A recruiter turned away overqualified job candidates to save them from the exploitative tendencies of a corrupt company. Although it was disappointing at the time, this weirdly heroic act saved an IT professional from getting stuck in a bad career, and he found out a year later exactly how lucky he was to have avoided that position.
Getting locked in a bad job is exhausting. Without the energy or the wherewithal to continue your job search, oftentimes, overworked, full-time employees will sit complacently in an exploitative space simply because it’s familiar and it’s easy. Deserving higher pay, better hours, and more respect from the higher-ups, overqualified employees shouldn’t have to swim upstream to find a good-paying job with a decent workplace.
This prospective employee was applying for jobs like crazy when they finally landed an interview. With misplaced excitement, they crushed the interview and aced the quiz section of the job application, but to their surprise and their dismay, they were rejected without explanation. A year later, after finding a good job with decent hours and a nice salary, the same recruiter who had rejected him walked into the workplace. When he recognized the IT pro, he admitted to the real reason his job application was rejected; he was saving him from exploitation.
