XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: YourName@YourISP.com
In article , John F. Eldredge
wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:32:25 +1300, Your Name wrote:
> > In article <52e34a9d$0$52778$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional
> > Traveler wrote:
> >>
> >> And why would a company want to hire someone who has already proven
> >> they are disloyal enough to look for another job while they already
> >> have one?
> >> (Keep in mind that the person tossing out applications is probably
> >> thinking "why would we hire anyone so bad they don't already have a
> >> job?".)
> >
> > That sounds similar to the silliness where no company will hire you
> > because you don't have experience, and you can't get experience because
> > no company will hire you. :-(
>
> I ran into a similar problem early on in my career, when the small
> company I was working for laid me off due to one of their customers
> choosing to change to an off-the-shelf product instead of custom
> programming. I had six months work experience in the programming field
> at that point, and was turned down both by companies that wanted people
> with at least two years experience, and by companies that wanted new
> graduates with no experience. One of the latter companies told me, "We
> want people who haven't learned any other company's way of doing things."
Yep, then there's the companies who don't want you because you're too
old / too experienced. :-\
There are also the companies that don't want university graduates ("to
much theroy, not enough practical application") and prefer polytech
graduates instead (which actually do work-placements).
The whole thing is ridiculously inane, which is why I gave up bothering
with it decades ago and have been self-employed.
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