{"id":2263,"date":"2016-09-08T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T06:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2016-08-19T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:13:21","slug":"not-a-good-fit-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/09\/not-a-good-fit-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Good Fit &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first explanation of what &#8220;not a good fit means.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I apply for a job. I interview face-t0-face with a team of persons. Several days later I receive the form email stating, &#8220;sorry, you are not a good fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? I have two main explanations. This post will give the first and the next post the second.<\/p>\n<p>The first explanation for &#8220;not a good fit&#8221; is that a person is not the right<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>race<\/li>\n<li>religion<\/li>\n<li>gender<\/li>\n<li>age<\/li>\n<li>veteran status<\/li>\n<li>disability status<\/li>\n<li>culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ouch. This is a bit ugly and more than a bit illegal, but hey. You can&#8217;t prove anything in court, and since you are unemployed, you can&#8217;t afford the legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the above &#8220;you can neither inquire nor consider&#8221; items are plainly asked on all job applications. Someone requires this information for some reason, and certainly these items are considered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not a good fit?&#8221; Too bad for you. That&#8217;s a fuzzy answer, and persons hide behind the fuzz with, &#8220;we really can&#8217;t put it into words, you know. Good luck to you. You have great qualifications and we&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll find a job real soon now. Be sure to continue looking on our careers website and&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The first explanation of what &#8220;not a good fit means.&#8221; I apply for a job. I interview face-t0-face with a team of persons. Several days later I receive the form email stating, &#8220;sorry, you are not a good fit.&#8221; What does that mean? I have two main explanations. This post will give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[139,140],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-employment","tag-culture","tag-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}