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Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I think Manpower tends more towards manual labor and unskilled type jobs. Robert Half or Kelly Services would be better bets for your field, I think.
There's an Accountemps office nearby. I tried to register through them online, but all the job experience boxes on the form were for accounting stuff...didn't have a way to submit a resume.
But maybe if I went to the office itself, it'd be of more help, I dunno.
You just need to see if there's one of there divisions, OfficeTeam maybe, that might have stuff that's more up your alley.
Very good, but heavy. Doesn't try to get into the political arguments, so it's pretty free of any bias in that respect. And it doesn't pull any punches about what happened that day... they showed footage of the jumpers at the WTC. ~shudder~
From the searches I've done this evening, looks like there isn't much in the local area other than a few low paying data entry type jobs. Forty or fifty miles away there are some...but I'd really rather not go there if I don't hafta. For one, I'd have to make a lot more to make up for the gas milage, and for another, it'd be a real headache or worse come winter.
But maybe tomorrow when I haven't had a glass of wine and when I'm not falling asleep, I'll go register anyhow.
I don't mean to be a shill for Robert Half, but they do seem to have a fairly accurate screening process. Every time I've sent them a job description they've sent somebody over that really did match up pretty well to what we were looking for. Even for some fairly precise needs, like a C++ programmer or an Active Directory and Exchange 2003 server admin.
In addition, the end-user tech support people they've sent me have been simply outstanding.
We give out mousepads with our phone number, and the word HELP! on it. At one hospital, they didn't use them with the PCs, they stapled them to the bulletin boards in the patients' rooms in the psych unit. We got calls for weeks from patients wanting to get sprung, until we could convince a nursing supervisor to use the mouse pads as originally intended.
hehehe... so how *do* you tell the difference between an ordinary help call and a call from the psych ward? Seems to me most of the people that call me are psychotic.
That's just wonderful.
The genuine nutcases are on some sort of meds, so they're a bit mellower, and more coherent, than our "real" customers.
But that doesn't necessarily mean anything. They may not advertise all of their requests for staff, just maybe a few persistent ones. For example, just because I ask them to send me their top 3 resumes of people with a helpdesk background, doesn't mean that they're advertising for that opening. In fact... it is opened and answered before they'd ever have time to list it as an "opening" on the website or otherwise.
These jobs never hit the web. There isn't time. The important thing is to simply be already in the stable when somebody needs a horse.
Or something like that. Hmmm... lots of alliteration from anxious anchors in precipitous posts.
That's right... when temp agencies advertise for jobs in the paper, what they are really doing is trying to stock up on a particular kind of horse they are low on in the stable.
Hah... I say it here... and it comes out... there...
I'm typing, and singing... BOTH. :-)
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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If "needy" were a turn-on?
What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here! He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.
Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If "needy" were a turn-on?
HA!
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Ohh... now THAT is funny, right thar. :-P
There were complaining phone calls because you were ~sweating~?
No! Nice ones.... worried that I was having a heart attack.
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