When I was on the job market a few years ago, I went through hell and back interviewing at 60 different places and getting through to the second to last round of interviews before ultimately being rejected. The worst offender was the company who had me in for 5 virtual interviews(number 5 being over an hour long with 3 different “panels”), a written assessment, and still rejected me. They did manage to tell me why I was rejected: They said i “didn’t make enough eye contact” in the 5 rounds of interviews I had with them, but I know it is because I was asking to be fully remote instead of hybrid and for a higher salary since I have previous experience.
I was recently laid off from the employer I managed to find for myself after all that effort. It was not for performance reasons, and i’m honestly so relieved because I spent this whole year dodging lay off rounds and pushing myself to over do my work performance. For my next career move: I’m not trying to rush back into the same “hit the ground running” “all star” customer service stuff I’ve been doing since COVID started but I have a senior recruiter at one of the companies I previously interviewed with reaching out to me asking to set up some time to talk.
This feels like a joker moment where I can give them feedback about their expectations for “entry level” support roles because they are bragging about how profitable they are but they didn’t hire me when I really needed the work cuz I was too expensive. Since i am clearly still salty from this company’s mistreatment during my last encounters with them, I can’t find a professional way to go about refusing a conversation and asking them to look at the material they probably still have about me if they want to consider me.
I am tired of customer service being an “entry level” role, anything that requires previous experience should not be salary capped by calling it entry level.