enlightened

'Member that opportunity of a lifetime that I was lamenting over a few weeks ago? Well, learned some interesting information that pretty much gives me closure on the whole situation.

I thought I was on equal footing and that going head to head, I lost. Apparently I didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting the job. As it turns out, my "nemesis" goes way back with the hiring manager, and so in essence, I was the "token" other candidate so they could check the box.

So when I read the rejection email that said "You have a solid background and have done some interesting work. However, at this point, we are going to pursue another candidate whose background is a better fit with our needs"... what they meant was "Thanks for giving it the good ol' college try, but we already had our person picked for this job. Thanks for playing, try again later."

Oh well, in business it's about your network/relationships. And in this case, it wasn't in my favor. Clearly nothing to be done differently would've changed the outcome of this particular situation.