Welcome to the job interview experience. As a former search firm owner, I was able to get inside

the minds of my clients. They shared priorities for what type of talent they wanted, bad experiences,

good experiences, things they wouldn't even share internally. I got to know what companies

really want, not just what they say they want

online. As an executive recruiter, my job was to find the best talent in the country, then align

it with a client, so that both sides wanted to work together, selling both the client and the

candidate to each other. As a director of talent acquisition at two different companies in three

different industries,

I viewed thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of applications,

worked with recruiters that conducted interviews, purchased, and ran applicant tracking systems,

the ones that you use to apply to jobs.

Like in every episode, I'm taking all of this experience and putting it into this episode

to provide you with insider insight on what goes on when you apply, but don't get invited

to interview.

Maybe you receive a we're not interested email.

Maybe you don't.

You're back at all. Here are 14 different factors

that can play into the most frustrating part of the job search and make sure to stick around

until the end because I give you an email template you can use to effectively follow up if you

don't hear back.

Reasons that you don't hear back, you don't get invited to even that first interview after you

apply.

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