Why Was Your Job Application Rejected?
Most job seekers do not understand why their job application was rejected until after it has been rejected.
Unfortunately, this tells them that they could have figured it out for themselves with a little forethought. Allow me to assist you in avoiding these common blunders and providing you with insider advice on how to maximize your job application success.
Job Application: This is a personnel matter.
All job applications begin with the employer, not the job seeker. A job is approved within an organization by a combination of two forces:
- a requirement for business
- the manager of the team that will carry out the task
This is an important insight because it should indicate that the manager makes the final decision on who is hired, and that the successful job applicant will be considered the most capable of delivering the defined business requirements.
As a result of these two forces, a job description is created, from which the job advertisement is derived. Only after the job has been approved to this stage does it become a personnel process. However, failing to recognize the human beings completely in the personal exchange – the manager and the successful jobholder – is a common mistake made by many job applicants.
Your Job Search and You
A job search begins long before you begin reading newspapers, searching job boards, trudging to the Job Centre, or chatting with friends. Your job search begins with you, as well as a clear definition of:
- Who and what are you?
- As a result, what you provide
- What you want to do/see yourself doing in the long run
If you don’t know what you want to do, any job will suffice, resulting in multiple job application rejections.
Job market evaluation
Although you now know what you want to do, the job market may not want those specific skills at that time, in that search geography, for the pay level that makes economic sense to you. You must ensure that the job market is offering that job at the appropriate pay level, and this is where the true benefit of a job board-driven job search becomes apparent.
Go to your favorite job board and post a job with the same title/skills but a pay level of zero. Then, expand the geographic search criteria until at least 20 jobs are displayed. If you can’t find at least 20 suitable jobs, your ideal job isn’t currently available in the job market. Either return to stage 1 and consider another interim step toward your ideal long-term job, wait three months, or accept constant job application upset.
The second issue at this point is that there are too many jobs to apply for. Return to your preferred job board, and if more than 100 job results are returned after entering your desired criteria, go back and more precisely define what you offer an employer/seek in the short and long term. Falling into the “any job will do” syndrome indicates that you are not focusing sufficiently on what you can do well/offer in the eyes of the employer, and thus will be rejected.
Professional Curriculum Vitae
Although it pains me to say it, as a Professional CV Writer, you don’t actually need a Professional CV if you approach your job search in a certain way. However, for 95 percent of job applications, a CV will be required at some point during the legal and thus defined HR process. In today’s world, a one-size-fits-all CV will not get you the necessary phone interview: the only output action required when an employer is presented with a good CV.
If, like many people today, you heard a friend or someone in a pub successfully use a free template to get a job, don’t follow the herd: templates mean you won’t stand out from the crowd. Good Professional CV Writers create engaging two-page documents that entice employers to call because they communicate that the job applicant possesses the necessary skills to fit the job description and demonstrates social fit with the organization/manager. Expect to be rejected if your template does not meet these requirements, no matter how attractive it is or how long your list of hobbies and interests is.
Form for Job Application
The one thing that job seekers consistently fail to understand, but hiring managers do, is that you can’t beat the odds of where you find and how you apply for jobs.
For example, if you are an internal employee who is offered a promotion, your chances are 90 percent. The chances of a known person interacting directly with a recruiting organization are around 50%. Your best chance of getting hired through a public job advertisement, whether on a company website or in the newspaper, is around 12% on average. A “follow the process” application via a job sourced on a job board, on the other hand, could easily be as low as 2%.
So, why do so many job seekers believe they will be successful if they spend more than 10% of their time on job boards? Rejection is bound up with and dictated by where you look for jobs and how you apply for them.
Job application self-assurance
This is the final point of job application rejection, and it is a widespread issue in today’s job-seeking world: personal confidence. Job searching is a job in and of itself, and it is a difficult one. There’s research, marketing, paperwork, cold calling, direct costs, and the worst of all: a high level of rejection. Even the most successful job seekers will be rejected at least once, implying that their success rate is 50%. I’ve yet to meet an unsuccessful job seeker who lacked self-confidence in some way. It is one of the reasons I decided to cross the divide and become a CV Writer, because the CV is universally used in most job searches. If you’ve read this article and are still wondering why you’ve been rejected, go out with your friends and family and remember what’s important. After taking a day or two off, resume applying for jobs with renewed vigor and seek assistance with your job search.
A job application is as simple as you make it for yourself, but here’s some insider advice to avoid job application disappointment: if you don’t know who you are, what you offer, and what you want to do, you will be: REJECTED!
Best wishes!