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Just saying...I spent a fair amount of time in a hiring position and applicants often think they are perfect when they actually have no idea what we're looking for.  One of the biggest things we looked for was people with accountability and the certain knowledge that they are NOT perfect.
You could also read your post from the outside looking in. Imagine you are a recruiter or hiring manager. Do you think you want to bring someone on who thinks, "I should've been teaching the teacher". Someone who says things like that might not be the type of person others want to work with. >

I would never say such a thing publicly... 
With that said, it would be shockingly cruel to disqualify someone from life-enhancing opportunities on the basis of an arbitrary comment and with no further context. I would hope these strict standards would be in place for all applicants, and not just me. >


… it would be shockingly cruel to disqualify someone from life-enhancing opportunities…

I think you are looking at this from the wrong angle. No hiring recruiter is thinking, “I’m going to ruin this person’s career”, and they also aren’t thinking “this person’s career deserves a leg up”. They aren’t passing a judgement on your life.
To the extent that ever happens, that’s a school thing. Your guidance counselor or a professor might try to push you forward. A professor who hates you might even try to sabotage you. But in the job market you’ve moved past that into a new question.
When a recruiter looks at you/your resume, he’s deciding “among all these people, which is the best fit for this particular position”. And I’m not going to tell you bias doesn’t come into that, because it absolutely does. But it’s not about your life. It’s only about this one job and this one hiring manager and his one favorite candidate.
That’s what makes this such a tricky social problem to solve. How do you stop that hiring manager from showing bias? You can’t just hand off the process to an objective formula, because there isn’t one. Intangibles do matter. >

I think you read too much into a sarcastic comment. 
The fact is it WOULD be shockingly cruel to disqualify someone for an arbitrary, made-up reason when they put so much effort and hope into the interview process. In worst case scenarios, a hiring manager being so careless can trigger a multi-million dollar lawsuit against their company.  
I focus on biases in all interviews now to get an advantage. I've had good success. What I feel a moral obligation to do is to wake people up who may not be as fortunate as I am to know that any of this is real, and who keep trying time and time again and finding closed doors, or finding themselves in a job they can tolerate, but that is really below them. >

Whoa...hold up now.  

The fact is it WOULD be shockingly cruel to disqualify someone for an arbitrary, made-up reason when they put so much effort and hope into the interview process. In worst case scenarios, a hiring manager being so careless can trigger a multi-million dollar lawsuit against their company

Noone owes you a job and I don't know what lawsuit you think you could bring based on you saying a bone-headed thing in an interview.  Employers don't have to give a reason for not hiring. >


Noone owes you a job and I don't know what lawsuit you think you could bring based on you saying a bone-headed thing in an interview. Employers don't have to give a reason for not hiring.

It is literally illegal for employers to discriminate based on protected characteristics, at least here in the US. As far as I'm concerned, I literally am owed equal consideration as others in application processes. 
However, the point is moot, as I've been employed full time for many years, earning a decent amount of pay and have amassed huge amounts in savings. >

Discrimination based on protected characteristics is illegal.  Saying something dumb in an interview isn't protected. >

I mean, I worked in HR as a recruiter for 6 years, and this post reads like it was written by a bad candidate. The total lack of self-awareness and arrogance came through strongly. “Soft skills” are a thing, and if you were as smart as it seems you think you are, you’d realize that in 2022 there are enough people fighting for jobs that there’s likely to be candidates as smart as you who are also like-able. >

Bias:  preferring one person, thing, or idea in a way that is unfair.

I was denied from a PERFECT fit for a position, after writing a PERFECT essay

Would you say that this statement is biased? >

I would call it hyperbole to make a point.