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ITT: I suck at job hunting, do you?

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Blue Kitty:
With the college thing, many colleges have sites that local business' use to post job openings.  It's actually how I got two of my jobs.

Emaline:
In the mean time of being unemployed, do what Tania says and do some volunteer work! It looks awesome on your resume. When I have "Helped raise over $10,000 for The Wishlist Foundation" I always get interviews, and people love talking about it, and the founder is one of my references and she thinks I am awesome. So its a pretty good win win.

A Wet Helmet:
Generally speaking, I really suck at job hunting.   I have a very wide range of disciplines in my background which makes me an absolute specialist in nothing.    Though it really is very often a benefit to be able to speak with some degree of authority on a wide range of subjects in practice, it translates horribly to a resume. Especially when those disciplines are not necessarily obviously related.

Did I mention that my resume looks like ass?  HR folks don't look for dabblers as a rule. 

About an hour ago though a recruiter called me saying "Oh my God, I've been looking for you forever!"   ...And this is how I always end up with jobs.  Someone needs to fill three or four half-time slots with one body and needs a generalist like me.  For the last half dozen years somebody calls me and makes me an offer, I help them out for awhile, then somebody else calls.   I'm keeping my fingers crossed, because it's definitely time to GTFO from under my current employer. 

I'm so glad I'm not searching.   Every time I search I get really frustrated and discouraged. 

Jimmy the Squid:
While I already have a job I'm looking for something in retail because quite frankly I like it and I figure if I want to open my own shop one day the bank will look at me better if I can show that I've been a manager of a store for a while (typically I've made assistant manager within a year of all my retail jobs because it's really piss easy work if you're halfway intelligent and put effort in). That said, I've been looking for work since January and I still haven't found anything. I can't get a job in the only places that are hiring (all high end fashion and lingerie stores) and since I haven't been in retail for 3 years I effectively have no retail experience because HR fucks (sorry, if you're in HR you're basically a terrible human being at least between the hours of 9am and 5pm) won't look at anything that isn't recent despite the fact that my resume is fucking awesome. I honestly rue the day I got a job in a call centre as it's basically fucked my chances of getting back into retail at least until Christmas. Everything now is only hiring for managers or assistant managers at best and I'm just not qualified for anything and everything I apply for I either never hear back from or I'm told (at the shop) that they do not want my resume, please leave if you're not buying anything.

Fuck job hunting.

Rizzo:
I spent about 4 hours revamping my CV using this tool; https://www2.careers.govt.nz/cv_4_me.html?&no_cache=1
It's an NZ one but I think it's pretty global in terms of relevance etc. Once I'd done that I got 3 interviews for 4 applications.
I reckon having a dynamite CV is the most important thing after your actual skills.

Also totally agree with the previous posters re: volunteer work. Looks amazing on CVs and shows you're not a total cunt and will work hard regardless of pay.

And to disagree with previous posters, don't accept the first job you're offered unless its actually a good deal. If you've applied at Subway and your local university (or whatever) and Subway calls up to offer you the job, spend a few days thinking about it and calling the university. Cause it's totally ok to call places and say someone else has made an offer. People often say this is bad form but frankly, fuck them, jobs are there to provide you with money not vice versa. Unless you're in the states. Then you're fucked and should take anything that is offered. But if you're in Canada or anywhere else be picky.

Post your CV here and people will most likely offer constructive criticism.

ALSO. Make sure you have an awesome cover letter.

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