My Life Unemployed 10

My Life Unemployed #10

Intro

Hooray! Hooray! It's Life Unemployed #10! It is also Labor Day ironically. Funny how I'm not employed during Labor Day. Maybe I should be sobbing and not celebrating that fact that it's my 10th blog about being unemployed. Here are some Fun Facts (well there not really fun facts) about my Job Search. I shall call them Sad Facts instead. Here is a look at my life by the numbers.

Sad Facts

Days Unemployed: 38

Business Days Unemployed: 25

Jobs Applied for: 10

Cover Letters Written: 9

Interviews: 3

Hours I Searched for Jobs: N/A

Days on Vacation: 12 days

Business Days on Vacation: 8 days

Statistical Job Analysis

I have applied for 10 jobs and have had 3 interviews. Statistically speaking, I have 30% chance of getting an interview for every 10 jobs I apply for. That's a low percentage yet has a lot of potential to grow.

I have had 3 interviews all with non profit companies. I have had no job offers after these interviews. So, as it stands I'm 0 for 3 with job offers after interviews. As of now, I have a 0% chance of getting a job after the interviews. These are the plain facts. Numbers don't lie.

Lets take a deeper look in the numbers. I have been unemployed for 25 business days and have been on vacation for 8 business days. I have been on vacation for nearly a quarter (25%) of my unemployment. My first strategy will be implementing a "No Vacation Policy" effective immediately thus having more time to dedicate to the job search.

Overall, I have applied for 10 jobs in 25 business days. This comes out to 1 job application per 2.5 days. This includes writing a cover letter as well. The data shows that I need to be applying to at least 1 job per day. If I apply to 1 job per 5 business days I should be able to get 1 interview per week. The data also suggests that for every interview I get I have a 0% chance of getting the job. In conclusion, I'm a failure with a 0% chance of succeeding. I have the data to back it up. It's all right here. Ball don't lie.

Conclusion

In looking at the data and speaking in terms of the quantitative theory; we need to look at the variables, predicted factors, and the correlation of the values to support my 0% theory on never getting a job. We can conclude that I have a 0% chance of getting a non profit job (since those are the jobs I have most applied for). I could propose an alternate hypothesis in that I would have a higher percentage of a job offer if I applied for a job in different sector. However that theory is quickly eradicated by the fact that I only have non profit experience. It's nullified and will have great consequences in the ratio of percentages. It's a preposterous assumption that will negatively affect the outcome of my self esteem, life, and motivation. It's a model that can not be continued or my life as we know it may not exist.