Dear Small Town Florida Employers,

It seems a bit short-sighted to ignore highly qualified candidates for positions because a) they don't have enough community connections yet, b) they just moved here, or c) your cousins nephews daughter needed a job (so you rewrote the qualifications and then reopened the job).

Sincerely,

Highly Qualified Applicant (you've passed over repeatedly)



I'm having zero luck with finding a professional job here, so it's (with any luck) back to part time retail for me Just got done filling out the online application for Home Depot, uploaded my resume and answered about 25 resume related questions. Then I got to answer the "assessment questions", 145 multiple guess questions to see what I know about customer service, work culture, tools, and home repair.

I just can't, for the life of me, imagine 90% of the people at my local HD answering those questions even remotely correctly.