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Applying for jobs is exhausting and soul-crushing
- Thread starter BarryAllen
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Been in the process for a job for months now... Very slow going.
I feel bad because the job I have now is honestly great on paper and everyone is great and they're letting me do great stuff... but I feel like I'm languishing away. It has nothing to do with anything I want to do.
I feel bad because the job I have now is honestly great on paper and everyone is great and they're letting me do great stuff... but I feel like I'm languishing away. It has nothing to do with anything I want to do.
Thanks for this, read it when you posted but just now quoting lol.
But yeah there are a TON of these jobs being advertised here in Japan. A lot of them seem to be slightly shady or at least quick turn around companies sadly. Maybe getting people to take care of the little things as best they can for 6 months, maybe a year then moving on. Don't think these kinds of jobs will be for me.
Also started mulling over maybe taking time off of full time work and doing a language school for 6 months to a year. I could save the entire cost in the last three months of my job before my contract expires and get a part time to tide me over... but at 30 (I TURN 30 TOMORROW) I'm really on the fence about it. It would/could enhance my prospects a lot, and depending where I go be relatively cheap to live, get my language skills up to snuff by only studying for something like 5 hours a day and look again...
Or I could take one of the hopefully not sketch English teaching jobs for a year contract and keep trying my best with self study... hmm. Still poking around at the idea of going back to America/moving on to a new country as well, but might be a waste considering some of the connections I made. -sigh- being an adult is tough.
I had my first pleasant interview in like literally ever. For the first time it felt like a conversation and not an interrogation. I got the job too which is great :)
Meetings are happening this week. Team wont be shut down but we expect some number of lay offs. Nothing set in stone yet.
Basically The company will keep people on but there is now going to be a hard split on who gets paid what. The Longer term staffers who where I guess mostly hold overs from a merger a few years ago will be hired directly by the company and get the benefits + pay increase that come with that. (only 3 of those and gosh if those guys arent being smug pricks about it.) and the rest of us (8 or so) will mostly be kept on but through a temp company but with the same basic pay we had before but no benefits. Keep in mind we all do the exact same job. And if anything those 3 people are the worst of the bunch we spent the day cleaning up mistakes from. Its purely based on how long they are there. People are understandably not happy about that.
We are told to expect some people let go because fuck having enough people to do the job but haven't been told how many other then our manger trying to keep it to a minimum (but trust is at a low right now so who knows. Could be 1. Could be half.)
Personally I am applying away when I get home every day. And even if I get taken on through that temp company I dont think I will stop applying. Fuck this place.
My wife and I are both interviewing this week. She is currently a director for a fortune 100 company and interviewing for a VP level job for a much much smaller company. She had her second f2f interview today and will have another with the VC company backing them later this week.
I have been doing consulting work the past year but am getting bored. I am interviewing with a retail company to be a senior manager for their TA group covering 2000 hires a year. I'd like to get hands on again as I'm only working 20 hours a week on average (still pulling in 6 figures) but am nervous the work could dry up
I have been doing consulting work the past year but am getting bored. I am interviewing with a retail company to be a senior manager for their TA group covering 2000 hires a year. I'd like to get hands on again as I'm only working 20 hours a week on average (still pulling in 6 figures) but am nervous the work could dry up
Good luck to everyone here. I was in the same boat at this time last year, but I got through. Just keep hammering at it and I'm sure you all will eventually get a break :).
For those who currently aren't a fan of your job, it doesn't hurt to interview WHILE you have your current job. Gives you more leeway that way.
For those who currently aren't a fan of your job, it doesn't hurt to interview WHILE you have your current job. Gives you more leeway that way.
is there etiquette in dealing with recruiters?
2 recruiters came to me with the same job posting. meaning the same company asked these and maybe more recruiters to help them fill the position.
