Rhinestone | J.H. Palmer

Recently a prospective employer told me that the job I was interviewing for had received 350 applications in response to the posting.  I considered what this meant: my chances of getting offered the job were one in 350, or .2 percent, as in two tenths of one percent. Harvard University currently has an acceptance rate of 5.9 percent, or 30 times the acceptance rate of the entry level job I was interviewing for. So, it’s come to this: I’m preparing […]