If You Have To Apply For A Job…

The other day I was having an argument/discussion with a colleague.   To prove that ‘If You Have To Apply For A Job You Won’t Get It’,  I applied.

Now I am far more qualified than every single person at the institution.  I know it, those in charge know it, it’s public knowledge.

However, I applied for the job and was turned down.

I thanked the person who turned me down for helping me prove the point.

In Kakistocracies, which Jamaica is, corruption is our form of governace.  It is not that the government is corrupt, it is that corruption is our government.

This extends to every aspect of life.

You have to ‘know’ someone to get a position.    The person you know will give you the position if s/he wants to.  To fool the world, the position you have been given will be advertised, applications taken, interviews held, and then, you get the position.

This is how it goes.

This is why I knew I wouldn’t get the position when I applied for it.   And despite my qualifications, knew I would be turned down, because the ‘Big Man’ in charge hadn’t been consulted.

I say all this as a friend of mine encouraged me to apply for another position.  I thought it was ‘in the bag’ until I was asked to write a resume.

I have never written a resume because it is unnecessary.  Either you get the post, or you don’t.  It has nothing to do with qualifications, experience or anything else.

So here I am, asked to write a resume.

I went on the ‘net to check out various resumes, then decided to wing it.  After all, why knock myself out?  I’ll write what seems right for me, and then email it, and expect to be turned down.  No sense downloading and tweaking and trying to match my qualifications to what is required in the little boxes.

I just honestly wrote why I was qualified and why I wanted the position.

If I get turned down it would not be a shocker, as I say; when you live in a country as corrupt as Jamaica, if you have to apply for a position, you won’t get it.