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I have spent 20 years as a medical professional, forced to change careers due to a work injury AND my last two employers actually did close up shop. I was able to reach physicians I worked with during those past 20 years which were willing to vouch for the commitment and excellence I demonstrated during my medical career and my work history.

For the past two years after finishing my training in HR at a accredited college, I have realized that regardless of my new retraining, I will never pass all the hoops that is expected of an HR applicant based upon my injury and the fact that my previous work history is difficult to document.

To apply for an HR position it must be written in stone that anyone that requires a bit more effort to document or check out, they are automatically suspect. I suppose that one must have an immaculate resume with perfect verifiable past work experience. My closest hospital has changed names 6 times during the past 8 years. Is is my fault they move the records somewhere impossible to check?

Stepping up and finding actual physicians willing to take phone calls–PERSONAL calls to verify my work history is a huge thing. How many times has your physician called you personally? But rather than HR see that as an expression of how I was valued within the medical community, an HR department questions whether my contacts are valuable because I offered the private numbers myself.

I never seem to get past one specific question on an interview: “Why would someone with your advanced medical experience be applying for an HR position?” When I am honest and say I had to change careers due to an injury the response is always “Thank you for coming, we will be in touch.” I can forget about working at any medical facility because of this because they “unofficially share” information.

I am a hard worker, motivated and educated. Because of a work injury, and a work history which is difficult to document, I never get past the first interview.

At what point do I simply say I have been a stay-at-home Mom and then went to college and now I am ready for a job. Of course at this point that is as much the truth as the truth. I have been unable to get a job for the past three years, so I am a stay-at-home Mom, but it really isn’t the full truth is it? Say you give me a job based on that part of the truth because it LOOKS better on a resume but later find out I worked for 20 years prior and didn’t disclose it? Would I be fired?

I just want a job. I don’t want to exist. I don’t want to be on welfare!!! I want to be a valuable part of society. Gimme a break. I loved my career and miss it. This was not my fault.

HR demands honesty yet they dabble with dishonesty daily themselves when people like me call and ask, “Please tell me where my resume went wrong–Please help me with input regarding interviewing skills—What can I do to make myself marketable?” BUT nope. You hide behind the rules you use to your favor. You don’t tell the truth. You won’t answer the question. You won’t return the call.

Ironically I was retrained into a field that is unforgiving, unbend able, and inflexible. Human Resources…is a bizarre irony in action. There is nothing human there.