Posted on 02/11/2011 7:39:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s a situation facing many people: even though you have experience, you’re still struggling to get a job, let alone a single interview.
Even though the economy is improving and there are increased job openings, gone are the days when simply submitting your cover letter and resume will result in HR knocking on your door for an interview.
Job seekers need to be a lot more proactive and strategic with who and how they network to ensure they stay top-of-mind to not only hiring managers, but also to people within their own personal networks who can lend a job-filled hand.
Below are five reasons why you’re probably not getting noticed along with suggestions on how to not only improve your chances, but also connect you to the job you actually want.
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As others have probably noted, it's been that way for a while. All this 'equality' and 'diversity' stuff is crap in any aspect that actually matters.
I have been given more job duties many of which do not relate to my education or experience (IT). Make fewer people do more work. Then when you try to fill an empty spot (we have had an opening for several months now) you can’t find anybody because the expectations are unrealistic.
I had to chuckle when I read your post.
When I left my Previous Employer I held the following jobs.
1. Computer Engineer
2. Computer Operations Manager.
3. Supply guy, AKA Purchasing Agent, Shipping and receiving and Storage manager.
4. Building Engineer and Primary Property Custodian.
I was on call 24/7/365. and every damn one of the Union people made more than I did by a bunch! My company also was very niggardly about yearly raises that never matched inflation and in fact we normally got zero raise every two years or so. There was no COLA for the Exempt workers.
And it took them almost a year to get a replacement for my slot. Who from what I hear on the grapevine might be up to speed in a couple more years. But She manages to fill a number of minority slots on the payroll and was therefore qualified.
Bitter? Not at all, life is good right now.
The guy at my place offered two weeks notice and was politely told that it wouldn't be necessary, then he was given an escort out.
Frankly, I'd welcome an escort (he didn't, quite loudly actually). If someone cuts off my accounts and escorts me out, then I can't get blamed for any issues. But whatever, he's going to have problems if he stays in the area.
I'm hearing that hiring in my area (the Southeast) is picking up. Managers are talking about salary reviews, to be sure that they're staying competitive. First time I've heard that kind of talk in awhile. Things might be picking up - you hearing anything in your area?
I read on FR yesterday the BLS report that for experienced college level professionals the unemployment rate was only 4%.
I might believe that. My company has been hiring MBA's to work the phones. They can't find the 100K/yr corner office jobs, so they're doing what they need to do to make ends meet. $12-15/hr (and promotion prospects) looks good when compared to sitting at home, I suppose.
When I talked to the director in charge of that department, she was loving it. In a good market, it's a cruddy job, high turnover, hard to find good people to stay staffed up. For the last 12-18 months, she's been getting and keeping topnotch people for the positions.
So, I bet unemployment is necessarily low. Wonder what "underemployment" looks like.
I'm starting to pay attention to what the market looks like for IT. Will see how my company does with a few things, there's been a lot of turnover in my dept lately.
I don’t care how desperate I get...God forbid...I am NOT opening a social networking account on Facebook/Twitter/MtSpace. Never gonna happen.
Absolutely. I recently applied on line for a job in a call center. Though there was nothing in the app that asked for my age, one of the on line “tests” I was required to take included an age question and there was no choice for “I’d rather not tell you”.
Their defense, if I were to raise the issue, would be that the “test” was given by a third party company, not by the company I was applying to.
I have not yet received a call back and I don’t expect one.
I can’t believe the number of people that make want to look for matches.
I can’t believe the number of people that make me want to look for matches.
I'm wrestling with deciding on a "LinkedIn" account right now.
Don't want it. I had one for a bit, and every clown that I ever sat across the table from at a meeting dive-bombed me, looking for jobs or a job reference.
But, I might need to buckle to pressure and do it.
If that's the case, no one should ever hire anyone.
So one has to decide on a course of action early: either get that MBA from a top school by age 30 and try to compete your way into an upper management slot, or use your employee years as an apprenticeship and learn what you need to know to start your own business by age 40. The days of sitting in the corner cubicle as an Accounting Supervisor or Senior Software Engineer until age 65 are long gone. There was no formal notice given - but the world has changed.
If what this writer says is true, I’m in deep trouble. While some jobs are definitely filled by “who you know”, I’m not convinced that social networking is that great a benefit. It seems to me that spending all ones time on Facebook and Twitter just means you’re less serious about finding a real job.
So true bump
RE: the fly in their ointment being 38 years of legalized abortion have left them with a dwindling, truncated pool of younger workers
Well, what to say? We have an international economy and there are countries that have the labor pool, have qualified people who are willing to work for less and don’t abort their babies en masse.
One word for it -— OUTSOURCING.
I did sign up some years ago at the request of a colleague. "What's the harm?" I thought? Same results as you got. I terminated that account post haste. No need for that kind of aggravation.
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