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I got my job through CareerBuilder or Dice. I can't even remember but those are the only two places my resume is. Recruiter called me, ask if I was interested. I was, and the account manager called me and forwarded my resume to the hiring manager. Had a phone interview a few days later, pretty much got a call an hour later saying he wanted to bring me on. Couldnt meet my boss in person due to him being in Seattle and I was in Atlanta. Later found out that there were no more cubicle assignments in Atlanta or Dallas, so I would have to move to Seattle and work. I worked the first month sharing a cubicle in Atlanta, and started I started in Seattle in July.
About any job I've gotten in my field has been through internet and recruiters calling me. I've been in IT for 13 years. The only IT job I never got via internet was my first job in 1999
Which is why I never applied to jobs on a company website. You are the third person to say you applied online but it was the network who got you the job.
Nonsense. You've said many times on many threads that one of the reasons you hate to apply online is because it just takes you too long and you simply give up on the whole process. Seriously, you're a "professional" Job/Employment Counselor who's been unemployed for 10 months now and whose UC is coming to an end in the next few months - so how has your "networking" worked out?
Of course networking is crucial and nobody has ever disputed that but to say that, "you are the third person ... the network who (sic) got you the job" is totally ludicrous. Third person out of how many on this thread? You need to find a new career path as all your vast experience in the field hasn't done much for you in the last year and hardly lends to your credibility.
Results will be skewed since the sample you're testing will overwhelmingly favor one option.
It's similar to going to a job fair and finding that 10/11 people found their last job at a job fair.
I'm just saying.
Results will be skewed since the sample you're testing will overwhelmingly favor one option.
It's similar to going to a job fair and finding that 10/11 people found their last job at a job fair.
I'm just saying.
Not to mention the sample size is far too small at this point to be meaningful.
I believe that;s what I said, you applied and your network is what helped you get called in for a interview.
And I'll question again - how has that worked out for you? By all accounts not too well thus far.
My problem with you is that you simply give bad advice to the unemployed when you're allegedly a professional job counselor. By your own admission you worked for not for profit, state-funded agencies helping ex-cons and otherwise "disestablished" unfortunates trying to find employment. You've never been in management, have never worked in a corporate environment. State funding has resulted in cuts to the not for profit organizations with whom you've been employed. You've been laid off via these cuts in the last two years. You've been collecting UC for 10 months now and every big "new strategy" you've been touting since Day One which was guaranteed to have you fully employed by "next month" has come to nought.
You have a history of not taking advice from anyone on any subject but, hypothetically, if you asked for advice from someone on any subject, wouldn't you research that person's credentials/double check their advice before accepting their word?
I'm the walk in vote. You have to remeber that I only had 2 jobs in my life and the internet wasn't this when I graduated high school. First job was kinda arranged by my pops with someone he knew that hired me for the summer and while at that job I was servicing my current employers needs. I was there to make a drop off and in the process overheard two people attempting to communicate in a foreign language that neither was proficient in. Lucky I knew the main languages enough to translate and that led to the manager thanking me and talking to me about things, and that led to a job offer. I'm still there.
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