The Resume Building/Interview Process/Job Hunting tips thread...

[Crakface]

Now is a good time for 6 figure men to have 2 wives. These women do not want to go to the hood. So called providers getting laid off with no chance of employment in sight. Your unemployed neighbors wife seein you talkin bout *HOW ARE YOUUUUUUU DOIN *

 

[FaTaL]

 

[Daniel.]

Do you guys get anything out of Linked In? It seems to me that there is absolutely nothing to gain except another way of getting someone's email address.

Networking and perception are definite benefits, even if I haven't fully reaped them. I've gotten interviews from speaking to recruiters through Linkedin, you can scout employers and people ahead of time if you like to game-plan before interviews and maybe even find old friends, co-workers, connections in your field that you otherwise may not have known about that might get you an in. It's not an absolute anything, but it certainly doesn't hurt.

Plus if you have people that can vouch for you and endorse you, that's a nice passive way of showing your worth to a potential employer before ever speaking to them. Again, it doesn't guarantee anything, but every little bit helps.

 

[DirtyMoney]

[quote="bravaDo
shyt's tough out here.[/quote]
Where i live you would prob earn $1k a day. It aint that tuff hombre. Netwokring is key

 

[NZA]

with an economy like this, there is probably not much anyone can do to improve their chances in getting a new job. the number of applicants for each job has turned hiring into an almost completely arbitrary exercise. hell, some of these job postings are not real, they are for something else, like information gathering or pretending you did a search before just hiring your buddy.

before a company sets pay, they can post a fake job ad. the number of applications and the average qualifications will let them know just how low the pay can be while getting the highest quality applicant. ive read differing estimates on just how many job postings are fake, but the point is, it seems like a fairly large phenomenon.

all you can really do is make sure your resume contains the exact keywords employers are looking for, they probably have a computer searching and weeding people out so they can get through the hundreds of applications quickly

 

[88m3]

I ended up working for myself.

It's all a racket no matter what you're paid in the end. If I put myself in a position to where I have an offer to the point that I feel it is worth it to work with a company I may reconsider. Until then I'm happy doing what I enjoy. The last corporate job I had was a complete mess, there was an acquisition of the company, and I came in the middle of that process, a lot of people were out of their depth, and it left a really bad taste in my mouth.

"Only to be told no one could say anything "constructive" about me". That's very typical these days, I've been told.
I really don't get it, maybe that's some new management/hr tactic?

 

[NZA]

"Only to be told no one could say anything "constructive" about me". That's very typical these days I've been told. I really don't get it, maybe that's some new management/hr tactic?

this is the first time i have ever heard of this. i think they simply have so many applicants they need every excuse to say that basically you are not special and they have 3 stanford grads willing to do it.

 

[88m3]

this is the first time i have ever heard of this. i think they simply have so many applicants they need every excuse to say that basically you are not special and they have 3 stanford grads willing to do it.

It could be a New York thing but I doubt it. It's really not about the number of applicants in my cases. I'm talking about after multiple interviews, down to the wire situations. In the past feedback was always a given out of courtesy, and respect. They weren't "young people" either that it happened to, multiple masters in some cases, and years of exemplary experience in their fields. Another thing that I feel that happens a lot is companies can get away with hiring recent college grads, and underpaying them because they don't know how to negotiate. Not long afterwards they're fired and replaced by the next drone.

Just my thoughts, who knows.

 

[无名的]

Let me break it down why many don't land jobs.

1) You aren't networking. My wife networked and landed a job 2 years ago where she's on pace to make 100k this year at 26 years old with only a high school education and no relevant experience.

2) You expect more than you're worth. This is a by product of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation.

3) You suck at interviews. Get off the Internet. Stop texting. Try to remember how life was when people interacted face-to-face on a regular basis.

4) You love excuses. Yeah, you got a worthless degree. Either shut the hell up and take the most entry level job you can get to work your way up in a company, or take out more loans and get a degree with return on investment like Computer Science. Stop blaming your degree, the recession that passed you by, and globalization.

5) You lack drive and creativity. Go make something happen. Think outside the box. I started with a few bucks and flipped items on eBay. Through the lessons I learned, the ideas I thought of, and the profit I made, that turned into owning a business with employees in under a year.

There's plenty more reasons, but why are you still reading this? You shouldn't be on Internet forums. You should be looking for a job or making one.

