Are you haveing problems finding a Job?

[Jack_www]

For the past 6 months I have on search for a new job. In that time I have been 8 interviews. And so far I have not gotten a job. I hear reports every day on the news how both the economy and job markets are improving, but I still have not found a job.

Let me just go over some of the things that have happened to me when I applied for a job.

About when I first went looking for a job, I interviewed for a IT job at a hospital, which had very good pay and benfits. The guy that was leaving that job was the one doing the interviewing and hiring. I found out latter that I never had a chance at getting the job because the guy hired his friend, and it appears that he was just interviewing people for show so that he would not get in trouble or break any of the hospital rules.

Then I interview for anther position at the same place, were I would have to go to the rooms of patients that did not fill out their paper work because they were rushed into the hospital because they need treament right away. The person I interviewed with told me that if I did realy well on the customer service test that they were giving all the people they interviewed that I would be quote "at the top of the list." Then I ask her about a week latter if she had made a picked someone, and she said she had to wait for "anther applicant." Then a few days after that she said she got someone else.

An a recent job I interviewed for, I recieved a job offer, but they only wanted to give me 14,000 dollars a year to start because they would have to train me, and it is small office. I turned that stupid offer down. I cant live off of 14,000 a year.

I am not going to give up, but sometimes I wonder if I will ever find a job ever. So what kind of crap have you had to go through while you have been looking for a job?

[Jack_www]

Any one out there going through the same thing? I just dont know what to do sometimes, it gets very dissapointing to go so long with out a job.

[Pekka]

I don't know.. have you considered the possibility, that you just might be a loser, and it's only going to get worse?

Just kidding . I think this doesn't count, but once I searched for a job, and I was being active about it but couldn't get any job for 4 months.. but then I got one.
My dad was unemployed once for over a year...

Must be frustrating, all I can say is keep on fighting and something good will come to your way... Maybe you should recheck your CV? Maybe there's something wrong with it... maybe try to work on interview situations, so you could give your 100% best performance? You might have something that turns off the employers that you just don't see. Or you just have this phace.. I hope you get something soon.

[chequita guevara]

About two months after I was laid on in 2000' a woman called me up and started upbraiding me for the employment gaps in my resume. It was 9 in the morning and her call woke me up. She just kept acting like I was some sort of criminal because I hadn't kept a job long and I had several month gaps (one period where I was taking care of my grandmother while my grandfather was in the hospital). Finally she was like, we'll I'll see whether they'll consider you with your history. I'm too tired to think, so I'm like, fine. She calls back later and basically gives me an attitude like its all my fault that they can't hire me, and I'm like, if you are any indication of what your company is like, you did me a favor.

I had another job that told me I probably had the position, but I needed to interview with this one person, who was never available.

The worst is being told that you've 99% got the job, but then call you back to tel you the position's been cancelled.

[MrFun]

I'm happy with my part-time internship that waived my tuition and pays me a modest living wage.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Pekka
I don't know.. have you considered the possibility, that you just might be a loser, and it's only going to get worse?

Just kidding . I think this doesn't count, but once I searched for a job, and I was being active about it but couldn't get any job for 4 months.. but then I got one.
My dad was unemployed once for over a year...

Must be frustrating, all I can say is keep on fighting and something good will come to your way... Maybe you should recheck your CV? Maybe there's something wrong with it... maybe try to work on interview situations, so you could give your 100% best performance? You might have something that turns off the employers that you just don't see. Or you just have this phace.. I hope you get something soon.

I dont think it is my resume. I think it is the fact I dont have a lot of experience, and I am still going to school.
I think it has more to do with how I am interviewing. One job oppertunity I blew mainly because of how I did on the interview I believe.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
About two months after I was laid on in 2000' a woman called me up and started upbraiding me for the employment gaps in my resume. It was 9 in the morning and her call woke me up. She just kept acting like I was some sort of criminal because I hadn't kept a job long and I had several month gaps (one period where I was taking care of my grandmother while my grandfather was in the hospital). Finally she was like, we'll I'll see whether they'll consider you with your history. I'm too tired to think, so I'm like, fine. She calls back later and basically gives me an attitude like its all my fault that they can't hire me, and I'm like, if you are any indication of what your company is like, you did me a favor.

I had another job that told me I probably had the position, but I needed to interview with this one person, who was never available.

The worst is being told that you've 99% got the job, but then call you back to tel you the position's been cancelled.

Well anther job I have already interviewed for, I did not hear back from them for weeks. Just the other day I finally got a hold of them and they told me nothing has been done because they put the job on hold. So I dont know about that job. I wish I could get it because it has great pay and they pay for tution up to $3,000 dollars a year. That would really help me.

[chequita guevara]

The number one way to get jobs is through other people. You need to network.

[Japher]

it doesn't help that you don't want to move and are still in school...

[Shogun Gunner]

Jack_www: What area do you live in? Pay does change based on region of the country... But, $14K sounds extremely low for any area.

Have you used headhunters or placement agencies? There are lot of them in the DC area and I have several friends able to get jobs through these avenues.

[East Street Trader]

There is a big element of luck in interviews.

Just keep trying.

If you don't do it already, try to find out a bit about the companies you apply to before you attend. See if there is anything about them on the net. Get hold of anything they put out about themselves. See how they advertise their products.

If you can get a feel for what makes them tick or what they aspire to it will often give you insight into what they are looking for in their employees.

Be confident when you apply but afterwards take no notice whatsoever of encouraging noises. No one likes to disappoint so I am afraid almost everyone interviewed gets those encouraging noises. While waiting to hear the result of one interview busy yourself with trying to land the next.

If this is your first job lower your sights. Lots of people do not make a living wage when they first start work. Getting a full year of employment under your belt - any form of employment at all - is a profit to you in itself. It shows you have what it takes just to hold a job down. And there are a bunch of skills which you can only really pick up once you start to work.

I don't know how you can make up the balance you need to live on - parents most often help out but sometimes there are supplementary state benefits which help. Otherwise just try to live as cheaply as you can.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Japher
it doesn't help that you don't want to move and are still in school...

I am trying to find a job to pay for school and so that I can live. I only have A.S degree, I can leave school now. There is nothing I can do about that.

[Lord Merciless]

What are you studying?

[aaglo]

During my life I've been unemployed for total of 3 months in two separate time periods. And I must say that those months were the most boring months of my life.

I wouldn't suggest unemployment to my worst enemy well, maybe to the worst enemy, but not for the regular enemies

Unemployment sucks like a vacuum cleaner.

[loinburger]

Don't tell them that you're looking for a job that will pay for school -- you have to convince them that you're going to be at their job for five or ten years or so. That was the biggest mistake I made when I went interviewing after graduation -- I'd ask about tuition reimbursement at the interview (for graduate school), and that always set off alarm bells in the interviewer's head, since they typically assumed that I'd dump their lousy job and move on to bigger and better things at my first opportunity.