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Moreover, it's not that HR folks are unsympathetic to your plight. Plenty of them know firsthand what it's like to be unemployed for a painfully long time. SHRM did another survey, this time of HR professionals who'd been out of work (85% due to layoffs) in 2009, and found that of those who recently found a new job, 47% had been job hunting for six to 12 months, and another 27% had been looking for longer than a year. Among those who were still unemployed when SHRM conducted its poll, only 18% expected to find work within six months; 43% thought they'd have to search for a year or more.
The really disheartening part: Among those hired in 2009 after a lengthy search, almost half (49%) said they liked their new jobs less than the ones they had lost. The survey didn't ask why, but my guess would be overwork. HR departments are inundated with resumes, sometimes getting hundreds or even thousands for every available opening. Your carefully crafted resumes are buried somewhere in an ever-mounting pile, and HR staffers are hard-pressed to keep up, let alone give each candidate the kind of individual consideration that he or she deserves.
So how do you get around this? Vicki Barnett, head of a Denver career coaching firm called Make It Happen, says that, instead of sending resumes to HR, you should send them -- either on paper, electronically, or both -- to an executive at the company one or two levels above the hiring manager for the position you want. Granted, that person is likely to be extremely busy too, so he or she will delegate you to the person one or two steps down -- i.e. the one doing the actual hiring.
而且，并非是人力资源部的职员不同情你的遭遇。他们很多人都尝过很长一段时间没有工作的滋味。人力资源管理协会进行了另一项调查，调查的对象是在2009年失业的人力资源部职员（其中85％是被裁员）。该调查发现，在新近找到工作的受访者中，有47％的人用了6－12个月的时间，另外27％的人则花了一年多的时间，而在那些受访时仍未找到工作的人中，只有18％的人预期将在6个月内找到工作，43％的人认为自己还得再花一年甚至更长的时间。
最令人沮丧的是：在那些花了很长时间，终于在2009年找到工作的人中，有近一半（49％）的人表示更喜欢之前的工作。这份调查并没有问及原因，但我猜应该是劳累过度的原因。人力资源部堆满了简历，可能应聘一个职位的简历就多达几百甚至数千份。你精心撰写的简历说不定就被埋在堆积如山的简历中。人力资源部的雇员们好不容易才能看完简历，还哪顾得上体谅每位应聘者的心情。
那么，你应该如何应对这种情况呢？薇姿•巴奈特（Vicki Barnett）是一家位于丹佛的职业指导公司的负责人，该公司名为“梦想成真”（Make It Happen）。巴奈特表示，你不应该将简历发给人力资源部，而是应该把简历的电子版、纸质或是两种版本同时发给公司中比负责你所应聘职位的招聘经理高一两级的主管。当然了，这种人肯定非常繁忙，所以他/她会把你的简历转给比自己低一两级的人，也就是真正负责招聘的人。
