I started booking jobs. I think most people can see right through that Professionalism skullskullskullskullskullskullskullskull. I think the same can be said about all areas of life.

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    gets me pissed off by the waste of my time.
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    Oh yeeaahhh.. I have no problems with my interviews, it's just GETTING that interview that I have a problem with. Goodness gracias.. goodness gracias.. brand me with a loser stamp and call me Slappy, but I can't even get one. I've been trying for a few weeks and I got maybe.. errr.. 7-10 applications circulating.

    Not getting anything back from anyone is even worse I would think.. kinda like.. 'ZOMG U PHAIL AT LYKE' ehem.. as some of you with a keen sense of observation may notice, I am frustrated.

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    I've never had an interview, so I've never been rejected. but damn, it ain't half hard to find a place that takes on under 18s these days.

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    i work at CeX now, the interview was interesting to say the least, i had a sore throat and a bad cough...that and i mumble. i somehow got the job still
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    I've been rejected from 99% of the jobs I applied for when I was between the age of 17 and 20. Usually because I use to have a bad studder, which I don't have now.

    I applied for 20 jobs a week and would get an interview maybe once a month or less. I have a job now, years later, but still it knocked a lot of confidence out of me when I was younger because it got so bad and made the studdering worse.

    I decided I would never ever work in a bar again after my last job, I hate bar work and keep going into it, theyre one of the only employer types that seem to be willing to employ me, shops dont like my lack of maths and call centres dont like my accent because they are trying to push a "english people calling call centers in england operated by english people", and that my accent would make the birds on the other end of the line wet themselves.
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    Wal-Mart never rejects anyone ever. But the whole place is batskullskullskullskull crazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
    I've gotten rejected before. But that just spurs me on to be better, do better.

    I get interviewed all the time, by clients. And it's been a little difficult to sort of "find" myself. I started off being really really polite and professional and not getting jobs. Then I started being more like myself. A little sarcastic, casual, etc, and I started booking jobs. I think most people can see right through that Professionalism skullskullskullskullskullskullskullskull. I think the same can be said about all areas of life.

    Uh... I hope that isn't true, because I am just naturally polite around anyone I don't know. Actually, I am even ultra polite around people I know unless they are around me about 12/7. At which point I am bound to become impolite at some point.

    Of course I may be misunderstanding exactly what you meant by polite/professional there.



    I have thrown out more applications than I can count. And I have had at least 4 interviews this year(I don't really keep count, if it doesn't land me a job it isn't important unless I learned something from it). So far I have been rejected by UPS twice. Once due to distance and the other time the recruiter didn't believe I was physically capable of the work(I look like I weigh about 140 or 130 lbs and stand no more than five-foot six at the very most in thick soled boots). It ended up being fairly pointless to convince him otherwise. He wouldn't even believe me when I told him I weighed 165(which at the time was a low-ball figure for my weight, I could have been as high as 175'ish at that time).

    I got rejected from two computer posi<b></b>tions. One was because I, according to my mom, foolishly noted that when I was younger I suffered greatly from a fear of heights but that I now had it conquered. The job would require me to handle wireless and satellite type installations as well as to do maintenance on wireless towers in the area(also normal pc tech stuff, but the acrophobia wouldn't have affected that). They were already planing on training with the installations; regardless of experience(thus the fact that I lacked a previous employer in that regards didn't matter. I easily passed a knowledge test related to the field). However, they were worried that the acrophobia type fear would re-emerge since the recruiter had apparently never heard of someone 'beating' it. *shrug* whatever. I don't like crawling through peoples attics anyways though I would for money. The second interview was for a job posi<b></b>tion that was mis-worded in the paper. It sounded like an entry level job and asked for no more than a HS diploma. However, it turned out that they actually wanted a very high level webprogramming/database/security expert. Was out of my ballpark. We parted on fairly good terms despite my being late due to the fact that construction blocked all conventional roads to the place(I in the end went offroad through the construction zone to get there, dang place only had one way in from the direction I was coming from and that was a little itty bitty backroad that not even most people living there knew about).

    Oh yes, and my first interview was one my dad manage to get me. But dad had misunderstood what they were looking for. He thought it was a basic programing posi<b></b>tion, but they wanted an accountant with a programming background(I didn't have the accounting experience needed). Once again parted on good terms.


    Oh, and Ubel is wrong. Wallmart rejected my mother's application . She couldn't get the interview computer they had her use to work right. She is about 180% computer illiterate. All she wanted was a stocking job or some such (she doesn't like computers, wishes they were never invented and thus won't take a job that involves them to start with).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Randgris View Post
    You lack energy, and your voice was always monotone. Come back here in two~three months
    kinda direct huh? kill him then :P

    anyway, i haven't been rejected much. can't remember right now, i'm really sleepy.
    warning: i am NOT funny.

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    Thank you guys for cheering me up. It wasn;t really a big deal. Although I do regret getting all tensed while talking. And its a 'she' that interviewed me, not a he. The thing that was going through my mind after that was 'there's like 5 more call center agencies I could apply to, I don't need to fret' or anything like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randgris View Post
    My interviewer said "You lack energy, and your voice was always monotone. Come back here in two~three months"
    Well if it was a sales or customer-facing or PR type job you were going for, then that might have been a reasonable reason
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    Nope, wouldn't know what that's like.
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