Sit down interview in a nice office. She was friendly and easy to talk to. I thought the interview went very well. She asked a variety of experience questions, suitability of fit, etc., but ultimately did seem skeptical of my ability to take on the role, despite my obvious passion and best intent. It seems no one is willing to give anyone a shot breaking into a new career, even if you're training at the Master's level for it. What left do you have then but your word, that you won't let them down if given the opportunity, and the promise that you are a fast learner and that your passion could move mountains. I truly believe my educational experience has prepared me well for this role, along with my personal experience dealing with tremendous amounts of paperwork for the State. She did ask me to fill out the application on their website as well, which I did, and told me that if I moved on I'd hear from HR soon. Another day, another dollar lost. No call from HR. No followup after thank you email. Found out via online portal the job was closed. Lo and behold, the posting opened again today on an outside source, but is still shown as closed to me. Negative experience rating given due to lack of followup. Employers really need to understand job seekers are people too, somewhere along the way that has been lost. If I were a recruiter, you would be hearing from me either way. Because, I understand the dedication that comes with spending hours, days, weeks, months, even years seeking a career that will help you feed your children, all to no avail. The least you could do is break it to us nicely so we don't await a call that never comes. Time and time again recruiters do this to us, even lie, have us fill out more paperwork, knowing full well they're throwing us straight into a bin for not meeting "the ever expanding experience trap" that is confining and limiting people to whatever "Career genre" they happen to have landed in. When did people stop believing in the human propensity to learn?