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  • Lelaina is on paper, an excellent entry level candidate for a lot of journalism jobs. She is after all valedictorian of her graduating class, which is a very effective foot in the door. And this was 1994 with a strong economy, where these kids were complaining about being offered too many choices. So why was she rejected so roundly? Yes, there were instances where she doesn’t demonstrate the level of knowledge she’s supposed to have, but usually that kind of probing is only done by interviewers when they need to weed out applicants, which usually isn’t the case in a secure strong economy. However, if you look at the reason Lelaina was fired, her inability to find work makes sense. She engineered a very public highly embarrassing set of gaffes by a well regarded TV host. That kind of faux pas gets you blacklisted in the industry! If she omits her brief time on that show in a resume, all employers see is an unexplained gap between graduation and job hunting. They’d assume that this gap was just unemployment due to inability to land a job, which makes her an even less desirable candidate.

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