Overcoming Road Blocks to Employment

Overcoming Road Blocks to Employment

In this economy, it’s an employer’s market. And, unfortunately, this means it can be much harder to land an interview. There are any number of reasons a person may be told they have been turned down and often those reasons seem unfair. It seems unfair that employers can check your credit rating and use it against you. There are a lot of people who, for no fault of their own, have lost their house, their business or their job. And now their credit rating isn’t what it used to be. To then be turned down because of this can be extremely frustrating and vexing.

Realize that it isn’t a company or corporation that turned you down. Instead, it was a human. And as long as there are human beings, there will be unfairness and differences of opinion. It’s unfortunate, but true. So what can we do about it?

First of all, I find that kicking and screaming, while serving to vent, doesn’t fix the problem and can often make things worse. Following the advice of others, I have discovered that it helps to actually embrace and accept it. Learn from it. That’s the first thing you can do. Just accept that the world can be unfair and move on. If someone rudely cut you off on the freeway, will you think about that person tomorrow or a week from now? And will that person even bother think about you? Probably not! They may already be down the road cutting someone else off!

What you can do is to make it a goal to become a hiring manager one day – one who makes fair hiring decisions. Or remind yourself that if the hiring manager unfairly turned you down (this can be a matter of opinion), you probably wouldn’t want to work for them anyways, right? Keep looking for work. The process is about finding a good match between the company and who gets hired. Part of that responsibility rests with employers. The other part is on you. If you were turned down for an unfair reason, it’s on YOU to move on by realizing this would not have been a good match.

Perhaps it will help to look at it as interview practice, which is a good thing. Even if you were turned down, the practice will make you better for your next interview. Never give up, and I mean NEVER!

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