job sites - pet peeves (job hunting, employee, sample, applying)

[gardener34]

OK I am searching for employment. I have pet peeves regarding those online job sites:

1. every search I do, it comes up with tons of these "work at home" scams hits... what is UP with that. Like 50-60 of these things. I have to weed through them to get to the real jobs.

2. Job postings that say XXXskills "a plus" Do you want me to know the skill or not?! Is it a requirement? I went to one interview when they said the skill was a "plus" and that was the only thing they got all hung up on the fact that I didn't have a whole lot of experience doing that one skill that was supposedly a "plus". If it was so important, then why did you call me in to interview me?

3. Jobs that post they want someone with 1-2 years of experience. Yet they list all the stuff that it would take like 5 years to learn to do correctly. "entry level" = we want a top notch skilled employee but don't want to pay very much.

Your pet peeves in your job searches?

[texdav]

Originally Posted by gardener34

OK I am searching for employment. I have pet peeves regarding those online job sites:

1. every search I do, it comes up with tons of these "work at home" scams hits... what is UP with that. Like 50-60 of these things. I have to weed through them to get to the real jobs.

2. Job postings that say XXXskills "a plus" Do you want me to know the skill or not?! Is it a requirement? I went to one interview when they said the skill was a "plus" and that was the only thing they got all hung up on the fact that I didn't have a whole lot of experience doing that one skill that was supposedly a "plus". If it was so important, then why did you call me in to interview me?

3. Jobs that post they want someone with 1-2 years of experience. Yet they list all the stuff that it would take like 5 years to learn to do correctly. "entry level" = we want a top notch skilled employee but don't want to pay very much.

Your pet peeves in your job searches?

My pet peeves are when I am up late you can see the infomercials that just target those that don't work and are desperate. They don't talk about a making living but about becoming a millionaire with no work. Make you wander about many people really because those commercail aren't cheap to make or pay for.Alot of positions advertised want peolpe that can advance and want to eliminate those that just meet the skills needed to do the job. Mkaes it esy to pick someone ovber qualified over someone just qualified.I sometimes think that that got the idea from seeing so many exagerated resumes from peole applying.

[gardener34]

I never lie on my qualifications. You will get busted.

When I was searching around 9/11 I dumbed down my resume totally. Because the market was so bad, I was up against top level execs for mid level jobs and the corps were bottom feeding.

So guess what, with 20 years experience I ended up with entry level. I was glad to work after a year and a half.

And here I am again, after 5 years, back on that wagon. Not nearly as bad as it was then.

[gold dust]

Recruiters who post expired job postings.

[gardener34]

Yeah, that stinks... they are just fishing. I don't even bother to apply to any positions that are more than 3 days old. I suspect that hundreds of people apply to these things once they hit the sites. And I make sure I am 100% qualified, even ONE thing I don't have as a qualification.... I forget about that position.

[gold dust]

Originally Posted by gardener34

And I make sure I am 100% qualified, even ONE thing I don't have as a qualification.... I forget about that position.

Me too!

Job hunting sucks!

[Ivorytickler]

Originally Posted by gardener34

OK I am searching for employment. I have pet peeves regarding those online job sites:

1. every search I do, it comes up with tons of these "work at home" scams hits... what is UP with that. Like 50-60 of these things. I have to weed through them to get to the real jobs.

2. Job postings that say XXXskills "a plus" Do you want me to know the skill or not?! Is it a requirement? I went to one interview when they said the skill was a "plus" and that was the only thing they got all hung up on the fact that I didn't have a whole lot of experience doing that one skill that was supposedly a "plus". If it was so important, then why did you call me in to interview me?

3. Jobs that post they want someone with 1-2 years of experience. Yet they list all the stuff that it would take like 5 years to learn to do correctly. "entry level" = we want a top notch skilled employee but don't want to pay very much.

Your pet peeves in your job searches?

Oohh, Oohhh, NUMBER 3. I applied to a job that listed about 10 years worth of experience I happen to have, but they wanted someone in the field for 2-5 years. They wanted concept to customer in a single product line (I have that plus product testing in that product line) and you'd never find that in someone with 2-5 years. More like 10+. They didn't want to hire me because I had too many years in (translation, they don't want to pay for that experience). That one ticked me off. Took three requests to even get an answer from them and then it was they were looking for someone newer to engineering. Um, like, do you WANT this experience or not?

This job has been reposted several times. Surprise, surprise.

[ComputerUser000]

Originally Posted by gardener34

OK I am searching for employment. I have pet peeves regarding those online job sites:

1. every search I do, it comes up with tons of these "work at home" scams hits... what is UP with that. Like 50-60 of these things. I have to weed through them to get to the real jobs.

2. Job postings that say XXXskills "a plus" Do you want me to know the skill or not?! Is it a requirement? I went to one interview when they said the skill was a "plus" and that was the only thing they got all hung up on the fact that I didn't have a whole lot of experience doing that one skill that was supposedly a "plus". If it was so important, then why did you call me in to interview me?

3. Jobs that post they want someone with 1-2 years of experience. Yet they list all the stuff that it would take like 5 years to learn to do correctly. "entry level" = we want a top notch skilled employee but don't want to pay very much.

Your pet peeves in your job searches?

Very well said, those are some of my pet peeves.

One job was posted on the Vermont Broadcasters Association website, telling you to snail mail in your Resume, Cover letter and CD of your audio samples.

The deadline was only 3 days later!!

And they didn't respond to an email asking if it was OK to email the stuff in.

[gold dust]

Someone said to me today ... it's not WHAT you know it's WHO you know. Ahhhhh!

[Ivorytickler]

Originally Posted by gold dust

Someone said to me today ... it's not WHAT you know it's WHO you know. Ahhhhh!

Yeah, I just signed up with a firm that's supposed to help polish me and my resume (paid for by my ex employer). The first thing they told me is forget all the old ways of finding a job. It's networking today. You need to make that contact to find that job. Which stinks because I know a lot of what but few whos. All the whos I know work for my old company That's not good, is it?