The job I'm trying to leave just mandated 11 hour work days. I didn't even know that was legal.
The job I'm trying to leave just mandated 11 hour work days. I didn't even know that was legal.
It's a state job. Working 5 days at 11 hours.It's not that unusual especially in shift work industries like manufacturing and healthcare. Im assuming you're working 3 or 4, 11 hour days?
I turned down a job at a company about 6 months ago because I felt that I was getting jerked around by the hiring process (just super disorganized on multiple levels, they took forever to respond to me between each interview stage, etc.). The other day the hiring manager reached out to me and apologized for that experience and asked me if I'd consider another offer...kind of an interesting proposition. Guess we'll see with the salary they come back with this time.
The advice I've heard from managers is if the experience is related to the job spec, you should include it. So if it's a management position at a studio, then it would make sense to have a line or two about the type of team you managed and how you managed them. But if there isn't anything related to that work, then it's not really worth listing it and going for brevity.I'm working on completely re-hauling my resume and make it 1-2 pages max, preferably a one-page. I've worked a lot of jobs with a lot of different experience, and I'm at a point where I'm trimming the fat. I'm mostly applying for creative jobs (graphic design, photography, videography) but I've been leaving my ~8 years of retail management experience on my resume every time (just one job) and I wonder if it hurts me or not. Every other job I list is creative-based in some way, but I feel like mentioning that I managed a team, payroll, marketing, etc. in a retail space for that long is a positive, but the actual experience may not be relevant to the jobs I'm looking for in particular. I haven't been getting any bites on the past 20 or so jobs I've applied for, so I feel like I may be doing something wrong.
Good for you, that's awesome. What's the job if you don't mind sharing?Just applied to my dream job. I'm slightly under qualified, so I probably won't get it, but it's nice to put myself out there instead of just giving up without trying.
Narrative designer at this cool game company.Good for you, that's awesome. What's the job if you don't mind sharing?
It really depends on what the company does with the resume. A common tactic is to fill your resume with words for companies that use software to look through the resume for certain keywords. Your old method is probably better for smaller companies that actually look at the resume.My company went through a restructuring recently and me and about 30 other people lost our jobs. I quickly updated my resume and LinkedIn and have taken advantage of a career transition group my last job hired for us poor suckers. They redid my resume and I'm not sure I like it? I had a nice, slim one page look that I was happy with and they turned it into a pretty wordy two-page. They're the experts and I guess I didn't get any bites with my version so we'll see how it goes.
Looking for my second job ever rn. I got the first one in college after one interview, and it's been nearly 5 years (most of that part time, remote). So I've never really had to do the whole interview process before and it's... hard. I'm looking for a step up in my career that I know I can do, but most places require 3-5 years experience in that role. Like... people have to start somewhere??? How can they all expect 5 years experience???
I guess I'm lucky though, reading through many of these responses and how long it's taken many of you. It's been about a month of searching so far and I've had 5 or so interviews and one on site.
This was "required" on a job posting I was looking at:
What is the purpose of a reference from a supervisor? Like I'm going up to my boss and saying, "Hey Bill, need you to put in a good word for me at my next job."
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
Been trying for the last year off-on to find something. I've had one interview with a small company that essentially wanted someone to come in and fix everything.
Are there places I should be looking besides LinkedIn, Indeed and ZipRecruiter? My background is in journalism but I've worked in marketing and currently in customer service/training.
Are there places I should be looking besides LinkedIn, Indeed and ZipRecruiter? My background is in journalism but I've worked in marketing and currently in customer service/training.
After 8 months of being let go and the constant job hunting I was finally got a job offer. This process has been so much harder mentally and emotionally. Though not my second job ever this will be the first time having a job outside of the company that I worked for since high school. Thankfully I was able to establish good experiences and though after lowering my expectations for salary, benefits, and work/life balance; I found this position for a company opening up a new building in our area. Where as I honestly expected to find a new job way below what I made prior, I was offered 10k above my previous base salary plus a M-F / 7-4 gig. For me (coming from a retail company), this is a dream for me.
I know everyone says it all the time; but keep at it. When you're unemployed, applying to new jobs IS your job. I am lucky I have my wife who kept my spirits up during all the countless 1st and 2nd interviews that went no where in the last 8 months.
Out of curiosity, which city? I'm out in Vancouver, and yeah, is pricey.Have my first interview since being fired in December next Tuesday. It's at a smaller video game company. The position is 50/50 split between Japanese translation and production type stuff. The catch is that, if I do get the job, I'd have to move to one of the most expensive cities in Canada. The current city I live in is fairly affordable, and I only pay $750 rent—albeit I live with a roommate. The company has pretty negative reviews on Glassdoor, too. I guess I'll just do the interview and play it by ear. The plus would be that I could work at this company, get experience, then move to a better video game company down the road. There are two other video game companies in that city that I know firsthand have great work conditions/salary.
