manager cancelled my interview within 5 minutes of setting it up
So this morning I got a call from a development manager at a staff agency I submitted my resume to last night. She said she was interested in my experience and during the call she even emailed an invite to the interview and then she ended the call seemingly excited. I kid not even 5 minutes she called back saying she is cancelling the interview.
I asked why and she said she looked at my resume and saw a gap between my last job that ended june '23 (for a yr) and my current job that started last spring. I explained to her its bc I was in my last 2 years of college from '23 and graduated last may so I was focusing on school. She then said my asking salary was too high since that's for "seasoned experience" Obviously I disagree, its rlly just my target salary for the area since its in dc/nova. My range is actually 80k-90k and I would've put that down but the application woudn't let me write a range. She didn't even let me explain that n I feel so fucked over.
I said ok and took the L but thats crazyy work to not notice my "gap" before hand and say my desired salary is too much before wasting my time/energy and getting my hopes up. I think my 3 years in the industry during undergrad and post grad is honestly not bad tbh. She also didnt tell me what position i would be interviewing for when I asked in the initial call which I thought was odd. I didn't apply for a position I just submitted my resume to them, so had she told me the position I was interviewing for I would've said something lower if reasonable.
anybody have experience with pridestaff? should I avoid them after all this or just try another agency in the area?