Got my first job rejection today, from a job looking for a minimum 2 years community management in gaming. I have over 10 years community management experience with 4 years in gaming including one year managing a community for EA Games. 🤷🏻
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These new AI resume screeners are brutal. My wife found she needed to add percentages to hers (i.e. increased engagement by 25%). You might try running it through one as a test. Good luck! 🍀
Solidarity. I had one place tell me my experience didn't qualify despite the job description and my resume being basically a word-for-word match. Couldn't even get a phone screen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Job hunting is terrible, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.
possibly you have too much experience and they don't think you will be happy in that role? we routinely pass on qualified candidates for roles that seem below them.
I’ve professionally managed communities from a few hundred people to over 9M, on forums, chat tools, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, & YouTube. On YouTube, I built a community from zero subscribers up to its first 100k.
Most of these places don't actually look at resumes, and in many cases they already have a candidate before they post the job.
I got rejected without interview for a job that wanted experience using a specific software. I worked for the company that created that software for 7 years.
The recruiting person actually emailed me after the rejection and apologized because they had an internal candidate for the position and weren't actually interviewing but they wanted me to consider applying again in the future (I did not)
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Job hunting is terrible, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.
I got rejected without interview for a job that wanted experience using a specific software. I worked for the company that created that software for 7 years.