1 of them has been working with me for a few weeks now, and the other came to me last week, but was the first on the draw to present the position.
my current situ: feeling useless and dumb. had 3 interviews. got passed on 2, and probably the third. i knew that would happen, but try anyway. i've been out of the game (and out of work) for over 2 years and my skills have deteriorated.
i want to do python/backend progging since that's new and exciting to me.
but most of my skills is in mobile/ios/objective c (and the new hotness is swift) but i forgotten a buncha details in how things work.
it's kinda rough going trying to decide what to work on. and my ass needs to be kicked into doing something productive every day.
my mom's anxious of me finding a job again. been telling everyone about my struggles. which i interpret as telling everyone i'm a lame duck.
gotta keep grinding, but i need to grind harder
congrats! those are the best types of interviews.
2 recruiters came to me with the same job posting. meaning the same company asked these and maybe more recruiters to help them fill the position.
1 of them has been working with me for a few weeks now, and the other came to me last week, but was the first on the draw to present the position.
my current situ: feeling useless and dumb. had 3 interviews. got passed on 2, and probably the third. i knew that would happen, but try anyway. i've been out of the game (and out of work) for over 2 years and my skills have deteriorated.
i want to do python/backend progging since that's new and exciting to me.
but most of my skills is in mobile/ios/objective c (and the new hotness is swift) but i forgotten a buncha details in how things work.
it's kinda rough going trying to decide what to work on. and my ass needs to be kicked into doing something productive every day.
my mom's anxious of me finding a job again. been telling everyone about my struggles. which i interpret as telling everyone i'm a lame duck.
gotta keep grinding, but i need to grind harder
congrats! those are the best types of interviews.
I interviewed someone for a Staples job about 3 weeks ago. A fucking Staples job. For context, I worked at OfficeMax and was hired at a Staples previously. Interview went great, we were chatting like casual friends. Interviewer told me she would have to talk to her manager about the wage I was looking to get, but felt I was worth the money. Never got a call back.
I have an interview with an IT company Monday, for a contract position that will last a year. I had 3 interviews the past week, 2 of them with recruiters. Still no bone thrown my way. Just have to keep going I guess.
I have an interview with an IT company Monday, for a contract position that will last a year. I had 3 interviews the past week, 2 of them with recruiters. Still no bone thrown my way. Just have to keep going I guess.
I've actually had this happen to me twice this year. Once in January where the company I applied for said that alongside the first position I applied for there was a second one that I filled out an application for. The bolded happened and I never heard a word from them since Jan 2nd. Eventually found out through their website that I was no longer a contender for the position, even though I was informed that I would be kept in the know via email or phone. Another place had me do a sample assignment once they were interested and brought me in for an interview where they said they would let me know about the position in a few weeks. That was in Mid-March and since then I've heard nothing but crickets.
EDIT: Good luck with the interview!
I got an interview tomorrow. But right now it's either rejections or ghosting. Here's to hope I suppose
Yea I posted a few months ago about an interview I did back in January. The company told me they would get back to me by the end of the following week, 2 weeks later I get a hastily written rejection email saying they will keep me in their records. I went in for 2 interviews and nailed both of them, no idea what happened.
I'm 25 and have a pretty bad 'career' history. Last 2 years was spent bouncing around between crappy unskilled roles. Long term goal now is to go work in web development so I'm hoping that going back to university in a few months will get my life back on track.
Before I got my first industry job, I was turned down by GameStop. All these years later, it ended up being a blessing, even though it felt shitty at the time.
You are better than Staples. Fuck 'em.
I envy you. Couldn't get into the game industry if I tried. I did, actually, went to school. Ran out of money and made no connections.
I have a few interviews in the hopper, and one really big one that I've done my final round for and am waiting to hear back this week. Worst part for me is the waiting. I have to keep reminding myself that just because I'm up and working at 8am, no one else is. I probably check my email a thousand times a day.
I had like three Gamestop interviews that went nowhere. I'm eternally thankful I never got hired.
Some interviewers are very good at pokerface. They act real jovial and pleased with you but in reality you may not be their first pick. Always look forward to the final email.
It's never too late for that. Especially wowi social media. Find the game dev community hub, start posting and uploading work and process and talk in the forums. You'd be surprised how many devs low-key lurk your art and don't day anything
The happened to me a couple of times. In one instance, they showed me around the building and talked about the cafeteria. Nowadays, I assume nothing.
It's been 3 weeks since my interview, haven't heard back from the recruiter yet. I think it would look desperate to email him for an update, so I guess I'll just keep sending out applications.
