I have spent so much time online trying to find job opportunities and companies that can hire me. Little did I know that I was doing it wrong. Yes the whole research was pointless because I was going the traditional way. Went through the infamous recruitment agencies whom to be honest were never going to contact me anyway but I didn’t know. I genuinely thought that I am hireable no matter how long I have been out of work. So with all the hopes in the world, I have updated my CV and applied to so many jobs….fruitlessly. What a waste of my time! I wish it was clearer! I wish going back to work was an easy road. Honestly how come a person like me who wants to work can’t be hired? I have the SAHM stigma that I hid by putting a Freelancer status. So Freelancing scares a lot of employers apparently. Here again you just feel like you are judged for choosing a flexible way to work. Now that I am looking for a permanent and no matter how good I was in my career, well no they say, you have chosen the freelancing we cant trust you cause you might want to go back to that unstable environment no matter if you have a family you want to provide for….hear hear, can you hear yourself? Are you seriously logical? You put family and financial unstability in the same sentence and you honestly think that I would go for unstable instead of permanent? And to top it up I have to justify myself! Oulalala the world is really strange.
I was picked out of many candidates and successfully passed a phone interview with the agency, a face to face with the agency, an interview with their client, a casual interview with their team members, during which I accidentally mentioned the work from home flexibility because let s face it me spending hours in transport wasn’t going to be as efficient as working at home. Guess what? ‘you are really good but we found a better fit’…. A younger no family man I found out.
This is my reality and I am happy dealing with it.
From now on I won’t go through regular agencies. I will ditch them, they were never really useful to me anyway. I will also ditch all the jobs.ie, irishjobs.ie registration. I will take my CV to another level!
The RETURNERS level!
I will find the company which will find my new skills helpful, I will find the company that deserves me and will recognise my SAHM career break as a strength.
Stay tuned because I will make this happen and I will talk about it 😊
Harley & Lyla 