Last Friday around 1:30 p.m., I got an email that I didn’t really want to get, even though most of the later part of the week, I had a suspicion that it would arrive. I got the standard HR rejection email.
I have been interviewing with a local company for potentially great career changing position and was pretty sure that all had gone well through the process of two interview sessions with a total of 10 different people. But, it wasn’t meant to be. Am I disappointed? Yes. Depressed? No. Do I wonder why? Yes. Not because I’m an over confident job seeker, but because I’d like to know what to work on for the next time. It had been years since I had put myself out there for a hiring process and I guess I’d like to know where to apply the polish.
I still have to work with some of the people at this company because they are a vendor who’s software has high use in my department and on campus. Maybe sometime in the future I’ll tactfully ask them about it.
The toughest part about it was getting the standard cut and paste rejection that gets sent to everyone else after I felt like I invested so much time into it and puked out my life and 10 year work history for so many people with some kind of anticipation that it all would pay off with an offer to join their team.
So now, on to plan B. Yes, I had a plan B. So my eggs weren’t totally in their basket. Nor should they have been.
Hurried and Harried 