If you’ve recently applied for hundreds of jobs online and haven’t received any interviews, I guess the first thing I’d ask is how many of those jobs were you actually qualified for?
I’m guessing the number is probably 1/4 or maybe less.
I recall getting four consecutive emails from the same person who was applying for four different jobs with our company and in some cases the person didn’t qualify for any of them.
I can actually recall many cases where I saw this happen. Then I’d find out that this same person had also emailed several of my colleagues multiple times for other jobs we were working on, jobs that this person also didn’t qualify for.
This is the problem with the Internet and job boards in particular: if it’s easy for you to apply to hundreds of jobs online in a short amount of time, it’s just as easy for everyone else to do the same thing so the whole process becomes a cesspool of job applications from people who are applying for jobs they have no right to be applying for.
The other issue of course is that it then falls upon the hiring manager to figure out how they’re going to weed through the hundreds of applications and get a short list of people who actually fit the job they’re trying to fill.
If you’re applying for jobs with a company that you don’t fit but figure that there’s a chance that if they see your resume they might think of another job to interview you for that you actually fit, you’re wasting your time.
And I know that there are many people who do this because I’ve spoken with many people who use this tactic.
I can’t say with 100% certainty that this tactic never works but I’d be willing to bet money that it doesn’t. When I saw a person who had emailed me four times for four jobs they weren’t qualified for, I’d open their resume and quickly scan the first page just to see what they’d done recently and typically the next step was to delete all emails they’d sent me and move onto the next person.
The thing I noticed about people who tend to email you multiple times for different jobs that they aren’t qualified for is that they also tend to be people who aren’t particularly good at what they do. If they were, they’d be applying for the correct jobs and not wasting everyone’s time.
