In case you didn’t notice it, a lot of banks and other financial firms have been bought or liquidated. That translates into tens of thousands of people looking for a job that came from a business that failed.
Politics likes to play “guilt by association,” but sometimes hiring managers do too. If you worked for a failed company…you failed as well. And you don’t get hired. Just put yourself in the hiring manager’s position: when you get down to choices…you with a failed company and someone else coming from a successful company…who would you hire?
Makes you self-assured, now doesn’t it?
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