Job hunting and career changes are DISCOURAGING

[King Sun]

I work for one of the biggest insurance companies and I can give truth to this and they don't even hide it. For instance the external site wants the potential employee to have all these certs and 4 yrs exp where as in the internal posting just states "technical expertise"

 

[PrnzHakeem]

Spoiler

naus lost

Guerrilla Union is hiring. You should hit them up.

 

[DStyles]

Guerrilla Union is hiring. You should hit them up.

First thing that came to mind was G-Unit



Do they ask for experience?

 

[mortuus est]

Share the knowledge on good networking techniques brehs.

Get to know people in your field, know whos who and keep your cards close, its good to know what their into as wel. try be out there.

 

[PrnzHakeem]

First thing that came to mind was G-Unit

Do they ask for experience?

I dont know. You'd have to ask he's the owner.

You lost.

 

[Tru]

Thanks for the advice but I'm a student. This upcoming semester is my last one. Those manual labor jobs I can only keep for so long. That first carpentry job was after high school. I took a year off from school. The other construction jobs have been during weekends here and there and in the summer.

Some of these retails stores don't even value that

Thanks nonetheless

Since you're in school try on campus jobs, most schools have a career center and can guide u on what to do. Depending on what type of school u go to usually they have resources that are paid for out of your tuition. Take advantage of that sh%t. You are paying for it. Talk to your advisor or any professors. Unless it's an online college there should be resources for u available.

 

[radio rahiem]

I work for one of the biggest insurance companies and I can give truth to this and they don't even hide it. For instance the external site wants the potential employee to have all these certs and 4 yrs exp where as in the internal posting just states "technical expertise"

disgusting

 

[krexzen]

I work for one of the biggest insurance companies and I can give truth to this and they don't even hide it. For instance the external site wants the potential employee to have all these certs and 4 yrs exp where as in the internal posting just states "technical expertise"

Before I got my start I used to be intimidated by the long list qualifications and requirements. Now I just . The only thing I'm confused about is the reasoning behind it. Are they trying to redefine the market value of certain positions? Do they already have the desired candidate internally and are just trumping up the external job posting as a formality? Or is it some clueless HR rep who doesn't have clue what the job really entails?


I just don't know. At face value it seems these companies are fishing for the perfect sucker with the low amount of money that they are offering.

 

[King Sun]

Before I got my start I used to be intimidated by the long list qualifications and requirements. Now I just . The only thing I'm confused about is the reasoning behind it. Are they trying to redefine the market value of certain positions? Do they already have the desired candidate internally and are just trumping up the external job posting as a formality? Or is it some clueless HR rep who doesn't have clue what the job really entails?


I just don't know. At face value it seems these companies are fishing for the perfect sucker with the low amount of money that they are offering.

Trust me at this company most mid-high level positions are for internals only unless someone referred you. Other than that you better off going to customer service for a year then apply

 

[krexzen]

Trust me at this company most mid-high level positions are for internals only unless someone referred you. Other than that you better off going to customer service for a year then apply

Why do they even make an external posting? Is it just for a pool of applicants in case of an emergency?

 

[King Sun]

Why do they even make an external posting? Is it just for a pool of applicants in case of an emergency?

Pretty much

 

[Schmoove]

I'm trying to work in Television breh and its stressful. Keep your head up though and don't stop contacting the leads you already have you'll never know where they might take you

DON'T DO IT. DO ****___NOT___*** DO IT.

All the media companies are "readjusting" peoples job titles and responsibilities to low-ball people even worse. It's bad enough to work for so little pay. They're only trying to make it worse.

I'm telling you. You get a job in TV and because your main skills can't translate into anything else by TV work.

 

[Chrishaune]

Most times they already have in mind who they're going to hire for a job. Posting it is just a requirement to keep the government off their ***.

 

[Schmoove]

Why do they even make an external posting? Is it just for a pool of applicants in case of an emergency?

Legal purposes. It's against Equal Opportunity laws to not publicly post job openings.

What NEEDS to happen is for the EEO laws to be more strict.

But Slowbama ain't trying to help REAL people.

 

[MurderSheWrote]

Blame yourselves.

Most of you ninjas on this site are NOT articulate.

Most of you cannot write a grammatically correct sentence. I'm pretty sure this is an issue with your speech as well.

You may think it's "cool" and it "shouldn't matter" but it DOES matter. No company wants an inarticulate idiot being the face of their company. No, sir, you belong in the fields making $7.50 an hour for your unskilled labor and lack of education.

Stay in school.
Read a book.
Educate yourselves on sentence structure and grammar.
Stop walking around looking and talking like thugs and first graders.
Go to college or trade school.
Study something practical and employable like engineering.

Those of us who took education SERIOUSLY and studied something that makes us EMPLOYABLE aren't hurting for jobs.