>> Following our first round of interviews, it was our intention to create
>> a shortlist of candidates to progress to second. Unfortunately on this
>> occasion we made the decision not to progress your application further.
>> The reasons for this are in relation to your skills set, whilst you
>> demonstrate some good skills we felt that this was more toward technical
>> development rather than web based business development.
>>
>> Thank you for contacting us and I wish you well in your future search
>> for employment.
>
> OK, so it's worse than I thought. It appears that not only did I not get
> the job, I didn't even make it to the second round of interviews.
>
> I'm also a little bit concerned about this throw-away sentence about me
> having skills for "technical development" rather than "web-based
> business development". It's not the first time I've heard such things,
> either. The previous interview, the interviewer suggested that I would
> be more suited to academia then commercial software development.
>
> Perhaps it's because my CV says Pascal, Eiffel, Haskell, Lisp and
> Prolog, rather than saying C, C++, Java, VB and Perl. Perhaps it's
> because I build fractal generators and encryption software rather than
> content management systems or mobile apps. But for whatever reason, it
> seems companies don't see me as being "real world" enough...
>
> Looks like I might just be doomed to unemployment forever. :-(

Or you just applied to the wrong place (not that you can know that 
before interviews, or sometimes not even until after you have started). 
I got a similar rejection saying I didn't have enough commercial 
experience. There are other companies and other jobs out there with 
different requirements.

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