May 22 The Office: A couple of weeks ago I was watching a The
Office rerun, waiting before dinner was about to start. This woman
was being fired and the boss lists the reasons: "For the past 2 yrs,
you spend all your time online shopping, you smoke in your office, you
leave for
hours at a time or even days."
Me: I don't get that. Like
she's been doing this for 2 yrs? She would have been dismissed after a
month if she did that. Unless it's not until she's been at this job for
a yr did she
start behaving like that. I guess I'm saying it's unrealistic that she
would last this long.
I'm thinking of all the reasons she's
still here like: they couldn't find anyone to replace her, she hasn't
done anything illegal or immoral to get an automatic dismissal. She's
just a poor worker.
The Soup place: This kind of happened at the Soup place. I
mentioned about that co-worker who has an 80% chance she misses Mon. and
a 50% chance she misses Tues. She doesn't call. She lasted here for a
yr a half until the place closed down.
The managers were really
nice. They know when she's here, she's a good worker. She just has
poor attendance and doesn't call. One of the managers even said to me:
"I will give her one more chance" like if she doesn't show up and
doesn't call, she's gone. A couple weeks went by and she started not
showing up again.
Alias parody: This
reminds me of the MADtv parody. On Alias, Sydney is a
spy and graduate student. In the sketch she's missing all these classes
and she's giving excuses to her professor.
Professor: I'm going to give you 9 more chances!
lol.
I will say the sketch is funny and accurate. They even got an Asian
man as the professor just like on the first season of Alias.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdjmXqKedcI
Job Seeker: I read a few articles by Briana in the Job Seeker newsletter.
Tough interview questions: The
question is "Have you ever worked with someone you didn't like?" I'm
sure we all have. It's important about how to deal with it. Tell them
why the person wasn't likeable, how you handled the situation, and say
something positive about that
person.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/tough-interview-questions-iii/
Resume objective: This
discusses not being too specific and not too general. If you say
something specific like a marketing coordinator, they may not think of
you being able to be in a communications clerk job when you could be a
good fit for that.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/resume-objective-lines-do-you-need-one/
Over applying: The tips are over applying for 100 jobs a week to the point you don't remember who you applied to. Here's a good tip:
"Really think about the jobs you are applying to: will you enjoy it, or
will you want to quit after a month? Don’t apply for jobs that will end
up making your life miserable. The time saved when you disregard the ‘I
might as well try’ jobs can be better spent making your cover letter or
resume outstanding for the jobs you do apply for. Extra time should be
spent with family, hobbies, volunteering or odd-jobs – not spent sending
out endless resumes to companies you don’t want to work at."
The
thing is apply to jobs you're really interested in at first. After a
month or so, you don't seem to be getting interviews or jobs, that's
when you widen your net a bit and apply for something you don't really
love, but like. Then after some more time you apply to places you
tolerate.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/are-you-over-applying/
Job infographic:
This is a good infographic asking people if they like their bosses,
co-workers, have you ever dated someone at work and would you? Also how
much coffee you drink.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/hr-blogs/how-much-do-you-love-your-job-infographic/
Job hunting while employed:
Now this is a good article. Don't tell people that you are looking for
a job at work, because it could impact your current job. Don't talk
about it, and don't
look for a job during business hours and use the company's printer and
phone to do your job search.
Schedule interviews before and after
work, or during lunch hours. Now the references part is hard if they
want one from your current employer:
"If you can offer 3 other qualified
references, ask the hiring manager if those will be sufficient, as your
current boss doesn’t know you are looking for other work. If you can’t
offer enough recent, or good quality references and the hiring manager
insists they would like to contact your boss, tell them you are happy to
give them the information, but need a job offer first. You don’t want
to impact your current job without a solid commitment from the new
company."
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/job-hunting-while-employed/
Resume
tips: Keep your resume
connected to professional networks like Linked In.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/how-to-prepare-your-resume-so-it-stands-out-from-the-crowd/
May 25 Follow-up note:
After you do an interview, you should follow up with a note to the
interviewer thanking them for their time. Handwritten is good and all,
but in some cases emails are good too. A good tip was: "Do not mention
salary and benefits."
There is a good sample note in it.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/following-up-after-the-interview/
Questions to not ask:
Don't ask about salary, vacation time, flexible scheduling, and what
the company does. Anything about salary is after you get offered the
job.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/5-questions-never-to-ask-at-the-end-of-an-interview/
Questions to ask: At
the end of the interview, the interviewer asks: "Do you have any
questions?" #4 was basic questions like: "When can I expect to hear
from you?" I ask that kind of question, but like this: "When will you
make a hiring decision?"
#5 is good because I never thought to ask these questions before:
"Decision questions. This type of question shows confidence and a
willingness to fight for the job. “If you chose not to hire me, what
would be the main reason” “If you had to decide between two candidates
with similar skills and experience, what would be the determining
factor”
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/5-types-of-questions-to-ask-an-interviewer/
No callback: Here's an article of why you applied and didn't hear from them. Like #2 is how you didn't "keyword optimize your resume."
"If the job description lists words in a certain order, e.g. a list of
programming languages required, use the same order in your resume."
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/reasons-you-never-hear-back-after-a-job-application/
Explaining why you were fired:
The thing is to be honest why you were fired. Stay positive, don't
trash talk, and be cool. Don't show that you were angry, show what you
learned. It reminds me of being at Telemarketer #1 job. After 4 days I
was dismissed because I didn't sell anything.
Then a week
later I did a job interview at Telemarketer #2 job and I had to be
honest and say that I worked at Telemarketer #1 job. I did ask: "Does
that count as working for the same company?" It was like the same
company, but different branches. The #2 boss was nice because she did
ask: "What did you learn from it?"
Me: I learned to really listen to what the customer is saying.
#2 did dismiss me after 4 days
because I didn't sell anything. Well, it looks like being a telemarketer to sell subscriptions is a difficult job.
http://www.hiregroundsoftware.com/blog/job-seekers/explaining-that-you-were-fired-from-your-last-position/
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