I've been raising kids for the last fifteen years. The recession has hit my family hard and the money I earn from The Pet Washer is not enough to fill in the gaps, so I applied online for a part-time job at a bank last night. This is the automatic email they sent me.
"We have received your resume and appreciate your inquiry in a career opportunity with our organization.
During the next two weeks, we will review your qualifications and our open positions and determine whether a match exists. If it does, we will schedule a further discussion with you. If you do not hear from us during the two-week period, we were unable to find a suitable position for you. As we receive hundreds of resumes every month, we apologize that we cannot personally respond to every resume submitted to us to discuss why we will not be moving forward.
Again, thank you for expressing an interest in employment with (name of bank). We wish you all the best in your job search."
During the next two weeks, we will review your qualifications and our open positions and determine whether a match exists. If it does, we will schedule a further discussion with you. If you do not hear from us during the two-week period, we were unable to find a suitable position for you. As we receive hundreds of resumes every month, we apologize that we cannot personally respond to every resume submitted to us to discuss why we will not be moving forward.
Again, thank you for expressing an interest in employment with (name of bank). We wish you all the best in your job search."
Seriously? Hundreds of resumes each month?
I also sent my new novel to literary agents yesterday. This is the automatic email one of them sent me.
"Thank you so much for your query.
Please note that, per our submissions policy, we are no longer able to respond to every submission. We receive such a high volume of submissions that a personal response to all is unfortunately no longer possible. We regret that we can't send a personal response to every author, but we continue to read and consider every query carefully, and we are grateful for the opportunity to consider your work.
If we are interested in seeing more of your work, we will contact you
at the email address you provided. If you have not heard from us
within 6 weeks, please assume that the material submitted is not right
for our agency at this time.
Thank you again for thinking of us and considering our agency. We look
forward to reading your work!"
It appears the odds of getting hired match the odds of getting published. Starving artist, phooey, how about just starving!
To Do: Don't give up! The odds may not be in my favor, but I'm not going to stop trying. Wayne Gretzky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Keep going, Jennifer! Sales have been terrible since Amazon changed its algorithms (seeming to favour big publishers), and I've come to the conclusion that writing more books is the best thing to do!
ReplyDeleteHi, Darren. Do we know for sure they changed their algorithms? I have more books coming out and I won't stop writing! Honestly, I crave readers more than I crave income.
ReplyDeleteI guess we do not know for sure, but some people analyze these things and believe that they have changed - especially in factoring in the revenue each books creates; thus higher-priced books will rise higher than lower-priced ones, which favours known authors. Also, it seems the free downloads in the KDP Select promotions now count as only a percentage of a sale rather than a whole sale per book.
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