What is going on with potential employers?

I have been to several interviews since I have taken advice from Tech Exams forums regarding my issues with being hired. I get interviews, but nothing pans out.

Example of a more recent interview:
It was with a local hospital for a help desk position(via MODIS a staffing agency), they were only concerned about my lack of enterprise level experience. In which I was forth coming that I could learn quickly and pick up what was needed to be done quite simply.
I explained I spent 16 years doing freelance technology consulting/break fix issues. Everything from re-imaging Win98SE machines, to resetting a router to stock settings and having to rebuild the whole template of security settings for residential use.

Am I missing something? I was told that I didn't get this job because the person they brought on had 5 years experience doing Help Desk. (Who does 5 years Help desk without pursuing more responsibility in another IT job?)

Another recent experience, I was considered for a PC technician, got through 2 interviews, only to never hear back from them, I assume they found someone else as it has been 1 month and I left a message for the hiring manager to call me with an update 10 days from the second interview.

For the most part the staffing agency representative is telling me that the only thing I have not going for me is the lack of Experience. So my AA-IT and my A+/Net+ certs mean pretty much nothing with all that effort I put into getting them?

What are your thoughts?

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volfkhat

techfiend wrote: »

Professional experience with netware?

In college I had to decide between netware 5 or nt 4. Netware was suggested at the time. Before I finished college win 2000 was taking netware's thunder.

So how'd you end up at WGU all those years later?
(just wondering

techfiend

That was my AAS, WGU for BS. WGU was one of the best choices I've made.

NorthStateJoe

You should take this test.

https://www.edjoin.org/Home/JobPosting/979579