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A few years ago employers hadn't hired anyone since the good times, and couldn't understand why anyone could spend over a year looking for a job. Lately there are so many such candidates you don't get that question as much. Getting additional education may help. I don't know if getting a menial job looks any better than having none.
They want to know how long you have been out of work, and seeking and/or sitting on your butt taking your time ... if you're unemployed too long, the next question will be how have you been spending your free time ? lol
Throw a little of your soft heart in there, tell them you've been doing some volunteer work with local organizations. I have always done volunteer work, and enjoy talking about it. I see people light up and show fascination when you talk about this- not sure why ... I actually had one person say to me, "why would you do that, you don't get paid for it". LMAO !!! Idiot- that's why they call it, "volunteer work".
They want to know how long you have been out of work, and seeking and/or sitting on your butt taking your time ... if you're unemployed too long, the next question will be how have you been spending your free time ? lol
Throw a little of your soft heart in there, tell them you've been doing some volunteer work with local organizations. I have always done volunteer work, and enjoy talking about it. I see people light up and show fascination when you talk about this- not sure why ... I actually had one person say to me, "why would you do that, you don't get paid for it". LMAO !!! Idiot- that's why they call it, "volunteer work".
Cause your tired of the looking at the walls of your house and want to do something different that look for work.... That would be my sarcastic answer...
...That's what is so reassuring about the life of a working person. You have absolute control over how long you are unemployed. That is why the unemployment system is modeled based on the absolute control that all working people have over maximun number of days that they will be unemployed.
...Which, really takes the stress out of job loss -the absoluteness of the duration of unemployment...which, incidentally, is always the absolute fault of the person losing the job.
Oh gawd.......
Who do you think is most likely to be hired? Someone who just collected unemployment checks and simply looked for a job? Or someone who volunteered at a shelter, took courses, worked odd jobs, or did something else productive with their extra free time?
Can you answer that one for me since the two of you are apparently so much smarter than everyone else here?
A few years ago employers hadn't hired anyone since the good times, and couldn't understand why anyone could spend over a year looking for a job. Lately there are so many such candidates you don't get that question as much. Getting additional education may help. I don't know if getting a menial job looks any better than having none.
You can be unemployed yet doing things all day, working on classes, goals, programs, volunteering.
I didn't say I knew better than others. I just said lots of people in the boat of being long term unemployed and everyone is assuming they will never work again.
Just because you don't have a job doesn't mean you are sitting home playing X-box and drinking beer.
I guess I better add handy man or consultant to my resume since it looks so much better than stay home parent.
You can be unemployed yet doing things all day, working on classes, goals, programs, volunteering.
I didn't say I knew better than others. I just said lots of people in the boat of being long term unemployed and everyone is assuming they will never work again.
Just because you don't have a job doesn't mean you are sitting home playing X-box and drinking beer.
I guess I better add handy man or consultant to my resume since it looks so much better than stay home parent.
Who said that? When did I say that? Stay at home parent is a job in and of itself.
If you listened to everyone with advice, well meaning or not, you'd never get out of bed unless you had a spotless record, no employment gaps, never got fired and so forth.
Each case/interview is different. Some employers DO pay well, some will be decent to you, some will not ask asinine questions or throw it over to HR psycho-babble in an interview.
Some will be actually cruel or stupid during interviews, some will ask you very dumb questions, illegal questions, and so on.
I believe in being prepared. Know yourself and your skills. Be confident but also realize you can't please every person at ever interview.
Well let me give you all a little example of what I was talking about. When I just started out in the workforce, I got a job and lost it. Then, I had to take time off from working at all for a legit reason. Rather than trying to explain my reasoning for taking so much time off, I filled up that gap with a farmhand position on a farm that my family owns. That way I wouldn't have to say that I was unemplohyed even though technicaly I was. Anything to fill the gap. Sell avon if you have to.
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