Posted on 02/22/2014 11:18:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“If you include in your resume that you spent three years in prison for car theft and assaulting a police officer, it will increase your chances for being hired.”
Really ???
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Patriot Babe...since you are a renter that gives you more flexibility to move to a better location with more opportunities. If you are a single woman there are older folks looking to offer room and board to help with minor household duties. You really have to think out of the box. The truth is that not many people are actually looking for a “job” they are looking for “money”. Brainstorm ways to make money instead of just getting a job.
As a roughneck, yes. It is a miserable dirty job that only pays well because the hours are long and you get a lot of overtime. They don’t care what your history is as long as you look rough enough to survive in a miserable environment and you don’t really have any other options. They want people who can do the job and won’t complain that it is one of the dirtiest jobs on the planet. It is one job you can get with a criminal record.
Jeez I had that job once too!
I thought it was gonna be so cool working at the Speed Barns LOL
Thanks-—I had to Google “roughneck” because I wasn’t quite sure what they did.
Learn something every day.
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She may find some ambulance service that might hire her, but I doubt it.
She should go to work at a grocery store starting at the bottom, in a year or two she would probably make the same as she did before and with benefits.
FROM THE MARKET.
She has no one willing to hire her at her old wage, so she is not worth the wage she was getting before more than likely.
For her children she should consider WalMart, McDonalds, Seven Eleven and so forth.
I understand what you are saying and I do tailor my resume to the specific job, research the company, and write a cover letter that expresses my desire to join their exiting world class company.
I do got to companies fave to face, they will ALL tell you to apply online.
Your very best bet is to know some one in the firm that you can get your resume to so as to bypass the gatekeepers.
When applying for a job as a “roughneck” in the oil fields.
He was being sarcastic.
I would suggest that your son join some volunteer organizations in his community. Usually they are filled with older people who love to see a young man with some “snap”. Great way to get out in the community and showcase his work ethic. I would also suggest going on “Meetup.com” and networking with people who share his interests.
Oh they are the worst. Many I got were indeed in my area, but others were just about 9 ballparks away from anything I had ever done or would ever be qualified to do.
I seriously wonder if they are part of the problem with people finding jobs.
At least back in the day, when you were looking at a newspaper you knew that (99.99999% of the time, because I think even then some ads were fake, maybe they were part of some spy code or something, I don’t know) the job was real and it was available. It cost good money to put an ad in the Sunday Times and nobody was doing that as a lark and the ads didn’t stay in for weeks (and months!) on end once the job got filled.
Trista should think about using her knowledge of couponing to start a business. Offer couponing classes or even offer to cut the coupons and organize them for people who are too busy or just want to outsource it to someone with more expertise. Maybe advertise in her community that she would do the grocery shopping for elderly folks who find it hard to get out and shop.
I think everyone in our firm has been hired because they knew someone at the company. If you have a friend at a company you want to work for, send them the resume and have them give it to the person in charge of hiring that position. If you are hired and you work out, there is usually a bonus paid to the employee for the referral. At least that's the way it works at our firm.
Our mail room and file rooms are filled with people who all went to school together or who knew each other before they were hired. Generally we only hire attorneys that someone in the firm knows personally and can vouch for them. Then when that person is hired, the attorney who made the referral gets a big bonus if they are still with the company after 6 months.
The market is basically closed to people who don't know anyone at the job they are applying for. The only exception are those employers who are desperate to find people to work for them and as a general rule, if they are desperate to find employees, it is because they are impossible to work with.
Actually I was being facetious.
But in some professions having spent time in prison is a resume enhancer. These are usually for jobs nobody else would want to do.
I think it is a huge problem.
Everyone I know that has had to use the process has complained about how faceless it is.
Time to rebuild my network.
How many people are looking outside their comfort zone? Just my industry there are LOTS of opportunities for machinists. There are retraining programs even in my little city. It is crappy in Obamaville, I know. But after 99 weeks, come on. There is nothing you could have done after all that time?
I was unemployed for 12 months and not only am I proud of my skills and work ethic but I am already better at my current job in six months than some other people working there for years.
You may wish to revise your theory.
I doubt if things are going to get better in your area. May have to move.
Of course that's a bit difficult with no money or contacts.
Good luck. We'll keep you in our prayers.
You have my sympathies. You might want to read the askamanager blog for her advice on resumes, cover letters, etc.
You could make your own work. Create crafts and get a booth at your local craft fair. Or plant a garden and sell produce at the farmer’s market. Have yard sales — they are a lot of work, but you can make money (you go to yard sales of people who are just unloading stuff, buy them out, and then work at making presentable items which you sell at a higher price and wait for the right buyer).
You could also put flyers in the doors in your neighborhood offering to do cleaning and other services. Unfortunately, some things you might run afoul of government regulations, like you can’t just offer to drive old people to the grocery store because of the “taxi” rules.
I do understand — the easiest thing to do is to find someone else who did the hard work of figuring out how to sell a product or provide a service, and then hitch your wagon to theirs by taking a job with their company. But that isn’t the only way to earn a living, especially not in the internet era, where millions of people have full-time jobs selling items on e-bay and Craig’s list.
My son made $400 acting in a commercial once. And me and my two kids make almost $1000 a year each working weekends in October as haunt monsters at the local theme park. I do that while working a full-time job.
And for 8 years, I made $30 a week writing a column for the local newspaper. If you have a local paper, submit some editorial/opinion columns and see if you can get picked up.
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