Top Items I Hate About Looking For A Job….

Top Items I Hate About Looking For A Job….

 

 

 

1. Salary History

I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t remember my salary history for the past 15 years.  Sure I can estimate, but give accurate amounts…no way!

 

1. Salary Request

I always hate this one.  Go too high and they write you off, go to low, and you wind up underpaid for the length of your tenure.  What is the right salary request?

 

1. Employment Dates

Again, I can’t remember all the exact dates I went from job to job.  I stayed at the same company for 15 years and was promoted to various positions.  There is no way I can remember the exact dates I was in different positions!

 

1. Previous Supervisor Contact Information

This one is crappy too!  Quite frankly all my previous supervisors aren’t there anymore, so I have no idea on how to get a hold of them now.  When you worked for a company who laid people off 3 quarters of the year to make the numbers, you just don’t keep in contact. 

 

1. Personality Tests

I have a great personality, but there are plenty of companies out there marketing their product to say differently.  Whatever happened to proven experience???  You can’t even get in the door until you pass the test that says if you would be a good fit or not.  How does one test say all that??? 

 

1. Credit Checks

Can’t say enough about this one.  Just because someone has hit upon some hard times, does that make them a loser for life???   Apparently so if the company wants to do credit checks before they will even interview you.

 

1. Previous Addresses/ Employer Addresses

Here is another one that is difficult to remember.  If you haven’t lived in the same place for 7 years, get your previous addresses together now!  How can I remember?   And the employer address is another one that is not that easy to remember.  Thank God for Google!!!

 

1. Lengthy Application Process

Wow could the employment world benefit from one application that can be submitted for all.  There are plenty of companies out there who have their own application process and they are long!!!  Why submit a resume if you end up having to type all the information over again in their own employment application process???  What is the resume for again???  And I just love those systems who parse out the info from your resume.  Who quality checked those apps?????? 

 

OK done venting now!  But if you are looking for a job like me, keep this info in mind.  Save yourself some time and create a cheat sheet with the above info.  And good luck keeping your sanity through this process!!!

 

Iz

My Guilty Pleasure and Escape…True Beauty!!!!

True Beauty

 

So my favorite guilty pleasure was on again and I was somewhat worried about my man Joel.   I am not sure it he will win, but I certainly don’t want to see him get kicked off without a fighting chance.  Really this week the judges were so off.  Picking Billy as the winner of the challenge was just not what I thought would happen.  I had to agree with Ashton’s mom and believe that Joel did the best job.  And seriously did he really fail the stupid test?  He was just telling it like it is, which is why I really like him.  He isn’t afraid to tell it like it is.  Laura certainly needed to go, and I was surprised that she lasted this long.  She is so superficial and conceited that I have to wonder just what is inside her???  Not much from what I saw. 

 

Of course I know that it is TV and they exaggerate everything for more dramatic effect, but she really didn’t shine in my book.  Just for stringing Billy along was enough for me to kick her off.  When she admitted that she would throw him under the bus, it was a no brainier that she needed to go.   And the planted designer was an idiot.  Touching Joel’s butt and Laura’s was out of line even for this show.  The fact that Joel didn’t kick his arse was enough for me to declare him the winner.  Hell, I would have slapped him for doing that to me.  IT was inappropriate and the producers shouldn’t have allowed it. 

 

I still think the show needs some more meat and less corniness, especially with the judges’ expressions about things that just aren’t that big of a deal.  And I am kind of over the question to the departing beauty:  “Do you think you are a true beauty?  Well take a look.”   Damn that adds to the corny factor.  This show has the capability to be totally brilliant, but it really needs some more substance.  I would like to see it picked up again but improved.  And seriously the judges need some work.  Their facial expressions drive me crazy. 

 

Anyway, my man Joel is safe for another week, so I am happy for the moment.  And the Bachelor previews from last week lied with their bachelorette making a mistake scene.  It appears that the scene is for next week which is pure crap in advertising if you ask me.  I can’t believe they hooked me into watching this week.  It is so lame having the dates and hoping the girls open up so he knows that they care, only to F over one of them.  What a crock of crap that is.  And I don’t know that happens on the overnight dates, but holy crap that isn’t right.  Anyway, that was my entertainment for the week, now I continue my quest for employment.  Hope your week is fabulous!!

 

Iz

Weekend in the city…

So I went to the city with the kids for the weekend, we stayed at my parents house.  My mother wants me to move in with them until I get back on my feet.  She feels that since my husband has chosen a job that requires him to move to wherever he works, he in effect has abandoned us in his neck of the woods.  I can’t help but agree with her.  I didn’t choose to live in the middle of nowhere, he wanted us to move here and live here.  Now he is gone working in another state until November, when he will move again to somewhere else to work.  He is a construction forman for a commercial builder.   And he isn’t here for me or the kids.  He has talked about moving back here, but the money isn’t here and there aren’t any jobs.  I get that, as I have been searching in this area for six months now.  But I also get that we could move to a city, where I could become gainfully employed and he could be looking for something and we would be much better off financially then we are now.  Now, we are poor.  Very poor.  It is a new experience for me, and one I will never forget as I dig my way out of it. 

 

But, I fear the employment landscape has changed so much in the past years, that I will have much difficulty finding a position that I am qualified for.  I have professional business and technical skills.  And I have applied for almost 25+ jobs in the last two weeks.  Two have sent me additional information about their employment process, and I have to wonder just how difficult is it to get a job these days.  Both have required tests regarding your personality.  Both are requesting background checks and the much dreaded credit check.  The credit check could tank me immediately.  Which totally sucks considering three years ago it was stellar and had been for 20 years.  The past year alone has ruined my credit and now I fear it will hurt my chances of getting a good job.  Which just doesn’t seem right.  The whole reason I so desperately need a job right now is to get me out of this credit crisis.  And the reason that I may not find a great job is the credit card companies.  These banks who have mismanaged them selves to the point that the government (My tax dollars) have to step in to save them are the reason I can’t even get hired with bad credit.  Bad credit that they intensified with their multiple and exorbitant fees.  Crooks are costing me work.  They should be left to their own demise.   I do not agree with bailing them out if I can’t get a bail out myself.  WTF??? 

 

This country is so F’d up right now, I fear for the future of my children.  What will be left for them?  It is just so sick and wrong.  What happened to America?  I can’t imagine my ancestors who came here for a better life from Sweden could have ever thought that these days would come to pass.  The corruption and greed of a few have destroyed many.   The whole country needs an overhaul!!!   I certainly hope that Obama can work some magic and get us out of this mess.  Is it really too much to ask for…a job so I can pay my bills and feed my family???  What has this world come to?  Sad isn’t it….

 

Iz