#3545661 - 10/28/09 07:19 PM
Re: The official "I'm looking for a job" thread. Post yours here!
[Re: Ares]
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rob_allan
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Wowsers Just had a 3rd interview yesterday. (You'll notice my last post was from 10/9 -- still interviewing at same place. yikes.) Was supposed to last 2 1/2hrs but lasted 3 1/2. Hopefully that's a good thing.
Think there IS something to be said for social networking, though. Applied for this job via a friend passing on my information to the company he works at. Point is-- ask your friends about positions where they work if you haven't already. It can work. (Mind you I don't know if it worked for me, but this far in I have to think I was seriously considered at the least.)
Keep your Archies crossed for me all! (I REALLY want THIS job. I want any job, at this point, obviously. But this one really appeals to me.)
-Rob- Good luck! Is it bad luck to ask you where the job is?
You mean physically or with whom? Warden/401 kinda area if that's what you mean.
-Rob-
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#3545744 - 10/28/09 07:53 PM
Re: The official "I'm looking for a job" thread. Post yours here!
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Ares
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Wowsers Just had a 3rd interview yesterday. (You'll notice my last post was from 10/9 -- still interviewing at same place. yikes.) Was supposed to last 2 1/2hrs but lasted 3 1/2. Hopefully that's a good thing.
Think there IS something to be said for social networking, though. Applied for this job via a friend passing on my information to the company he works at. Point is-- ask your friends about positions where they work if you haven't already. It can work. (Mind you I don't know if it worked for me, but this far in I have to think I was seriously considered at the least.)
Keep your Archies crossed for me all! (I REALLY want THIS job. I want any job, at this point, obviously. But this one really appeals to me.)
-Rob- Good luck! Is it bad luck to ask you where the job is? You mean physically or with whom? Warden/401 kinda area if that's what you mean. -Rob-
I meant with whom.
(Dam Bad Grammar)
I drive past Warden/401 on way home sometimes.
Good Luck
Edited by Ares (10/28/09 07:53 PM)
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#3547029 - 10/29/09 11:25 AM
Re: The official "I'm looking for a job" thread. Post yours here!
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CHABSENTIA
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
Registered: 07/19/07
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You are exactly right.My son lost his job about four months ago.He has a Bachelors degree in Computer design graphics. He interviewed for a job that was not advertised which he heard about through a friend. The first thing they asked him to do was to see if he could approve on their website. Then they had a few other projects to accomplish, Finally after 3 1/2 weeks they had hom take an assessment test which was a Psycology test. Finally they offered him the job at $42,000 and told him to think it over. He was a little disappointed as he was being paid 47K at his last and only job at the end of 5 years. He is 32 and I told him to take the offer. I told him that the 9.8% unemployment figure was nonsense because if you counted people that had lost work and were no longer searching as well as people that lost full time work and had to accept part time work that the average unemployment rate would be 17%. He accepted the offer This was a job he got through a social network and one that took many interviews. Both of my younger Brothers sons just graduated from the University of Texas. One has a Degree in Chinese and Japanese language and is interning in China. The other son received a bachelors degree in Biology. My brother said that he had submitted over a hundred resumes and only received an answer from one and it was not for an interview.
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#3547187 - 10/29/09 12:23 PM
Re: The official "I'm looking for a job" thread. Post yours here!
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Stronguy
Nah, it's only a .38. My mom shoots one of those.
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So it looks like I'll be joining the ranks of the unemployed as of 3/27. My company, Sprint, is reducing it's IT and network operations staff by 40% (about 3800 people). My entire job class has been outsourced to EDS. That effects 32 people I work with day-to-day. I have a chance to work for EDS on the Sprint account but I think it's time for me to move on. So I guess I get a 30 week paid vacation. 
I thought I had updated this thread but apparently not.
Yesterday marked my 1 month anniversary at my new job and the end of my severance from Sprint.
When I left Sprint at the end of March I was already on my second interview with another company, awaiting my 3rd with the CIO (reporting to him). After a couple of weeks nothing materialized so I called my recruiter and he told me they had filled the position internally. In speaking with my inside person she told me that was BS because there was no announcement and they just pulled to req. Come to find out the company had been sued by the State's Attorney General the first week in April so they closed the req. Guess I dodged a bullet.
I went back to the good ole boy network. At the time I had 2 "anytime you're ready to work for us" offers. Neither of them panned out due to the steadily worsening economy. Even the FBI stopped hiring and that's saying something.
Around the beginning of July I decided to start really looking with the hope of getting anything as a stop-gap. I applied for about 20 positions and only had 2 interviews. Both were with C-level executives who both told me the same thing, "We're just not opening new spots because the economy is in the tank. And even if things improve we're probably not going to expand because the president has told us to expect tax increases. Basically we're screwed either way." That came from two different people at different companies.
My fallback in all of this was consulting... there are lots of 6 month contract positions for Project Managers. A friend of mine told me to look at Raytheon again because they had just received another government contract and were hiring. I found a PM position, applied and sent an email to a guy I knew who worked there. Fortunately he was a deep insider so he got my resume to the hiring manager who promptly called me for an interview. Long story short, after 6 weeks of red tape I got the position... out of over 300 applicants (half of which were internal). I took a small pay cut but the benefits are better than they were at Sprint so it's a wash.
Moral of the story...
Regardless of what the media is saying things are getting worse on the employment front.
You need to get as many certification and page filler things on your resume as possible just to differentiate yourself from the other hundred thousand people who are looking for work in your same area.
Network, network, network... get on LinkedIn, go to lunch with old friends, get involved in local networking groups. You don't stand a snowball's chance in hell if you don't.
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#3709975 - 01/11/10 11:52 AM
Re: The official "I'm looking for a job" thread. Post yours here!
[Re: Ares]
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CHABSENTIA
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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Networking seems to be a major help. As I mentioned earlier my Son who has a degree and experience in Computer design graphics got a job through a friend in the same business. They either dont advertise some jobs or they dont advertise them until they have exhausted the social networking.
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#3735174 - 01/22/10 08:52 PM
Re: The official "I'm looking for a job" thread. Post yours here!
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The_Black_Hand
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Networking seems to be a major help. As I mentioned earlier my Son who has a degree and experience in Computer design graphics got a job through a friend in the same business. They either dont advertise some jobs or they dont advertise them until they have exhausted the social networking.
You gave your son good advice about taking the lower salary. What's that expression? A bird in the hand......
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