People Share Unrealistic Requirements They’ve Encountered When Trying To Find A Job, Here Are 30 Of The Most Ridiculous (New Pics)

I feel this and i dont have autism. The hiring process rewards extroversion and being a smooth talker above all else. So i cant imagine how shitty it is for folks with autism.

I relate to this on a profound level.

I feel so seen! Have lost so many opportunities because of this. The only jobs I can get are assistant jobs. I hate it! I'm not good with people and I am not a natural care-giver, or conversationalist. Give me tasks, hard or menial tasks and I will crush them. Wish I could find help.

My 2nd last interview I felt so uncomfortable and nervous I couldn't look at her when I was speaking. I was aware of it and told her I wasn't comfortable with direct eye contact. I thought it was social anxiety until my last interview where I felt more comfortable with the interviewer and was able to look in her direction. Now I know my own subconscious signs of when I should just quit the interview.

Apllying for a job is hell, full stop. It is not only if you are autistic it is tormenting, you just have to be a human to experience a lot of what you describe. What most employers are after, simply does not exist, or they are looking for the one in a million person. Furthermore they are rarely aware of exactly what they need, and instead they just write a jobproposal filled with all kinds of fancy buzzwords, so it will be hard to tell exactly what they expect of you. One example is "extrovert" wich you often see in the job proposals. Never ever have I seen the word introverted in there, despite it will the type of personality that is far better suited for many jobs like engineering or accountace and so forth. But no, we all have to pretent to be extroverted, because that is what makes a good impression at the interview.

Question: Do people make up stories on LinkedIn? Because this sounds like it could be one.

His resume gap is none of your business and should not be even mentioned. If someone has the means to take a year off and they want to then they should be able to without having to explain why.

Where is the unrealistic requirement in this one?

As an employer it isn't the gap so much as how you explain the why's and the length of the gap.

I'm sure it hurt him to tell you, but so glad he did, and that you got so much out of it.

Make them wait two months for a reply—-that they decided to hire from within instead.

Companies are losing quality labor due to faulty algorithms needlessly eliminating candidates and due to application systems that fail to function properly or are too convoluted to be reasonable.

YES YES YES

And to see if they're even eligible for any of the job at their own company

Alaska Airlines makes the members of their board of directors eat airline food at every meeting. Serves 'em right...

why does this recruiter even care? tattle-tailing for no reason. what a dildo.

The recruiter didn't check who is talking to, didn't check for which employer he work,... *facepalm*

burrrn!

I adore british insults. "You a**e-faced hat-badger" etc.

This is just funny... Twat.

Thing is, that’s not really profit, it’s just cutting back and reducing your spending. Hell, everyone tightens the belt once in a while, in order to free up money for important stuff. But we loosen it when things get better—-oddly, when a corporation does it, they don’t loosen the belt when things get better, they just call it record profits, even though it’s not. Real profit is when you have a full staff that you pay what they’re worth and give not only merit raises but cost of living raises too (until Reagan, companies did give yearly raises that matched cost of living increases), everything’s covered and is running smoothly, and you sell a big enough fuckton of your product to be comfortably in the black—-without slashing your overhead to do so. Having to cut everything down to the bone in order to cross from red to black is false profit.

It's like that in every authoritarian system. Robbing the country and murdering your own citizens for profit and fun is good - resisting getting robbed or murdered or helping to rob and murder your fellow citizens is evil.

THIS all day long .

We're just going to shoehorn this into every thread we can, huh?

Do not forget ageism. Just because I’m 61 dies not mean I can afford to retire. I missed the boomer gravy train, and have worked jobs that didn’t pay enough to put aside much. Then I went back to school, when I was much older, to get a degree that would put me in line for promotions, and the pandemic hit. So now I’m facing ageism at a time when I share the millennials’ problem of student loans to pay back—-and I no longer have a whole lifetime ahead of me to do so. I’m trying to start my own company, since no one seems to want to even give me an interview, but you know it takes time before it’ll really take off. So I’m pretty much f****d for retiring, and will be working until I drop dead.

Don't make this just about race. There is also age, gender, and disability discrimination. I have heard interviewers comment afterwards about knowing a candidate would not advance because they "just didn't like their look".

Now things swing the other way. You need for days of six hours long interview sessions. It's insane. Not saying racism is good, or that you can tell a good candidate in one minute

I have judged candidates in under 60 seconds of seeing them, but ofcourse did have the interview, hoping my first impressions were wrong. This was entry level servicedesk job and they worked at the same company as me, they were mostly students. Posture, way of dressing, handshake, general body language. They would have to be socially skilled and be able to deal with clients on the phone. Some guys were just buy fit for that. Great techs, smart people, but socially a bit awkward. Not fit a first contact position.

I think you can judge peoples' character once you have had enough experience in life. Looking past their weight, race, height, etc., you can see certain things, like how they stand etc. There's an art to body-language reading. And depending on the job, some people are better suited to this or that. I met an introverted guy once who had great fake confidence body language. He is really good in sales, but totally introverted. Another woman I met in an interview wasn't that great in her CV but confident as a person, and as an employee she worked out great. You place people where they want to be.

Salary so competitive, it will compete with your expenses...

One of the biggest red flags of recruitment of all time... "competitive salary"...

"Competitive"? Not 'Leading', 'one of the best', or even 'above average'. In a race of 10 people "competitive' would count for positions 6-10 so long as last place was within sight of a medal.

This, can't tell you the number of times I've applied someplace and they don't even give a range. Benefits are nice, but if the wage can't pay my bills then what's the point?

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