Finally have my first interview this Friday. Been looking for anything good since I graduated, but it's pretty dire. I studied Japanese, got a 4.0 GPA, got a one year scholarship in Tokyo and everything, but there's 0 jobs with Japanese in my area so I'm applying for any job in communication or social media management now, most of them way below my level. When I applied to things at my level I was rejected because of "lack of experience" so I'm basically grabbing anything I can.
Feels pretty bad after working my ass off for school for 6 years, thinking it would be worth it in the end. Well, maybe one day...
Feels pretty bad after working my ass off for school for 6 years, thinking it would be worth it in the end. Well, maybe one day...
It's never desperate to follow up or to check-in. Until they reject you assume you're in the running. If their intention is to ghost you at least you'll know for sure a day or two after sending off an email.
Ya when in doubt, JET. I made the mistake of not finishing my application senior year. I spent 11 months unemployed that could have been spent whimsically romping about the Japanese countryside or something.
I applied again for this year and was offered an interview but by then I had finally gotten a job. I applied to have it as a back up incase the job was miserable and I wanted to leave.
Not having sick days really sucks. I want to float my resume out there (I have to, it's time), but it also stings having to take time off to go to interviews.
Just gotta suck it up though, I know.
Just gotta suck it up though, I know.
Has anyone here applied and worked a federal job in states. How long was the whole application to working process? I've had two good interviews and my references said they were contacted. My online profile says selected but I've heard nothing and don't want to get excited for nothing.
My potential day of execution has been push to July 1th.
Now they are talking about merging my team with another from another site that will move in with us which would me a cause of cuts because they would be taking some work from us.
Also after that hours will change with Later shifts which would be ok now but I plan on doing some night classes later and wouldn't be able to do.
1 teammate already landed a job. Another is in tears daily and we just hope she finds a job before she walks out because she is despite being dramatic at times, is the best worker we got.
I booked a few days off in may and June for extra me time If I don't find a gig by then.
Shit it weird. People are emotional. I kinda don't care that much. maybe because i always viewed it as a step to a better job. This is near my 1 year anniversary here which was when I always planned to start looking elsewhere.
Now they are talking about merging my team with another from another site that will move in with us which would me a cause of cuts because they would be taking some work from us.
Also after that hours will change with Later shifts which would be ok now but I plan on doing some night classes later and wouldn't be able to do.
1 teammate already landed a job. Another is in tears daily and we just hope she finds a job before she walks out because she is despite being dramatic at times, is the best worker we got.
I booked a few days off in may and June for extra me time If I don't find a gig by then.
Shit it weird. People are emotional. I kinda don't care that much. maybe because i always viewed it as a step to a better job. This is near my 1 year anniversary here which was when I always planned to start looking elsewhere.
I have no marketable skills aside from IT. I can't even program at this point, which is what I was going to school for. I'm not an artist.
So we had an entire business update yesterday.
All of operations and supply chain are being made redundant, which unfortunately I fall under. We knew it was coming just not when.
The other areas of the business will be made redundant shortly after us. Sucks having a parent company lol.
250 staff about to lose their jobs.
Spoke with hr yesterday and they've offered me a choice to either be made redundant or to apply for a job that they're advertising. The thing is they have only listed the job title. No mention of location, no salary listed, not even a position description.
Need to know that info first before making a decision. Have until next Thursday to make it.
All of operations and supply chain are being made redundant, which unfortunately I fall under. We knew it was coming just not when.
The other areas of the business will be made redundant shortly after us. Sucks having a parent company lol.
250 staff about to lose their jobs.
Spoke with hr yesterday and they've offered me a choice to either be made redundant or to apply for a job that they're advertising. The thing is they have only listed the job title. No mention of location, no salary listed, not even a position description.
Need to know that info first before making a decision. Have until next Thursday to make it.
Got my first phone interview since starting my post-college job hunt. It's tomorrow morning with a company I've never heard of - EtQ. It's an Information Technology job, which I'm hoping doesn't mean Tech Support Call Center. If it's a call center environment, I'm going to politely decline. I went back to college to get OUT of call centers.