I'd prefer not to say, but it isn't in Vancouver. I have previously lived there and grimace remembering how damn expensive it is...Out of curiosity, which city? I'm out in Vancouver, and yeah, is pricey.
Been trying for the last year off-on to find something. I've had one interview with a small company that essentially wanted someone to come in and fix everything.
Are there places I should be looking besides LinkedIn, Indeed and ZipRecruiter? My background is in journalism but I've worked in marketing and currently in customer service/training.
I'm about to hand in my resignation today. I'm unsure if it's the right thing to do - I don't have another job lined up but I am a freelance artist on the side so I will have a little bit of money coming in - any advice from anyone that's been in this position?
I cannot stand working another day there, my line manager is borderline bullying and targeting me and my mental health is currently in a very bad place as it is, but I fear no income is going to impact me even worse (I do have savings however)
Ugh, sorry to hear it. At least you're getting leads though. Mind sharing what your current job is?Well of my the five phone interviews I had within a week, three weeks ago, no job offers came of any of it.
Two didn't get past a phone screen, one ghosted me after saying they were going to set-up an in-person, and two were a no after the in-person. One of the in-person rejection had the hiring manager telling me it had nothing to do with my interview quality, said I interviewed great when asking for feedback, but another candidate had more experience in what they wanted for the role.
Well hopefully some more interviews turn-up soon, I'm not sure how much longer my sanity can take my current job and more specifically my manager. Job searching really is soul-crushing. Whole process made me realize how woefully unequipped my current job has made me for someone with my job title....
Current job title is Junior Product Manager for an ecommerce site. Of course we had personnel and strategy changes close to when I got the position last year which greatly hindered my growth and my actual experience level in the role despite having it for over a year. Other issue is that low-level product positions are primarily filled internally so there is not much out there as far as stuff to apply for goes.Ugh, sorry to hear it. At least you're getting leads though. Mind sharing what your current job is?
As a start, maybe try the Khan Academy SQL course. I really liked it as a starting point. Gotta follow it up with a project though.Current job title is Junior Product Manager for an ecommerce site. Of course we had personnel and strategy changes close to when I got the position last year which greatly hindered my growth and my actual experience level in the role despite having it for over a year. Other issue is that low-level product positions are primarily filled internally so there is not much out there as far as stuff to apply for goes.
Someone I work with suggests I apply for Business Analyst positions, but I have no SQL or Tableau knowledge which limits my prospects for those positions greatly. Does anyone have any recommended classes/certifications to learn them?
How many jobs have you applied for? If you've only done it a lot in the past month then you may just need the numbers. I know your position, I have a PhD and it took some doing when I wanted to change fields.Ive been looking for a job for the past months but only started really trying about a month ago. Updated my LinkedIn profile, got an interview that appeared to have gone well but in the end led to an email that didnt get a reply lol.
I am looking to move to a bigger city and there are very few companies I am interested in working on (Transportation Engineering). The option of "go and work somewhere just to get some money" doesnt help because there is no way I am moving to Sao Paulo (20M people), renting a place near the "temporary job" only to find another job that will potentially be in the other side of the city and make me commute for 2 or more hours per day. No fucking way I want that for my life.
My education is great, best University around plus 2 times exchange student abroad, plus a PhD (that I am still finishing). But I only had contact with the "private sector" for about 6 months during my PhD when I worked with a company... Honestly all this kinda suck because I feel HR people will either look at my resume and say "dude has no working experience, gtfo" or "ohh, he is about to become a PhD so he will either want high salary or he will just leave our company to be a professor/researcher st some point". And here I am, just looking for a decent job in my field, no need for higher than usual salary...
There was this company that had a job open that was 90% exactly what I did on my PhD. Sent CV through their site, through LinkedIn, through email directly to the HR and also sent a message to another HR person on LinkedIn. Not a single response. Seriously pissed at that, they can hire whoever they want (obviously) but for this specific position I doubt that my experience wasn't enough for at least a phone call.
In a good day I apply for 5 jobs or so, I try to apply for at least one but there are days that I dont even look because I am busy with something else. Im almost 30 and I think that if I get a job in other area, even within Civil Engineering, it will be practically impossible to move to Transportation / Planning...How many jobs have you applied for? If you've only done it a lot in the past month then you may just need the numbers. I know your position, I have a PhD and it took some doing when I wanted to change fields.
Okay. I applied for an IT job at hospital. I had a 15 minute phone technical interview a few weeks ago. This week, I had an in person interview for 30 minutes with the person who would be my new supervisor and another team member. Today, I got an email from the Talent Acquisition Partner at the hospital to setup a phone interview for 30 minutes next week. What do you think that means?