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We walked in and asked to speak to someone in PERSONNEL!
I was around before they came up with "Human Resources".
Oh, how I miss the days of being able to walk around with copies of my resume and pop into any place, talk to the folks who do the hiring, and get my foot in the door. The same days of being able to walk through a mall, hit every store with a simple "Are you guys hiring?" "Yeah, here's the app, you can fill it out while you're here if you want", and come away having applied for like 30 jobs in one fell swoop, getting call backs for all of them.
Now it's, "A job? Sure, apply online. Oh, you want to talk to the people who'd actually be hiring you? No, no, no, no, silly one. You have to go online and if your application makes it through the practically arbitrary filters applied just to reduce the number of incoming apps and the scoring of the assessments that almost always have more than one answer appropriate for an ideal candidate for the position, someone might look at it and if they like what they see, you'll be contacted." Hooray for coming away with nothing but time to spend on the internet that leads to not being contacted ever!
But seriously, it was lovely, wasn't it?
Back then, I'd get hired on the spot most of the time just from interacting with the people doing the hiring while I was there filling out the app. These days, you can't even get a job washing dishes at a place like Chili's without going through all of that online skinamerink and that's if positions are even open as opposed to being filled with the friends/relatives of people already working there.
Day laborers and illegals are more likely to get hired off the street than anyone I know now lol Then people wonder why so many start doing things under the table, trying to skirt around the system.
Anyway, I recently discovered that either Home Goods or Marshalls still takes paper applications. I told my friend about it because she's looking for a job. She's had no luck at all with the online process. It's night and day compared to when she could do things in person. We'll see what happens! I don't know if it's all of them though or just the ones near me, so she said she'll check.
Oh, how I miss the days of being able to walk around with copies of my resume and pop into any place, talk to the folks who do the hiring, and get my foot in the door. The same days of being able to walk through a mall, hit every store with a simple "Are you guys hiring?" "Yeah, here's the app, you can fill it out while you're here if you want", and come away having applied for like 30 jobs in one fell swoop, getting call backs for all of them.
Now it's, "A job? Sure, apply online. Oh, you want to talk to the people who'd actually be hiring you? No, no, no, no, silly one. You have to go online and if your application makes it through the practically arbitrary filters applied just to reduce the number of incoming apps and the scoring of the assessments that almost always have more than one answer appropriate for an ideal candidate for the position, someone might look at it and if they like what they see, you'll be contacted." Hooray for coming away with nothing but time to spend on the internet that leads to not being contacted ever!
But seriously, it was lovely, wasn't it?
Back then, I'd get hired on the spot most of the time just from interacting with the people doing the hiring while I was there filling out the app. These days, you can't even get a job washing dishes at a place like Chili's without going through all of that online skinamerink and that's if positions are even open as opposed to being filled with the friends/relatives of people already working there.
Day laborers and illegals are more likely to get hired off the street than anyone I know now lol Then people wonder why so many start doing things under the table, trying to skirt around the system.
Anyway, I recently discovered that either Home Goods or Marshalls still takes paper applications. I told my friend about it because she's looking for a job. She's had no luck at all with the online process. It's night and day compared to when she could do things in person. We'll see what happens! I don't know if it's all of them though or just the ones near me, so she said she'll check.
This is why I was advised to overlook online applications and just go to a temping agency. This is where most jobs are placed today anyways.
Last edited by knowledgeiskey; 11-14-2014 at 12:00 PM..
Don't forget merchants that have online applications but are only allowed to be accessed in the store. Publix, for example, uses online applications but you can only fill them out on their in-store computers. I don't know why, or if it's or not in the advantage of the job seeker.
What are you? An alien?
Networking was the same then as it is now but, jobs were advertised in printed publications instead of online and there were job fairs, just like today.
Words outta my mouth. Amazing how little people know these days.
IBM in a Boca had a large lobby with a stack of applications on a table. You filled the app out, threw in your resume if you had one, and slipped it into a large locked mailbox-type container.
Then they called you. Or not.
Or you called first and asked for HR, or personnel or whatever they called it. Then they would tell you to fill out the app.
Doesn't it go both ways? From what I've researched from archives that were never uploaded into an electronic format, humans used to have to drive 6 miles, rain or shine, just to go to a movie rental building just to be told that all three of the copies of the movie they wanted were checked out, and they actually had to sit there and do nothing while doing something called rewinding the cassette.
You don't get out much, do you?
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Originally Posted by Lauriedeee
I can't speak for non humans. Perhaps they did it differently.
Here's how my cat got his job: He showed up in my backyard and looked cute and pathetic at the same time.
I wonder how that would work for humans?
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Originally Posted by kokonutty
My first job, I chiseled my name and cave number into a rock and left it at the entrance to the quarry.
Huh, you must be older than I am; I used papyrus.
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