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ITT: I suck at job hunting, do you?
De_El:
I thought I was terrible at job searching, but I just got a job! Well not just, it was last week, but I haven't started yet so it's still fresh to me. It's pretty informal; I just pestered the owner at a local coffee shop a few times until he decided to give me the job. It wasn't like I just walked in and got hired; it's was somewhat competitive to get because it's both a good cafe and a major student hang-out spot. But I guess most of the other applicants just dropped off their resume and waited for a call, whereas I went back repeatedly to check in on the job. It's great because I know my customer service experience helped me get it, but I've never worked in food service before, and now that I've got this job I'll have experience that'll keep helping me for a long time to come.
HiFranc:
Congratulations DL.
negative creep:
Yesterday I sent out 10 applications. Today someone called me and now I have to go to an interview tomorrow. Sounds good?
The problem is, none of those applications were serious. I don't want any of those jobs. I tried as hard as I could (without it being to obvious; I have to show copies of my applications to the long arm of the government) to make myself look unemployable. I didn't even put my phone number on my CV, so they had to search for it in the phone book That can only mean that they must be really desperate.
KvP:
--- Quote from: Sam on 05 Jul 2010, 07:48 ---I am trying to get a work study job at the community college i'm attending in the Spring. I have no clue how to go about this, since I am not taking courses yet. I'm already registered with the school though...hm. I desire a job that is Homework Time, this'd be that. Also want to meet some cool ladies, and the community college in question of full of punk+artsy girls. Dream job???
--- End quote ---
Lab tech in the arts department. Best job I have ever had and probably ever will have. Try and trump up any experience you have with IT stuff, even if it's building your own computer or replacing a video card or anything like that. You won't actually be using those skills - more than likely they'll have full-time IT bros handling all that stuff - but it looks good anyway. KNOW HOW TO USE MICROSOFT OFFICE. Word + Excel + Powerpoint + Access. Knowledge of music or design software is also a big plus. But overall they're not going to look for dynamos, they're going to look for people who have a clear capacity to learn the programs that students will be asking about.
I'm coming up on graduation and I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do. Best case scenario right now is to get a job at Best Buy or some shit in the Geek Squad (by the time I graduate I will have had 3 years of lab tech experience, including 2 years of fairly rigorous client-side IT, and a year of security IT) but I'm not sure what the odds are of that happening. Even if they're hiring I'd probably have to go up against a whole boatload of CIS grads who can't get jobs in the real industry. And then I'd be doing volunteer stuff for awhile, and then maybe I'd go back to school, either for grad stuff or for management.
Patrick:
Yeah it's pretty great I love not having a job and having rent to pay :D
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