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I have been out of a hr job for 9months! Last position was a HR manager (for big corp) and can't even get a hr coordinator position!! Guess employers think I would be too expensive? HA at this point I just need to be employed!!! I would take lower pay if it means benefits and a steady income now

Very good article. Very uplifting. I have been looking for a job for almost six months now and this article gave me some closer on how employers thinks and why they make certain decisions.

Excellent and uplifting article. After a number of interviews in which the interviewer asked questions that had nothing to do with the job requirements, or better yet, didn't ask questions because I was "over -qualified", I wonder that companies ever hire anyone. In today's market companies want employees who will work for $7.20 an hour with a master's degree and yet straight out of high school! After the first couple of "No" I realized that it isn't necessarily anything I said or failed to say so much as the lack of the company's ability to see past their own "experienced mediocrity". I now take each lack of interest as proof that I wouldn't have enjoyed working for such a near- sighted company.

Very well written and very supportive of what we all are going through in the job search arena.

I have to add that living in one state that was not an employee at will state and now living in an employee at will state I see a big difference in how employees are treated and what they have to put up with. The one, two, three strikes your out concept makes employers have to be active managers and have to have a good reason to let you go. In an at will state I see supervisors and managers heartlessly let people go with no reason and not caring how they are going to pay their rent or live. They don't seem to know that we care more about our jobs because we feel blessed to be hired and we work hard and its not right to let someone go just because they don't want to play company politics or be sexually harrassed or even screamed at in your face for no particular reason.

I worked HR jobs for years and was amazed when I went into a recruiting position where I nowlive and I was not allowed to hire people that couldn't type a resume well even though this laborer had many years experience in the position and would not even have to type when he was doing drywall. Of course I only lasted one month because I could not recruit in this manner. My percentage of employees I placed in jobs are still in their positions after a decade and my ability to fit a person to a position is great. If I could find a business that needs a person who recruits as I do assisting my clients in everyway possible so they can have along term career I would jumpt to work for that company because they know what true recruiting is about.

Good Luck everyone who is job hunting. I hope you find the perfect home in a great company that will utilize your drive and abilities.

This article made me feel so much better. I've been in a job search for many months and I've never been more disillusioned by anything else in my life. People have promised to call me and don't, they have and contiue to say very unprofessional things, and this process has been just plain "amazing". I guess the world of hiring has lost its warmth and personal side for the cold, anonymous automated system it has become. I supposed that had to happen with so many people being out there and so much unemployment.

Thank you for writing this and validating what I thought was paranoia. To all of you to whom this applies, I wish you the best of luck in your search and please hang in there. You ARE NOT alone. Now you know it!

This was a good article and very timely for my current situation. I was beginning to wonder what I was doing wrong, what I was lacking, but this helped me realize that sometimes it's not you and that I need to keep moving.

I already know this stuff but at times what you know takes a back seat to what you're experiencing. This was an encouraging, well written article. Thanks for the reminders Jeff!