Glob posted...
Not entirely true. You take it by working on yourself and making them want to give it to you.
When you send your resume via email and they don't even acknowledge it, that isn't because they saw you and figured you not having "worked on yourself enough." You had no agency in their decision. They know nothing about you as a person when choosing to delete your resume without even opening it.
"Taking" a job would be them giving you an unpaid day or two and seeing if you perform well. That would give you some actual agency over their decision.
Glob posted...
If you cultivate a career correctly, you can reach a point where interviews and recruitment processes are no longer about them deciding if they want you, but you deciding if you want to work for them.
Sounds like a privileged position to me. I wasn't born with such capabilities. I'm bottom tier trash so that isn't really an option.
Also, the fact that discrimination is legal doesn't help. It's already too late for me. I was the moment I was born really, but discriminatory factors since then have made it even worse.