Do you have a criminal record, drug use or anything that would make a business not like you?
I’m the same way.
For real, nobodies hiring. Right now the unemployment rate has already reached 5% and its rising.
All I can say is good luck.
And check Craigslist everyday.
Alexaxas, you still there?
No record, no drug use in years (nothing major, and never got busted).
I’m in the same boat. I’ve been out of work since January, I’ve been on countless interviews and nothing. I’m a professional with an advanced degree so I thought I would have an edge but nope. And dots Craigslist is a good idea, I’ve been on Monster and CareerBuilder for months but have not checked Craigslist. Good luck to everyone!
When I say ‘months’, at this point I guess I mean 20 months. I finished my degree in the summer of 06, and moved 600 miles away on the strength of a job offer that disappeared the weekend I moved in. I’ve only managed to get maybe 8 companies to even give me an interview in person since then.
Really? What is your field? My problem is I get the interviews but I don’t get offered the job. It’s so frustrating because I get my hopes up when I get an interview but nothing ever comes of it. A company just interviewed me and then told me they could not hire for four weeks. Then why bring me in now? Ugh.
Well, defining my field is kind of tough. My degree is in ‘Applied Physics’ which is kind of a hybrid of engineering and physics, not unlike an ‘Engineering Physics’ degree. Most of my experience is in optics, electronics, and (not surprisingly) photonics. But, I also spent a couple years as a designer and draftsman for a furniture company between high school and college. In addition, my father raised me to be a welder and a metalworker, so my skills are really all over the place.
So you have a pretty broad skillset, wow. I don’t know much about your field. My friend’s husband has a similar degree and ended up working for Circuit City in the store, then ended up moving up into a business analyst position. Maybe you could apply to electronics retailers like that.
Have you tried slimming your resume down? I have had to play some skills and experience down just so I don’t seem like a jack of all trades, master of none. Without seeing your resume I’m only guessing:)
I actually have a few different versions of my resume that I send out depending on the job. The consultant I worked with gave me hand with that for the exact reason you describe. I think I’ve dropped off an application at just about every store I’ve been in that had a ‘Now Hiring’ sign.
I wonder if my degree itself is the problem. Maybe the lower level jobs, like retail and food service, figure that they’d be wasting their time on ’someone who’s just going to find a better job in a month’ without being able to see that that doesn’t seem likely anymore. And the more technical jobs just see that I have a bachelors instead of a masters or a doctorate.
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I actually have a few different versions of my resume that I send out depending on the job. The consultant I worked with gave me hand with that for the exact reason you describe. I think I’ve dropped off an application at just about every store I’ve been in that had a ‘Now Hiring’ sign.
I wonder if my degree itself is the problem. Maybe the lower level jobs, like retail and food service, figure that they’d be wasting their time on ’someone who’s just going to find a better job in a month’ without being able to see that that doesn’t seem likely anymore. And the more technical jobs just see that I have a bachelors instead of a masters or a doctorate.
What country may I ask, are you looking in?
Have you tried government jobs, civil service? The government loves to hire new grads without experience. I have worked with a few in engineering with your degree.
Good old USA, North Carolina specifically.
I actually had an interview a few months ago at a DoD site in Jersey, but I didn’t get that job. A college buddy (with an actual ‘Engineering Physics’ masters) who works there got me the interview, which I really appreciated. He wanted me to work in his cubicle group, but his boss and his boss’s boss were less enthralled.
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Good old USA, North Carolina specifically.I actually had an interview a few months ago at a DoD site in Jersey, but I didn’t get that job. A college buddy (with an actual ‘Engineering Physics’ masters) who works there got me the interview, which I really appreciated. He wanted me to work in his cubicle group, but his boss and his boss’s boss were less enthralled.
If at first you don’t succeed try, try, try, again. Sometimes I have not gotten the job I wanted the first time. If you keep trying your persistance may impress on someone that you are serious, determined, and really need a job:) Especially with the government jobs come and go all the time. Are you interested in relocating?
I hope you understand I meant keep trying with the same company:)
Well, I’d rather work for the local company that almost hired me, and the idiotically naive part of my brain thinks that they’d really like to hire me and aren’t feeding me a line of **** (Since my contact there actually called me even after I’d gotten the form ’sorry, no job’ letter and claimed I’d get another call as soon as they got the green light to hire again).
But… at this point, yeah, I’d relocate. If someone offered me a real job on Mars, I don’t see how I could turn it down, now. Well, particularly if its on Mars, but even if it was somewhere in the dead end, backwoods of the country.
The caveat is I’d rather not move somewhere where I don’t know anybody, because I’m extremely slow to make friends and I have strict personal rules about maintaining proper business relationships with my coworkers.
Aren’t you in the dead end, backwoods of the country:)? I’m sorry I use to live in North Carolina.
Are you sure your not trying too hard? Too wordy, too confident (borderline arrogant) there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Don’t take offense I’m trying to help:) Have you checked out careerbuilder.com? Craigslist? Check back with the same companies because req’s open and close all the time and like I said if you are nice and polite and keep coming back, sometimes it will get your foot in the door.
Yeah, this is pretty backwoods I know, but I was more referring to places like Missouri, where I was convinced not to take a free ride to school by the incredible, intolerable lack of civilization. They seriously had a Walmart, the locals thought it was great fun to go hang out and watch the tvs there, and a Waffle House and not a single place to get a shot of espresso.
Almost all of my job leads come through careerbuilder, with a few coming from monster or hotjobs. I’ve looked at craiglist but I’ve never seen anything I was qualified for there.
I don’t doubt that I come off as arrogant outside of interviews, but all the indications I have seem to say I interview quite well.
It is a tough market…. It sounds like you are doing all the right things:) If money get’s tight you might need to actually take a job where the department of defense is booming. Have you looked into Point Mugu, Naval Air Warfare Center, California?
Are you interested in teaching?
I TA’d a few lab classes for my advisor and covered a friend in his classes a couple of times, but I’m not actually very good at teaching. Plus, children scare me (and I scare them).
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I can but i live sooooo far where you are.
I hope you don’t mind I invited others to help. I’m getting tired:) I think it is just a matter of time before you get a job:)
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I TA’d a few lab classes for my advisor and covered a friend in his classes a couple of times, but I’m not actually very good at teaching. Plus, children scare me (and I scare them).
Try teaching adults (college, universities….). You might take the first job offered and keep searching for the better paying one you want. Hang in there and keep me informed:) Goodnight:)
Well, yeah, of course its just a matter of time. I try to stay optimistic about it (even if its against my nature), I just hope the time comes up before my lease does. Anyway, I would take the first job offered, any money is better than nothing; I haven’t even had the opportunity to decline one.
Because of the perverse hold irony seems to have over my life, one of the common jokes among my friends is that the day after I finally land a job, I’ll have half a dozen more offers. The alternate version is for the offers to hit my inbox the day after the ISP cuts my service off. (Actually, seems like most of their jokes are at my expense. Hmm…)
perhaps you could pick a company you would really want to work for
and do some intensive research on the net and contact then with a hot idea
that you have.Get an interview with some one on the inside.show them your idea
tell them you would like to work for them.
It’s a tough one for sure. Here are some tips. -You have too much on your resume for a crappy job and they feel you might quit later. -You may be getting a bad reference that you don’t know about. -It’s a depressed time and your resume is getting buried. Try this link http://www.wowjobs.com/
Keep in mind that the law of probability…throw enough crap against a wall something will stick. Best of lucky and don’t forget self employment if possible.
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