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I've been on several interviews this summer (Over 20, I don't have an exact figure). I've been able to generate an incredible amount of interviews. I've been a contractor and have combined all the jobs into one 2.5 year "super contract". This continues to be met with an incredible amount of condescension. I've been out of work for 5 months.
I was rejected for a recent interview, where the company told the recruiter that "it was a good match and I interviewed very well." But, she said something in the interview that bothered me: "I have a team of women, it's a great team, and I don't want to bring in someone that will mess it up." Did she hire a woman?
I'm clueless. Are there any suggestions on something I could do differently?
That sounds very illegal
I can't really speak to the larger issue of why most interviews are not hiring, but that comment definitely sounds like illegal sex-based discrimination.
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sex.cfm
You not being a woman (at least, I assume by your post you are not) should not impact the hiring decisions unless specifically being a woman is "job-related or necessary to the operation of the business."
I don't really have any answers for you, but if that is the basis for that interviewer's decision, then it's a pretty lousy (and unethical) one.