I have been unemployed for going on a year. The field I'm in is in the administrative (non-teaching) area of higher education, with a particular focus on international programming and scholarships/fellowships/student advising. I'm zeroing in on 39 years old. I used to be a very competitive candidate in this field. But I no longer am.
One thing I've noticed is that job postings in my area, and really any kind of community and education non-profit postings, is that the job requirements are becoming so specific that you virtually have to have done that exact job in order to be competitive. When I got my last job back in 2014, I didn't have specific experience in what the job required, but I had enough experience in similar areas to show that I would be capable of learning that job. And I did. But just the other day I applied to a position and received a personalized REJECTION on the same day stating that I didn't have the exact specific experience with the things the job required, which was managing fund raising projects; I have managed many projects from the ground up, including securing funding from donors, but this was apparently not good enough. I had not *specifically* overseen fund raising and only fundraising, and so I was not eligible.
I've noticed this across many fields and specializations: You have to have specific experience with the exact systems they use; often these applications will point blank ask if you have experience with such and such, and if you indicate you don't, your application isn't even reviewed. I don't even know how someone could get experience with those systems without working in that position to begin with. And so I suspect it's all just people already in the field being shifted around.
What do others think?
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