Rejection

I got my first “your not hired” letter in the mail the other day. And can I tell you, that it was the greatest thing??? Well … Maybe not THE greatest, but at least it was something. I have been applying for job after job after job for the last 2 plus months and I have gotten absolutely NOTHING back. So a rejection letter is better than the absolute cyber-silence, I suppose.

What makes it worse is that I was talking to an insurance head hunter the other day, and he confirmed my worst fear … He told me that most insurance companies are posting jobs out there but none of them are actually hiring for jobs right now (or even have the approval to hire). Instead they are just trying to gather a candidate pool and once they get the approval for the position, then they will actually start looking to hire someone. I guess the philosophy is that no one will quit a job until they have another one lined up so these companies can just work their severely over-worked employees until they crack and these people will put up with it because there is no where else to go.

What pisses me off about all that is these companies are posting profits now, but I get the feeling that many of them (not just insurance) are doing the same thing – not hiring any more people. I mean, why bother hiring more people when you can work with half the staff and still make the numbers you want because everyone if afraid to quit.

This make is look like the economy is beginning to pull itself out of the recession, but really, when unemployment is as high as it is … can you really say things are better??? Especially when so many people are out of work???

Granted I’m no economist, and I’m incredibly frustrated with the fact that I can’t seem to find a job to save my life … But that’s what it seems like to me!