Well I had an interview with one job yesterday. They emailed me back a few hours later to schedule a time to tour the campus! I hope this is a legit end to job hunting. Not only does it suck but I'm tired of retail.
Good luck! Do you have more rounds of interviews after the tour?
Thanks.
On the bright side I'd get a mini holiday with a redundancy package lol
Based on the Glassdoor details it may involve a fake 'day at the job' type of evaluation. Otherwise it's basically done in a sense outside of a face to face meet up.
Had a phone interview today that went well, I think. It's for a tech support job with a software company. It's not *quite* what I want, but it would do for now. They're passing my resume to the tech support manager to see if they want me to come in for another interview.
I got hired about a week and a half ago at a Verizon Indirect (franchised store). 40 hrs a week at $10 + commission (not the greatest, but it beats the 17 hours I was getting at Target. Today was my last day at Target and the new job was working around the old one.
I've been graduated from college for a little less than a month. In that time I've applied for nearly 200 jobs, had I think six interviews (technically seven since I made it to stage 2 for one job, so I had two interviews for one position). I got rejected from four of those, one of them I declined when I got to the interview since it seemed like a psuedo-pyramid scheme, and one of them I had last afternoon and haven't heard back from (but it went meh). One of them was a government job which I got pretty far into the application process for (part of which consisted of taking a couple of long exams, both of which I did well on) but then was basically put on a waitlist after I interviewed. I even got rejected from an unpaid position at a nonprofit.
I'm starting to feel kind of hopeless and soul crushed. I'm not going to give up but I just feel like there's a good chance just continuing with the grind isn't going to get me anywhere. I majored in Econ from a decent but not amazing university, had a shit GPA (with a fairly good major GPA, my shit GPA comes from being in another major for three years while dealing with pretty big mental health problems for two of those three years), no extracurriculars and no social life which means no connections to help me get my foot in the door. The only internship I managed to get consisted of doing grunt work for an educational company that any high school graduate could have done for like 2-5 hours a week, so nothing applicable to the field I'm trying to go into. I just feel like I'm going to pale in comparison to every other applicant. I made my coursework/projects the focus of my resume which I hope helps but idk.
I'm starting to feel kind of hopeless and soul crushed. I'm not going to give up but I just feel like there's a good chance just continuing with the grind isn't going to get me anywhere. I majored in Econ from a decent but not amazing university, had a shit GPA (with a fairly good major GPA, my shit GPA comes from being in another major for three years while dealing with pretty big mental health problems for two of those three years), no extracurriculars and no social life which means no connections to help me get my foot in the door. The only internship I managed to get consisted of doing grunt work for an educational company that any high school graduate could have done for like 2-5 hours a week, so nothing applicable to the field I'm trying to go into. I just feel like I'm going to pale in comparison to every other applicant. I made my coursework/projects the focus of my resume which I hope helps but idk.
Tomorrow is my flight for my interview. It's a three day screening process (interview, medical, psychological, and psychical tests). Assuming I pass everything then it's just the background investigation for my clearance and waiting on an academy date. So pretty much the last main hurdle in the process. Hopefully it goes well.
So I recently interviewed for an analyst position and the interview lasted about 40 minutes with the director of pricing and promotions. The problem is he only really asked two questions: What do you know about the company and Tell me about yourself.
He told me he was impressed with the research I did on the company and liked that I had a respectable degree in economics. He then spent at least 10-15 minutes describing the company in detail and the position. The rest of the time was just me asking questions and following up on his answers. I tried to name drop the past interviewers and some connections on LinkedIn that gave me advice on the process as well.
Has anybody ever been through interview like this? What was the outcome like?
Edit: And he was definitely prepared. His desk had my resume and notes from my previous interview and phone screening.
He told me he was impressed with the research I did on the company and liked that I had a respectable degree in economics. He then spent at least 10-15 minutes describing the company in detail and the position. The rest of the time was just me asking questions and following up on his answers. I tried to name drop the past interviewers and some connections on LinkedIn that gave me advice on the process as well.
Has anybody ever been through interview like this? What was the outcome like?
Edit: And he was definitely prepared. His desk had my resume and notes from my previous interview and phone screening.