• cynar@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My personal record is over 12 years.

    I applied for some temp work, doing building work (among other things). At the time I was at university, so wanted to make money in my time off. I never heard back from that particular agency, and wrote it off as a bust.

    Cut to a decade after finishing uni. I get a random call, to see if I am available. I’m now a veteran freelancer, in a highly specialist field, so I’m used to being cold called with work offers. It quickly becomes apparent that they are not talking about my field however.

    I eventually got enough info out of them to realise where the info must have come from. Even funnier was how annoyed she was that I hadn’t made them aware I was no longer available! I don’t know which is more impressive/disturbing, that they kept my application for that long, or that they were so short handed that they managed to get that deep into the pile of old applications!

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      8 months ago

      how annoyed she was that I hadn’t made them aware

      Just wait until they hear about how they failed to inform you of anything

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      8 months ago

      In 2009 I posted my resume to one of those websites, thinking little of it. I’d recently been fired and had wound down my savings. I thought at worse I’d get offers I wasn’t interested in and at the time really, I needed anything.

      My friends, without ever having applied for a single job, having no sales plastered all over that resume, and it being now 15 years out of date, I still get the occasional cold call for an outside 10-99 sales position based on that resume and that resume alone.

      I have, in that time, been fired from two more call centers, finished school, found an offline job, decided that office work wasn’t for me, gone back to school, started a career in the trades, and found my tribe.