I have been hunting for a job since a long time and now I am a certified hunter as I have received a rejection mail from almost all the relevant companies. When a candidate applies for a job, three things generally happen, either one gets an interview call, or a rejection mail or no reply at all. An interview call is a hit, even a "no reply" is appreciated as one can believe that the resume didn't go through and can re-apply till finally gets something. The worst is rejection, because you know that nothing happens next, the chapter ends and so do all the hopes.
I have received numerous kinds of rejection mails, few mails appreciate my interest in their company and how unfortunate they were not to have me in the team. Some simply encourage to keep applying for other positions and keep visiting the website; I think they generate revenue out of people visiting the site. Some are kind enough to send mails suggesting new openings matching my profile. But some are shitty rejects, they simply say that you are a looser and they have found someone more suited for the job.
Being a candidate, one can expect a rejection mail anytime throughout the day/night. Not all, but many send rejection mails around afternoon or evening hours, but the shittiest rejections come early in the morning and spoil the whole day ahead.
Few months ago...
I have received numerous kinds of rejection mails, few mails appreciate my interest in their company and how unfortunate they were not to have me in the team. Some simply encourage to keep applying for other positions and keep visiting the website; I think they generate revenue out of people visiting the site. Some are kind enough to send mails suggesting new openings matching my profile. But some are shitty rejects, they simply say that you are a looser and they have found someone more suited for the job.
Being a candidate, one can expect a rejection mail anytime throughout the day/night. Not all, but many send rejection mails around afternoon or evening hours, but the shittiest rejections come early in the morning and spoil the whole day ahead.
Few months ago...
I applied to few job positions posted on Intel's website, I added 52 jobs in my job cart and started applying to them one after the other. After hours of mind numbing efforts, I ended up getting a warning; which said I cannot apply for more than 30 jobs at Intel in one day. What the heck, I knew I will not be coming back on this site to re-apply and with the economy being so bad, 30 positions were way too less to even get an Interview call. If they had intimated me about this earlier, I could have applied to the 30 jobs closely matching my profile instead of applying to everything.
Intel probably figured that I had been spamming their server the other day with so many job applications, and took a revenge on me which I'll never forget the whole life. It even scares me to this date. Every morning, with great hopes I check my mail for a positive reply from any job position I ever applied for. Intel kept sending me one shitty rejection mail almost every morning. After reading the mail I thought it wasn't a good time to start the day and kept sleeping late till afternoons.
During the afternoons, the sun shines hotter than Angelina Jolie and in this intense heat and light I walk my way to college. Either I am photochromatic or it’s because of intense solar radiation, I have turned dark. People say its tanning, whatever it is, all thanks to Intel and Global warming. I feel like suing Intel sometimes. Keep tanning aside, but as I reach my workplace late, I work less than what I am supposed to; and now I am left with totally unfinished thesis even after the semester has ended. WTF is wrong with Intel.
I stopped checking my mail early in the morning, instead I started checking FB but Farmville and fortune cookies and every nonsense thing out there grossed me. With almost done with receiving rejection to all the positions I applied at Intel, I dared to check my mails again. Even after so many months have passed, I do get rejection mails from Intel once in couple of weeks. Now I have learned to live with it, it’s a part of my life. I have been thinking what was better; no new mails in inbox or at least one new mail doesn't matter even if it’s a rejection mail? New mails give me a feeling that that I am connected to the world. I miss mails from Intel and hence will keep applying at it till they give me a job or I get a job somewhere else.