 

[Daniel.]

with an economy like this, there is probably not much anyone can do to improve their chances in getting a new job. the number of applicants for each job has turned hiring into an almost completely arbitrary exercise. hell, some of these job postings are not real, they are for something else, like information gathering or pretending you did a search before just hiring your buddy.

before a company sets pay, they can post a fake job ad. the number of applications and the average qualifications will let them know just how low the pay can be while getting the highest quality applicant. ive read differing estimates on just how many job postings are fake, but the point is, it seems like a fairly large phenomenon.

all you can really do is make sure your resume contains the exact keywords employers are looking for, they probably have a computer searching and weeding people out so they can get through the hundreds of applications quickly

Very disheartening. On one interview I went on where I was going in for an HR Assistant role in a small consultant start-up I had an interviewer who I guess got a lil too comfortable opening up to me about the ugly side of the shyt they have to do sometimes, tell me how some of the groups they work with other firms that will dead ass tell them "find us a woman, blonde hair, blue eyes, with a degree from Stanford" as a means of shaping the recruitment the group did. My initial response was to laugh, but he said he was said serious about how blatantly discriminatory certain companies could be in their requests - at a law firm, no less.

 

[NZA]

Very disheartening. On one interview I went on where I was going in for an HR Assistant role in a small consultant start-up I had an interviewer who I guess got a lil too comfortable opening up to me about the ugly side of the shyt they have to do sometimes, tell me how some of the groups they work with other firms that will dead ass tell them "find us a woman, blonde hair, blue eyes, with a degree from Stanford" as a means of shaping the recruitment the group did. My initial response was to laugh, but he said he was said serious about how blatantly discriminatory certain companies could be in their requests - at a law firm, no less.

especially at a law firm. anybody who will be the face of the company but not relied upon for special skills will probably be picked for looks. men are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to HR or administrative assistant type stuff

 

[Black Nate Grey]

This is the thing that is discouraging me from going to college/university, I'm not the most academically inclined brotha around but If I really tried I know I could do alright.
However I get a degree and then what? Can't find a job? Needed prior experience?
Then there is the debt factor involved.
shyt just makes me wanna enter the trades or something.

Unfortunately for me my standards are too damn high, I am dead set on being rich and not working 9-5 doing something I don't enjoy, but don't know how to go about starting.


Ah, well if shyt doesn't work out



then plan B is to be the head of an International Drug Empire

 

[Wild self]

Let me break it down why many don't land jobs.

1) You aren't networking. My wife networked and landed a job 2 years ago where she's on pace to make 100k this year at 26 years old with only a high school education and no relevant experience.

2) You expect more than you're worth. This is a by product of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation.

3) You suck at interviews. Get off the Internet. Stop texting. Try to remember how life was when people interacted face-to-face on a regular basis.

4) You love excuses. Yeah, you got a worthless degree. Either shut the hell up and take the most entry level job you can get to work your way up in a company, or take out more loans and get a degree with return on investment like Computer Science. Stop blaming your degree, the recession that passed you by, and globalization.

5) You lack drive and creativity. Go make something happen. Think outside the box. I started with a few bucks and flipped items on eBay. Through the lessons I learned, the ideas I thought of, and the profit I made, that turned into owning a business with employees in under a year.

There's plenty more reasons, but why are you still reading this? You shouldn't be on Internet forums. You should be looking for a job or making one.

Trust me, there are not enough jobs in this economy. Even Computer science and IT majors are gonna get shot out of a job when technology improves and CEOs get even greedier.

 

[NZA]

This is the thing that is discouraging me from going to college/university, I'm not the most academically inclined brotha around but If I really tried I know I could do alright.
However I get a degree and then what? Can't find a job? Needed prior experience?
Then there is the debt factor involved.
shyt just makes me wanna enter the trades or something.

Unfortunately for me my standards are too damn high, I am dead set on being rich and not working 9-5 doing something I don't enjoy, but don't know how to go about starting.


Ah, well if shyt doesn't work out



then plan B is to be the head of an International Drug Empire

tradeschool for about 1.5 years, work for somebody else for 5 years, start your own company

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Let me break it down why many don't land jobs.

1) You aren't networking. My wife networked and landed a job 2 years ago where she's on pace to make 100k this year at 26 years old with only a high school education and no relevant experience.

2) You expect more than you're worth. This is a by product of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation.

3) You suck at interviews. Get off the Internet. Stop texting. Try to remember how life was when people interacted face-to-face on a regular basis.

4) You love excuses. Yeah, you got a worthless degree. Either shut the hell up and take the most entry level job you can get to work your way up in a company, or take out more loans and get a degree with return on investment like Computer Science. Stop blaming your degree, the recession that passed you by, and globalization.

5) You lack drive and creativity. Go make something happen. Think outside the box. I started with a few bucks and flipped items on eBay. Through the lessons I learned, the ideas I thought of, and the profit I made, that turned into owning a business with employees in under a year.

There's plenty more reasons, but why are you still reading this? You shouldn't be on Internet forums. You should be looking for a job or making one.

how many hrs she works a week?