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What is the name of your state?I live in Delaware.
Two years ago, at age 18, I enlisted in the Army. I lived in a rural area at the time, which made getting a job anytime before then an impossibility. Other than doing housework, errand running, and shopping for an elderly lady in the neighborhood, I had no previous job experience.
I was taking a medication at the time that I couldn't use during training, and I didn't find this out until I was already there. I was discharged in short order(about a month), and sent home to the same rural area, back to the same lack of career opportunities.
About a year later, after my father married, I was able to move upstate with him. This put me in a much better place to find work (or so I thought), so I got started right away with putting in the job applications for entry level positions in the usual stores and places of business people my age would be found. Surprisingly though, I never have to this day gotten a call back from any of the places I've submitted applications to. I've had to initiate the contact, and whenever I do, I get the usual "We're still reviewing applications.", or "We're not hiring anymore for the time being.", when I know for a fact that other people my age, and even people applying for their first jobs submitted their applications around the same time or after me, were being hired. For a little while I accepted it. It's a college town and since I'm not from the area and am not in school(since I don't have a job so that I can earn the money to attend school), maybe those people have the connections that get them those jobs. But, it's been happening for over a year now. I continue to put in the applications, and check up on them to see if they've been reviewed, but I keep getting the same answers all the time. Nobody even schedules me for an interview. I can't begin to tell you how disappointing it is to actually want to work, and not be able to be hired anywhere.
I'm beginning to think that they may be basing their decision to not hire me simply on my failed attempt at the Army. I was discharged after only a month due to a medical issue. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's not something I can change either.
What are my options as far as this being used against me in the hiring process? It has to be mentioned, since it did happen. But, is there some way to list it without it looking so detrimental? I have little else in the way of job experience, except for helping the elderly lady I mentioned earlier, and I can't use her as a reference anymore because she died recently. I do have skills, but it seems that just because I wasn't able to work at some established place of business before (I lived out in the boonies, in an predominantly Amish community), I'm being discriminated against.
I don't even know if there's anything in the way of legal advice that can be given on this, but even any suggestions as far as the job application process would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
J.K.
Two years ago, at age 18, I enlisted in the Army. I lived in a rural area at the time, which made getting a job anytime before then an impossibility. Other than doing housework, errand running, and shopping for an elderly lady in the neighborhood, I had no previous job experience.
I was taking a medication at the time that I couldn't use during training, and I didn't find this out until I was already there. I was discharged in short order(about a month), and sent home to the same rural area, back to the same lack of career opportunities.
About a year later, after my father married, I was able to move upstate with him. This put me in a much better place to find work (or so I thought), so I got started right away with putting in the job applications for entry level positions in the usual stores and places of business people my age would be found. Surprisingly though, I never have to this day gotten a call back from any of the places I've submitted applications to. I've had to initiate the contact, and whenever I do, I get the usual "We're still reviewing applications.", or "We're not hiring anymore for the time being.", when I know for a fact that other people my age, and even people applying for their first jobs submitted their applications around the same time or after me, were being hired. For a little while I accepted it. It's a college town and since I'm not from the area and am not in school(since I don't have a job so that I can earn the money to attend school), maybe those people have the connections that get them those jobs. But, it's been happening for over a year now. I continue to put in the applications, and check up on them to see if they've been reviewed, but I keep getting the same answers all the time. Nobody even schedules me for an interview. I can't begin to tell you how disappointing it is to actually want to work, and not be able to be hired anywhere.
I'm beginning to think that they may be basing their decision to not hire me simply on my failed attempt at the Army. I was discharged after only a month due to a medical issue. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's not something I can change either.
What are my options as far as this being used against me in the hiring process? It has to be mentioned, since it did happen. But, is there some way to list it without it looking so detrimental? I have little else in the way of job experience, except for helping the elderly lady I mentioned earlier, and I can't use her as a reference anymore because she died recently. I do have skills, but it seems that just because I wasn't able to work at some established place of business before (I lived out in the boonies, in an predominantly Amish community), I'm being discriminated against.
I don't even know if there's anything in the way of legal advice that can be given on this, but even any suggestions as far as the job application process would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
J.K.
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