Rejection is hard to take. Those bastards! Don’t they realise I’m perfect for the job?!!
I have a lot of sympathy for people who get angry over job application rejections.
In Adelaide, it’s sometimes due to the fact you are black, an Asian male or you are over 55 years of age.
Don’t get me started on recruiter bias.
More often than not rejection is because you’ve got no achievements or good results in the resume.
These can range from helping a team with a project which had a good result to increasing office efficiency.
If you’ve worked for ten or 15 years and you’ve got no qualitative or quantitative achievements, you have a serious problem.
Employers want to know you are result-focused; that you won’t just work to rule. They want to see initiative.
This is less important for base jobs but people who list achievements will beat a candidate every time who doesn’t.