I would like to apply for the "" position you have available

[kerrywins]

I don't know how many of those I've written.....too many. Its been hard. Days like today, when I'm off sittin at home, get so depressed applying for jobs. Got laid of in July 03. Been working at a retail store since September. Keep hearing about all these great jobs in the IT industry, I wish everyone would hurry up and get hired....so they can finally make room for me.
Its hard...I don't blame anyone...but I've actually started gettin mad and envious and anyone I see in the store that looks "well off"....especially "older white guys".
I know its not right, but I feel so danged hopless. I feel so ashamed I'm actually judging people and feeling anger at total strangers....
:(

But hope keeps me going....

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. Now, more than ever, it's all about "networking"...

...it comes down to you know someone who knows someone who knows someone else who is connected to someone who has a job opening.

I've worked in HR as part of my career (a mercifully BRIEF part). Hiring managers are LAZY in good times and in bad. They want the perfect candidate to "show up." HR drops resumes on the desks of the hiring managers and they NEVER review them. They just yell at HR and say "when are you going to find a CANDIDATE for me? When are you going to set up INTERVIEWS?" And HR just keeps stacking resumes that will never get reviewed on the hiring manager's desk. It's what the average HR drone is paid to do. I have known HR people who are aggressive and creative and passionate and they are definitely in a very, very small percentage of the total HR population. Most are just going through the motions, taking up space, collecting a paycheck as a reward for minimal effort.

There's always going to be "fair" and "unfair" and you'll always see people who are well off, and maybe they didn't work for it at all (have you checked out our current president?)...

:-)

I've recently gotten into a couple of organizations and what happens, slowly, is that people begin to know you. Then they begin to like you. Then they begin to TRUST you, and when they DO, someone asks them "DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE?"...

...and they answer YES...

...and YOUR phone rings...

...and you're making "I JUST GOT A GREAT JOB" posts on DU.

Hang in there. It will happen for you, and it will have nothing to do with people who are better or worse off than you. It will have everything to do with you.

:toast: