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we just want constructive criticism, we want to know what it takes to get hired for your employer, company, business, that way we can comeback some other day and know what qualifications, skills, type of experience we need in order to get hired next time
One thing I think you have to do is put yourself in the position of the one that is doing the hiring.
First you have to realize the one doing the hiring is being paid to do a particular job and that is to find new employees who will work out. It's very costly to hire, orient an employee, train the employee and then have nothing but problems with that employee.
Coworkers want someone who can share the work burden, not add to it. Customers need to be happy with the employee. You have to have an employee who actually wants to work, is happy working, knows how to work, can do the work.
The one who hires has a one or two page paper that he or she must use to decide who to call for an interview. Calling too many for an interview is a waste of everyone's time.
So if you were having to find a good employee who would fit in well with the other employees and who will do a good or at least adequate job -- how would you go about looking through the stack of resumes and applications? How would your job applicants get you to pick them out -- maybe you want to select 3 or 4 out of 100 resumes to follow up on and you can only choose but one from them. What would you do? What would you look for?
So when you write your resume, you have to look at it that way. Why would YOU hire you. What makes you better for a particular job than 99 other applicants? Or even 49 other applicants, or 9.
Now think for example you've got a pile of applications and resumes. One person has a solid job history, it's clear they can hold a job and must want or need to work. Another has only a few sporadic jobs that didn't last long. Maybe another makes it clear that he'd rather be doing anything else other than work. How can they rewrite their resumes to make you at least want to check them out further?
Even if there are problems with your job history, you at least have to make it seem that you really can work out for this employer, that you are somehow better than the others for this job.
I agree with some of that assesment but I don't veiw jobs as charity to provide me with money.I do think we put WAY too much focus on work as a be all end all in our lives at the expense of our happiness.Alot of that is our fault for becoming debt slaves.A big mortgage,school and credit card debt plus other run away spending is like a huge anchor that leaves people with few options for their lives.By the time alot of people pay off that debt(50s and 60s) they've wasted the prime of their lives worrying about bills,debt and work.
That's true.
One reason I never look down on what some people call "trailer-trash" is that a lot of those people did just what you said --- they refused to be debt slaves. Like one guy I know bought an older mobile home to live in and paid $3000 cash for it. Then he only needed to come up with lot rent which was very low, and utilities which were also very low.
And people will spend $1000 cash for a car while others will spend almost that much a month making payments on some luxury car.
There are jobs that allow one to combine adventure and travel with the job, sometimes they pay better. Not everyone wants to travel most of the time, but those jobs are out there for those who do.
One reason I never look down on what some people call "trailer-trash" is that a lot of those people did just what you said --- they refused to be debt slaves. Like one guy I know bought an older mobile home to live in and paid $3000 cash for it. Then he only needed to come up with lot rent which was very low, and utilities which were also very low.
And people will spend $1000 cash for a car while others will spend almost that much a month making payments on some luxury car.
There are jobs that allow one to combine adventure and travel with the job, sometimes they pay better. Not everyone wants to travel most of the time, but those jobs are out there for those who do.
There are people who live in trailers, there is trailer trash. The two can be but are not always mutually exclusive.
Why is it considered so awful by American society today to be out of work for any length of time? What if you have a nice nest egg accumulated and you just want a break? After all, the measly one or two weeks most people get off per year really doesn't cut it.
It is almost as if relaxing and taking some time away from the working world to enjoy yourself is a crime. After all, you don't want to be accused of being the dreaded "L" word.
I'm saving money hand over fist for retirement and investing it wisely so I won't have to work anymore one day. However, why does retirement have to happen all at once and when you are in your 50s/60s?
At that point, one foot is in the grave. Wouldn't it be better to maybe work five years, take off a year, work another five years, take off a year.. instead?
Its because here is America if you are not working your ass off to climb the corporate ladder than you must be some of loser. Work here is valued over anything else.
You're not suppose to want or need:
- time off
- to want to take vacations
- to want more than a week off a year
- to have a baby
- to want to receive income while on maternity leave
- to receive money when you retire
- to have time off if a family or loved one becomes ill long-term
In America, they expect that workers put work ahead of everything else and do this until you are no longer usable which is when they will replace you with someone younger and faster.
Its because here is America if you are not working your ass off to climb the corporate ladder than you must be some of loser. Work here is valued over anything else.
You're not suppose to want or need:
- time off
- to want to take vacations
- to want more than a week off a year
- to have a baby
- to want to receive income while on maternity leave
- to receive money when you retire
- to have time off if a family or loved one becomes ill long-term
In America, they expect that workers put work ahead of everything else and do this until you are no longer usable which is when they will replace you with someone younger and faster.
My mom took some time off after working over twenty-one years at a large corporation. She had been an actuary and VP. During the few years she was off, she volunteered at my brothers' school board and for a woman's organization. After four years of "retirement", she returned to work at the women's organization she volunteered for, and she still gets multiple offers for her. No problem....but she also had very marketable skills.
My mom took some time off after working over twenty-one years at a large corporation. She had been an actuary and VP. During the few years she was off, she volunteered at my brothers' school board and for a woman's organization. After four years of "retirement", she returned to work at the women's organization she volunteered for, and she still gets multiple offers for her. No problem....but she also had very marketable skills.
One thing I think you have to do is put yourself in the position of the one that is doing the hiring.
First you have to realize the one doing the hiring is being paid to do a particular job and that is to find new employees who will work out. It's very costly to hire, orient an employee, train the employee and then have nothing but problems with that employee.
Coworkers want someone who can share the work burden, not add to it. Customers need to be happy with the employee. You have to have an employee who actually wants to work, is happy working, knows how to work, can do the work.
The one who hires has a one or two page paper that he or she must use to decide who to call for an interview. Calling too many for an interview is a waste of everyone's time.
So if you were having to find a good employee who would fit in well with the other employees and who will do a good or at least adequate job -- how would you go about looking through the stack of resumes and applications? How would your job applicants get you to pick them out -- maybe you want to select 3 or 4 out of 100 resumes to follow up on and you can only choose but one from them. What would you do? What would you look for?
So when you write your resume, you have to look at it that way. Why would YOU hire you. What makes you better for a particular job than 99 other applicants? Or even 49 other applicants, or 9.
Now think for example you've got a pile of applications and resumes. One person has a solid job history, it's clear they can hold a job and must want or need to work. Another has only a few sporadic jobs that didn't last long. Maybe another makes it clear that he'd rather be doing anything else other than work. How can they rewrite their resumes to make you at least want to check them out further?
Even if there are problems with your job history, you at least have to make it seem that you really can work out for this employer, that you are somehow better than the others for this job.
it's back to the Catch-22 regarding job experience, you need experience to get a job, but you can't experience if nobody will hire you, the way to get experience is by having the job, and we always hear the main reason why employers are extremely reluctant to hire inexperienced people is because training costs money, i was having a discussion with someone about this, when i mentioned if it is because they are lazy to train the person, and this is what she said:
"I don't believe it is because the trainer, employer is lazy, experience shows a hiring-manager, job-recruiter that the person has held a job in good standings"
is that the main reason?
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