I’ve filled out several hundred applications since January looking for work and I’ve built what I like to call “application endurance.”
My hard stop used to be uploading my resume and then having to enter the information manually. To me, that was and still is a sign of company inefficiency. Why wouldn’t you want to make it easy for talent to sign up? Now, my hard stop is seeing a 30 minute assessment or more than two interviews for a low paying job.
Today, I listened to a podcast called The Lonely Office and in this particular episode, a candidate went through 11 interviews.
ELEVEN INTERVIEWS.
At the end, he received the usual, “We had so many great candidates, but unfortunately we chose someone else.”
I told a friend that if I go through 11 interviews, I’m just going to show up to HR and claim that I work there. If it takes 11 interviews for you to figure out if someone is for the company, to me that is a huge red flag.
A friend of mine is an animation background artist and she said some companies will disguise work as “tests” of your skill; they tell you to do 6 shots/scenes and some unlucky folks, although not chosen, will see the work they’ve done in show, with no credit.
So, I ask : If you are looking for work right now, what will immediately make you X out the page and move on to the next application?
