Thursday, May 13, 2010

Unemployment; or, What Recovery?

As of today, I have been unemployed for 74 days. I have applied to, on average, 5 jobs per day for the past 74 days. That is, ladies and gentlemen, an estimated total of 370 job applications. From these 370 applications, I have had two phone interviews and one in-person interview. This means that I have a less-than-1% success rate of getting to the interview stage.

What is the problem? I promise, I'm not applying to jobs out of my skill set or experience level, and in many cases, I'm applying under my ability.

Anyone know any magical job tricks? Special employment potions? Hiring chants? 'Cause I could definitely use some increased mojo on the job front.