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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe how unpleasant so many of you have been to the OP. Seriously?[/quote]

What would you say?  Do you think she was correct to decline to apply for a job she really wanted?  Do you think the advice given has been bad, or just the tone of that advice?[/quote]

I think the attacks on her personality have been

a) gratuitous and unsupported by anything she's said,

and

b) kicking someone when she's down. [/quote]

I think some of the observations about her personality/actions, based on both her decision not to apply because of a single person's reaction to her question and her reaction to some thoughtful advice given here (albeit, not what she wanted to hear), are constructive towards figuring out why she can't get hired permanently.  She can't get hired permanently if she doesn't apply, and she created her own wall from ever obtaining the position by reading so heavily into her supervisor's response.  Her reaction to the supervisor is analogous to her reaction to the thread: she didn't hear exactly what she wanted and shut became defensive/shut down because of it.

There are so many moving parts in a hiring process such as competing interests from various stakeholders within an organization, HR requirements like interviewing X number of candidates,  the organization distancing themselves from the appearance of impropriety during the hiring process (i.e. someone with the inside track), the supervisor not wanting to promise anything that she can't directly control and/or deliver, and many more.  The OP at the very least wanted a strong encouragement to apply (which is warm and fuzzy but has no bearing on the hiring process), and at the most, wanted a verbal affirmation that she had a leg up in the search.  Instead of realizing the reality of the hiring process, OP chose to pout from hurt feelings and rationalize every reason not to apply.  That's fine, but it won't get OP anywhere.[/quote]

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