The heartbreak of getting rejected
I recently applied for a flight attendant position at Cathay Pacific and today I received this email. What aches me the most is that I never got the chance to prove my worth, I had my resume ATS ready and I have reviewed it like 1000x before pushing through with the application, I never got the chance to be interviewed. All my previous experience were customer service or customer focused and even first-aid training and drills and safety skills. I don’t know any other companies that will hire me as I don’t speak Cantonese but am fluent in English and Filipino. The feeling of receiving this email at 8 in the morning feels like my world is falling apart. Before I applied for this position, I applied to a whole lot of jobs in different industries I could find, not a single company responded to me yet. But today, this made me realized, maybe Hong Kong isn’t for me. I hold a Dependant visa with right to work, but i guess that ends there. With the competition so high up, I don’t think I can fit in. The worst part of this email is I have no idea where I lack and how I can move on. This was so generic and boldly decided to reject me without a clue on why they couldn’t even give me a chance to prove myself. Now, I can finally conclude, after all the rejections I received from applying to different airlines as a flight attendant, (from Philippine-based airlines and international) and getting nowhere with it, I give up. This isn’t really for me. Maybe I dont have the luck or maybe I don’t have their standards. I dont know where my life is going to take me now, after all the preparations I took and the job experiences I made sure to gain just to get myself exposed to “Customer Service Experience” is gonna lead me to. I don’t see hope in the only industry I even put up my time and effort to study, prepared myself into, and dreamed of anymore. What a waste of my entire life and career, thinking Hong Kong can finally made my dream come true and Cathay Pacific was the first airline to finally give me even a slightest chance of becoming a flight attendant.
ps. sorry if this is now becoming more of a rant rather than owning up my failures(which I dont even know where i failed). At this hour, I just felt very hopeless, jobless and unable to see my future from here on now.