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Moreover, it's not that HR folks are unsympathetic to your plight. Plenty of them know firsthand what it's like to be unemployed for a painfully long time. SHRM did another survey, this time of HR professionals who'd been out of work (85% due to layoffs) in 2009, and found that of those who recently found a new job, 47% had been job hunting for six to 12 months, and another 27% had been looking for longer than a year. Among those who were still unemployed when SHRM conducted its poll, only 18% expected to find work within six months; 43% thought they'd have to search for a year or more.
The really disheartening part: Among those hired in 2009 after a lengthy search, almost half (49%) said they liked their new jobs less than the ones they had lost. The survey didn't ask why, but my guess would be overwork. HR departments are inundated with resumes, sometimes getting hundreds or even thousands for every available opening. Your carefully crafted resumes are buried somewhere in an ever-mounting pile, and HR staffers are hard-pressed to keep up, let alone give each candidate the kind of individual consideration that he or she deserves.
So how do you get around this? Vicki Barnett, head of a Denver career coaching firm called Make It Happen, says that, instead of sending resumes to HR, you should send them -- either on paper, electronically, or both -- to an executive at the company one or two levels above the hiring manager for the position you want. Granted, that person is likely to be extremely busy too, so he or she will delegate you to the person one or two steps down -- i.e. the one doing the actual hiring.
而且，并非是人力資源部的職員不同情你的遭遇。他們很多人都嘗過很長一段時間沒有工作的滋味。人力資源管理協會進行了另一項調查，調查的對象是在2009年失業的人力資源部職員（其中85％是被裁員）。該調查發現，在新近找到工作的受訪者中，有47％的人用了6－12個月的時間，另外27％的人則花了一年多的時間，而在那些受訪時仍未找到工作的人中，只有18％的人預期將在6個月內找到工作，43％的人認為自己還得再花一年甚至更長的時間。
最令人沮喪的是：在那些花了很長時間，終于在2009年找到工作的人中，有近一半（49％）的人表示更喜歡之前的工作。這份調查并沒有問及原因，但我猜應該是勞累過度的原因。人力資源部堆滿了簡歷，可能應聘一個職位的簡歷就多達幾百甚至數千份。你精心撰寫的簡歷說不定就被埋在堆積如山的簡歷中。人力資源部的雇員們好不容易才能看完簡歷，還哪顧得上體諒每位應聘者的心情。
那么，你應該如何應對這種情況呢？薇姿•巴奈特（Vicki Barnett）是一家位于丹佛的職業指導公司的負責人，該公司名為“夢想成真”（Make It Happen）。巴奈特表示，你不應該將簡歷發給人力資源部，而是應該把簡歷的電子版、紙質或是兩種版本同時發給公司中比負責你所應聘職位的招聘經理高一兩級的主管。當然了，這種人肯定非常繁忙，所以他/她會把你的簡歷轉給比自己低一兩級的人，也就是真正負責招聘的人。
