Posted on 08/15/2014 6:23:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mostly, HR looking busy.
GOOD jobs: It's just plain, ordinary, old-fashioned good luck.
All other jobs: It's when there happens to be an opening and you are willing to work 24/7 for peanuts.
Not much has changed.
An “opening” isn’t really an opening unless there is a definite intention to hire the best applicant who actually shows up.
RE: Could have used some Excel training (more than basic)
FIFTEEN MONTHS WOULD HAVE ALREADY TRAINED YOU WHILE YOU WORK THERE...
RE: An “opening” isn’t really an opening unless there is a definite intention to hire the best applicant who actually shows up.
IOW, the so called “So many job opening” (see the title) might not necessarily be job openings...
Yes and no.
It doesn't matter how many people you know, if they all consider you to be incompetent.
Conversely, if I'm looking at two applicants, and one of them has somebody (whose opinion I trust) vouching for them, the vouched-for person gets the job. Over my entire working life, most of the good jobs and contracts I've gotten, I've gotten because somebody the manager knew recommended me.
.....Or looking for H-1Bs
These days, this is passing for a job interview:
Interviewer: We will need full access to your Facebook page, at this time in your interview process.
Interviewee: Sorry, I don’t have a Facebook account.
Interviewer: This interview is finished. Thank you for coming in today.
There’s nothing in this article that wasn’t true in 1950.
DH saw this a lot in the insurance industry. Also recruiters who tried to use resumes to get the account (when, in reality, they had no “in” with the employer at all).
Someone on a message board posited (or maybe they knew) that companies were posting these “available jobs” for the sake of investors, to create the impression that they had more business than they actually did.
OK, so create a FB account, have only relatives friended, and post only things like family pics, how the kids are doing in school, and vacation pics. Done.
Some people see FB as a bigger problem and stay off it on principle. Either way, today’s businesses see that as a sign of a non-conformist and instead pluck their drones from the center of the cluster.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Most business post jobs because it is the law but they already have someone in mind (usually internal). Therefore the real trick is to get yourself on the hiring managers mind for the next job he or she is looking to fill.
Job postings online are usually with sky high expectations so they can refuse you for someone they already have in mind.
“It doesn’t matter how many people you know, if they all consider you to be incompetent. “
ROFLMAO!
RE: Most business post jobs because it is the law but they already have someone in mind (usually internal).
So, all these jobs posting are really not because of new businesses or expansions because of the economy is expanding... it’s just shuffling internal staff around.
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