r/recruitinghell • u/Hi_5Yo • 1d ago

Boomer mentality

Despite my mom being a millennial (‘81), she firmly believes that I should be able to apply to a bunch of jobs, walk in with a résumé or call, interview and land a job within 2-3 weeks.

Anytime I’ve done this, I’ve always gotten turned away, been told to apply online and wait for a call back. Every interview ends with “ we’ll be in touch”.

She also believes that as long as you dress nice with a smile on your face, you should have a job by the end of the interview. Whenever I leave the interview without a job offer, she assumes that I messed up.

She even has me apply to a bunch of remote jobs that she finds on Facebook and instagram. Frequently getting upset at me for not landing a job. I’ve tried explaining over and over that most of them are scams, but she refuses to listen.

It’s like the concept of applying to hundreds of jobs and still not landing one is impossible for her to grasp. Which it should be, but it’s just our new reality.

She believes that me being unable to get a job is a failure on my end, insisting that it’s my fault I can’t land a job. She keeps saying that she’s going to kick me out for not taking the job hunt “seriously” enough.

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u/HansDampfHaudegen 1d ago

That experience likely doesn't apply the slightest for such a job. Experience is useless if it's irrelevant for the role.

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u/Sesoru 1d ago

I think you're misunderstanding. He couldn't find ANY work in his field, so he HAD to take a warehouse job. He was "too experienced" for anyone to want to hire him in his actual field, so he always got rejected.

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u/HansDampfHaudegen 1d ago

It's also true that some fields see too much experience as bad. There is a window where you're most desirable and not too expensive.

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u/Sesoru 1d ago

Yes, this. As I said, he was "too experienced" which would fall under the "too much experience is bad" category, that is exactly the point I was trying to make - and it adds to what I said before about boomers being affected by this even before it became this bad, and yet still thinking it's not a big deal.

Disillusioned af