Your family and your friends are fed up with your complaining about there being no work in HRM. There is work here! You haven’t been trying hard enough to get it. Ok, so you have applied to tons of places related to your degree. You get no calls or emails back and automatically assume the position wasn’t really available and that’s it’s just ’cause employers are required to post jobs externally even though they’re likely filling them internally. Did it ever occur to you that it’s YOU they don’t want to hire? Maybe your resume and cover letter have something to do with it? I haven’t viewed them, but to have NO ONE contact you at all, not even for a prescreening, I’m thinking the problem is you. “I have a degree, I’ve been volunteering in my field to get experience though” you’ll say. So what makes you more qualified than anyone else? Now you’re threatening to move to a larger city ’cause there’s actually jobs there. Well, I have a hunch that you won’t be getting any work there either. Fix up your resume and cover letter and being an entitled bitch and stop blaming Halifax. —Sis who’s tired of your whining
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.
“family and your friends are ‘fed up’ with your complaining” – Is that why his dinner parties are never reciprocated?
Bad Hugo, bad bad.
Tell the person to market themselves to places they are qualified to be employed and are interested in working with that organization. Most jobs are unadvertised or gained by networking as the best people are one step ahead of the herd……promote yourself first!
Employment agencies. Temp agencies, etc… are pretty much the easiest route to take, to be honest. They do the work for you and it’s pretty darn easy to start working right away.
OP, awesome bitch. Some people just don’t know how to market themselves. They pay all that money for a university degree and then think job offers will fall into their hands (not all are as lucky as I was). Employees look for people that are above the generic herd of degree-holding cattle, people that can offer more than run-of-the-mill Joes. Why doesn’t the person consider moving to find work? Others do, and become very successful and gain valuable experience.
of course there are no jobs here, for a rocket scientist or some other techie shit. but, if you jusy wanna hoof it thru anything, holy fuck, there are tons of jobs. o.p., seriously, no shit, i can go out to today, apply for, and get, no less than 10 or 12 jobs, in all different fields. right from lowly server, to legal practice. not a full lawyer, but a paralegal. cops, no problem, even military cops, but the age thing fucks me there.
a lot of the fuzz would love to have me as a partner, because i’m a no shit dude. so look around, there a plenty jobs for a go getter.
Everyone needs to stop doing the “popular” degrees and start doing something where there is demand. Everyone who graduated with me is employed, and so are the other 2 classes that graduated the years after.
PS: this person’s resume probably sucks. 5 or 6 people looked over mine and I landed the first AMAZING job I applied for (not to mention I spent the greater part of 2 full work days getting it all perfect).
LS, can I employ you as a comma filler? I feel as though my sentences have been lacking in them as of late and you would be a more than suitable candidate given your shit ton of experience in generating commas like a motherfucker. I also believe paralegals -might- need to have a more-than-tenuous grasp on the english language in order to be hired.
I really hope this isn’t my sister.
(rant begin)
oh and i know what that guy/girl is going through job searching, it is hard to find jobs no matter how much you people in jobs seem to think, no matter how much you change your cover letter and your resume if theres no jobs in that field your screwed, and sure go and find another job in another field but hell thats a huge waste of 4 years of training when yes you can find a job in another city.
Fucking crazy backwards people, think more about how hard some things really are. (rant over).
ben, old cock, i write to confuse and difuse. my everyday life is my secret, known to only a chosen few. like any super hero type dude, that is a has to be. yes, when do you want me to start filling in your commsa for you. minimum charge is ten for a buck. as to paralegal, i said i could be, not that i wanted to be one. also those days of law school, are far, far behind me. i am uite content to do my own thing, on my own time, when i get a chance to.
sometimes, i have to opt out of things, due to prior commitments and shit. so there you have parts of the sucks story, if i told you all of it, then i would have to dispose of the body.
Life Sucks….a legend in his own mind…..the “Dos Equis Man ” of Spryfield, beats his wife, drinks A K full strength, rides his ATV through others property…a mans man !
A Steven Seagal for HFX…..you RAWK
meh… I disagree with this bitch… when I graduated I looked for a job in Halifax in my field for 5 months. I met some nice people but no offers. The same month I broadened my search to all the maritimes I got 2 awesome job offers. It’s an over-saturated market because of all the universities.
I know that our department doesn’t get many resumes – people aren’t applying. Of the ones that do — the resumes are not always great. Not just the formatting, but long period of unemployment but no volunteer or education experience during this time to fill the gaps?