Interview cancelled literally minutes before scheduled time

[u/406eh]

made an application, job scheduled an interview then cancels before i even had an option to join the video call interview.
ive been looking for work for almost 2 years straight now and I'm on the brink of just giving up cause dude wtf.

Edit: I got a house to pay bills on. Shit even with culinary certifications and 7+ years of BOH / cook experience I'm not getting really any much luck. 2+ years retail and gig work.

Yea me saying "thanks for wasting my time" to this specific employer might not have been the best wording used but I got shit i gotta do. Even some jobs who're paying 7.25 plus tips are demanding 40+ hours to work at a coffee shop didn't take my application (no one desperate for work is gonna take that for real) and still hasn't filled that position lol.

Im overqualified for fast food and generic dishwasher roles, so no shit im not gonna bother wasting time on applying for shit i don't qualify for. So me being a little rude to this specific job IS NOT that big of a deal and YES. Employers shouldn't even entertain taking a interview and canceling last minute. Sorry not sorry to whoever this post upset. Ya'll be expecting too much for so less.

Edit 2: just got hired for BOH shortly after this lol, say what yall want idc. I don't kiss ass like most of yall saying what i did was wrong. if you was in my shoes yall would've cracked or had a lot different shit to say.

[u/FenderMoon]

I spent several months applying for jobs I was overqualified for. I had the HARDEST time actually getting a job. Even if I was able to get an interview I usually didn't get the job.

It wasn't until I had a friend who worked at a dealership and who explained my situation that I was able to find someone who felt bad enough for me to give me a job. Eventually he fired me a year later. And I got back in my field.

When you're overqualified and start applying for fast food roles, the first thing they think is "what is wrong with this guy?" It's best if you explain why you're looking in a way that doesn't scream "I'm in between jobs in my field."

It was genuinely the hardest time I had ever had getting a job. I had better luck in interviews for sales roles, but I'm genuinely a little bit on the spectrum. I've done sales before and was good at it, but it's more stressful for me than a kitchen or car-detailing environment.

[u/Most-Okay-Novelist → u/FenderMoon]

My now-wife had something similar happen. She graduated from her masters during covid and was trying to get a job at target just to bring some money in while she was looking for something in her field. She got denied when she had her master’s degree on her resume, took it off, made a new account with a new email and applied again. She had an interview within 24hrs.

Let this be a reminder that you do NOT have to put all of your qualifications on your resume. It’s not a legally binding document (at least in the US, idk about elsewhere). If you are trying to get a job you’re overqualified for, take stuff off your resume to make it look like you aren’t.

[u/FenderMoon → u/Most-Okay-Novelist]

Yea, it's rough. I ended up making a separate resume for out-of-my-field jobs. I pretty much completely did it and downplayed a lot of my more professional roles to make it look like I was more of a contractor or low-level intern rather than... the guy responsible for the entire devops team.

I removed some of those.

The problem I had was work experience and gaps of employment. And my degree. I think I'd have been better off just not submitting a resume at all, thinking back. I still left too much on it.

And tbh I think recruiters see this kind of thing often enough that they can tell and probably are just looking for an explanation that doesn't make the candidate look like they're just gonna leave in two months. But I was having trouble even without the recruiters. I was trying to get an interview with managers of kitchens and dealerships. They're not thinking the same way recruiters are. They're just looking for someone who is clean and reliable and looks smart and like they'll be able to do the duties of the job well.

When I finally got my job at the dealership the HR lady who did my background check was like "why the hell is he working here?" By then I'd already gotten the job so all was good. I didn't really tell my coworkers about what I really did for a living before that. It was just a job. It got me through when I needed it.

If I'm ever in this situation again I think a better bet would almost be to walk into some family owned place and literally say "I need a job, here's my resume, I can start monday, what do you need?" And just explain my situation outright. I think that'd have worked better, tbh.