Another rejection.....

[poltr1]

On Friday afternoon, I got a call from a headhunter in Pennsylvania. They had a possibility at one of my former work locations in Cincinnati, doing Livelink administration. (Livelink is a web-based portal application written by OpenText.) As I told her on the phone, I've worked with Livelink, and detailed my work with it, but essentially, I was only a local admin for an engine program and not a system admin. I also sent them a copy of my resume.

This evening, I received a note saying "thank you for your time, but we do need somebody with more ofthe 'technical', hands-on Livelink skills."

*sigh*

Part of me wants to lash out and say to them, "Your loss." or say something about working for their competition. But that's burning a bridge.

Or do I just not interview well?

I'm not going to mention things I didn't do and say that I did them. THat's against my personal ethics. Besides, the truth would come out eventually.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I have the feeling that a lot of people who get hired more easily have less strict ethics about the experience they claim, and I think that it is basically accepted practice to pad your experience: as long as you can do what say you can do, nobody in the IT business cares if you didn't really do quite as much of it in the past as you said. But I, too, feel bound to actually tell the truth about what I've done, and for some reason few people seem to give much credence to my claims that "I haven't done X but I know I could learn it easily". (And most of the people who say it probably are full of crap; but I'm also as honest as I can be in my guesses of how well I can do new things. Learn a new programming language? Diddly simple. Learn my way around your multi-million-line software package I'm supposed to maintain? *AAAIIIIEEE*)

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

Does your local unemployment office offer interview classes?? If so this could be a way to find out if it is your interview skills that are the problem. How about the temp agencies some of them offer such classes.