7 Little-Known Reasons You're Not Getting Hired

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Yes I also agree. There is a time and place to wear such clothes, a bar or party with friends. I am also not into looking cheap and be treated like a woman who is easy and looking for someone to date.
I am there to do the job, because I can, not because I want the abuse,sexual advancements and to be married off so I don't have to work.

Irene McNeill of MT 12:35PM November 19, 2010

It is not only how you look, but what you are wearing. Maybe I don't want to wear that short, short skirt or low cut blouse and spiked heels. Sure I am a woman, I know that and you can tell that from miles away, I may have the body to wear the look. But I want to be taken seriously, professionally and I want respect.

June Hill of MO 12:29PM November 19, 2010

Yes, its a shame that there are two ways to believe employers are entertaining.

danton of WA 5:50PM September 20, 2010

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http://www.jobsearchshortcut.com

Al of CA 11:18AM May 18, 2010

You are intelligent, literate, and dress well, but you are 20 pounds overweight...Believe me I have seen it happen and it sucks!

Rhonda Mort of IN 6:14PM May 14, 2010

They do exist. And even people who make mistakes sometimes -- not that *I* ever have ;-) -- can still get jobs. Keep trying. Keep working at it. Keep trying new things. Be tougher than you ever thought you could be. Take a break sometimes. And read Working Girl, lots!!

almostgotit.com of TN 12:42AM May 14, 2010

#8
There are NO JOBS OUT THERE!

Not getting hired 2 of CA 7:08PM May 13, 2010

Yes, the job market is horrible, and even extremely qualified candidates can't get jobs that don't exist. If (I hope) that was your point, I agree with that.
But if your resume and cover letters (and answers to interview questions) are as utterly unintelligible as your post here, don't expect to be hired for any job that requires any communication of any kind, in any language.
Seriously, Chicago aldermen (and Da Mare, like His Late Fodder Da Udder Mare) have better grammar, spelling, punctuation, and logical flow than your comment does. You appear to have typed random half-thoughts until you ran out of energy or computer time. I seriously have no clue what you are trying to say, and I make my living decoding the inarticulate. In short, WTF?

Dan of IL 3:10PM May 13, 2010

I read your article with interest on not getting hired and all I have to say is that it is a rediculous assumption about the email address part of using a funny name as an email address because I have used my real name on my emails and I still do not and still and not getting hired even by using my real name in or on the emails, being passed over recruiters saying are using the internet in order to scour and target people for non-hires in what they percieve as potential problems by using the personal pages online (Twitter, Facebook) of the people that they want to and wish to hire but don't and are not hiring and this causes problems in and of itself such as because the companies themselves use the internet now in order to take applications, they do not do or use paper applications anymore, after all due to the economy at the current time there are at least 1 MILLION people out of work in Orange County California right now and no relief is being given to them as the unemployment rate is at 9.9 percent. "Anytime the Unemployment Rate is above 5 percent then the country is in trouble. Even the Governor of the State of California is cracking jokes about how people are being treated even from other states such as Arizona because of his nationality. "This is Discrimination and it's supposed to be against the law".
By the way: "I dislike recruiters anyway because of their policies and procedures". The ways in which they do business is wrong in many respects,
"If the policies and procedures do not work then change the policies and procedures because you are the company that wrote those policies and procedures and you are using the wrong model/s for your policies and procedures. So change the policies and procedures.

Dennis of CA 2:34PM May 13, 2010

Glad to see 3 on this list. I struggle with this one and it bothers me my resume' is loaded with them. This is an opprotunity for me to dig deeper and create a richer cover letter.

Barry of AZ 10:38AM May 13, 2010