Today, after spending four days having my resume, cover letter, and references proofread and perfected by professionals, I finally submitted it all to the summer internship of my dreams. I received a rejection letter ten minutes later. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I applied for a new job as a maintenance technician. About 10 minutes after submitting my resume, I received a rejection letter. My girlfriend is their HR person. FML
Today, I was excited to receive a rejection letter, because this was the first company to even acknowledge that I sent them a resume. FML
Today, while waiting for an interview at the career that I've been spending months tailoring my résumé for, I was thrown up on by my only competitor. Guess who got the job. FML
Today, I received a rejection letter from a job I desperately wanted. Yesterday, the job offer I'd been stalling on in while waiting for news about this one expired. FML
Today, I received a series of rejection letters from jobs, one after the other. Last night, I stayed up into the wee morning hours to apply to campus jobs I'm not qualified for, because I was classified as a part-time student due to an administrative error. FML
Today, while despairing over having been rejected for my dream job, I received an email asking me to come back in for another interview. Then they called me to say they accidentally sent the email to all the applicants, and that they definitely aren't interested. FML
Today, I eagerly applied for a high-salary, fully supportive graduate program that I qualified for. There were 5 steps in the application process. I was turned down after the first one. FML
Today, after constantly checking my email for a week, I finally got a letter saying that I was accepted to take a test for a job position. The only problem is I was scheduled to test today, eight hours ago. FML
Today, I completed my two-month internship, where I have been working as hard as I could with the hope of being hired. My boss couldn't remember my name, and declined to be a reference. FML
Today, it’s been 3 weeks since I had an interview for an internship this summer. I’ve applied to over 40 internships over the past 6 months, and this was the only interview I’ve had. I banked my entire summer on this. FML
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D_Thr33 0
You can dress it up all you want, but in the end, a pile of shit (your resume, cover letter and references) is still a pile of shit.
Rota 0
Never assume you'll get the job. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.
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Comments (75)
khizer 0
It does make sense because most of the time these organizations have "Auto Reply" set on the careers/job email address as soon as the vacancy is close.
melodyrose331 2
it's happened to me too. more times than i want to count.
blink_kid 32
Sometimes just having the correct grammar isn't good enough. Massive competition for these internships :(
maddieex 14
That obviously means there was a major red flag in the resume that would stop them from reading any further and disqualify you immediately. Next time you should look up red flags in this certain area. Sorry, OP.
Chaosshadowzero 15
Thats ridiculous, people should at least give you a chance, not just automatically say NO.
1coldheart 2
this has got to hurt. I feel your pain, I never get a rejection email or anything. at lease you got one, no offense