Took me 8 months to figure out I was ghosted for a reason

I spent almost a year after college chasing this one company in Austin. Kept sending follow ups and tailoring my resume every 6 weeks. Finally ran into an old coworker at a coffee shop who told me the manager there had a policy of never replying to anyone under 2 years experience. Why didn't he just put that in the job posting? Has anyone else wasted that much time on a place that was never going to call back?

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haydenp951mo ago

Eight months is nothing, that's just called paying your dues. If they had put "2 years experience required" in the posting, everyone under that would have ignored it and the manager would have had to actually interview people. The whole point of a silent rejection is to filter out people who can't take a hint. You learned that persistence doesn't automatically equal qualification, which is a lesson most people need to get smacked with at least once. Sounds like the system worked exactly as designed.

tessacarter1mo ago

Has anyone else here ever accidentally applied to the same job three times before realizing you were being ghosted, @haydenp95? I'm pretty sure my resume is just decoration for their spam filter at this point.

fox.jesse1d ago

Right? "Paying your dues" is exactly it. I hit send on four apps to the same company before I realized they were just auto-deleting anything under five years.