Dec. 6 Job interviews: Today was my day off and it was very productive.
Energy company:
First I went
to a job interview at an energy company in the morning. Prior to it, I
was reading the business sections of the newspaper. The place was easy
for me to get to. I will admit I did do a job interview for them
before a couple of years ago when it was for a customer service
representative. The CSR position was going door-to-door selling energy.
This
time, I was going for the interviewer position. On the phone, he said I
was to interview people and decide who to hire. I thought "HR." I did
the interview, and I was told to be a recruiter. It's like I'm
supposed to recruit as many people as people like putting up job ads on
the
internet. 80 people will be recruited, 50 people will come, 25 people
will stick around. 12 people do the job shadow, and 6 come back. 2
stick around for a long time.
I was asked a question: "If a
candidate learned it's a door-to-door sales position, and suddenly
they're not interested, what do you say to them?" I said: "I would tell
them this position is not for them."
He then said the answer was
supposed to be: "You're supposed to sell them how it's a really good
job opportunity and talk about commissions." There is going to be a 2nd
round of interviews. The interview was about 10 min. long.
Errands:
I then went to downtown and bumped into my brother. We chatted a bit.
Then I deposited a check. I recycled two pens at Staples. I read the
newspaper and ate chips as I bide my time before I go to another job
interview in the afternoon.
Hair salon:
I went to another job interview at a hair salon. It was easy to get
to. I sat and read a magazine there for 15min because I got there 15min
before it was scheduled to start. I then read some more of my
newspapers that I brought. There were two candidates before me. Then
after that, the phone was ringing and he had to take those calls. I
read some more.
The interview was about a few min. long. It was a
nice place. They answered my questions like when they make a hiring
decision.
Meet up: After that, since I was in downtown, I
stopped by this office. They had called me and I left 2 messages at 2
different days. I talked to the receptionist about my situation, and
she got the person. I spoke to her, and she said that she was really
busy and haven't gotten to her voice mail yet. But she will contact me.
That's good. There could be the chance of her saying: "I
already hired somebody."
Dec. 7 Job expectations: One my
friends did a job interview a couple of weeks ago. She told me that
the place was hiring for $11/hr. However, they had a lot of people
simply not show up for a lot of their shifts. If she shows up for all
of her shifts, she gets a bonus so she would be getting paid like
$13/hr.
That expectation is very low. That reminds me of this
one employee at the Soup place who keeps missing Mon. and Tues. and
doesn't call. We had low expectations of her showing up. My managers
never gave her a bonus for showing up. I have worked a lot of places,
done a lot of interviews, and seen a lot of job ads that don't mention
getting a bonus to show up.
Staffing agencies: I see an ad
for Kijiji. It's a staffing agency looking for recruiters. I have
Google "Staffing agencies suck" and found a blog post dissing them.
Then 64
comments continued to diss it.
I decided to Google "Staffing agencies are good", but I found "Staffing agencies are a joke."
Someone asked a question about them on Yahoo.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Well, they are not a joke entirely. They fill a niche. But they ARE
flesh peddlers, so they must keep their dbase of applicants at maximum
in order to respond to client requests for bodies.
Soooo, sometimes they run 'blind' ads to get folks to apply or send in resumes even tho the job is already filled.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006050110873
I Google search it and I get more things that automatically pop up: "Staffing agencies are a waste of time" and "are bull---."
Dec.
10: Today was different. I went to work 30 min earlier, and for the
first time, worked an entire shift at this other department because they
need 1 more person. I have worked there before when they needed me,
but it's usually I'm at the restaurant. Then the other department calls
me over and I either do something that lasts 10min. or an hr.
Dec.
12: It's been a week, and the energy company didn't contact me after
the interview. That's fine. When I learned I would have to be
constantly recruiting people for this job, I knew it was going to be
hard. You work so hard, and all these people who
come into the job won't last long, and will quit because door-to-door
sales are hard.
The recruiter position is like finding a needle
in a haystack. You're trying to find that one applicant who will do well
in sales.
In person: I passed out my resume in person to
this place. It said they only will take a resume in person. It was
easy to get there. I think there is good job security there because of
the location and the need for it. They will do interviews in 2 weeks.
Lateral move:
I told my friend that she made a lateral move. She still works at the
restaurant, like one or two shifts a week. She got another restaurant
job that's full-time. I told her as long as she's happy, that's all
that
matters.
Dec. 18 Intense interview: I did another job
interview. I was told it was going to be an 1hr long, but it was
20min. The interviewer was intense. She was direct and seemed to be
kind of attacking me by asking: "Why do you want to work here judging
from your education?" I have had an interview start off like that with a
medical office assistant position.
Her look and her tone of voice kind of reminded me of Jane Kaczmarek (Lois from Malcolm in the Middle).
I don't mean to diss her. She was nice by saying that's good that I
had my blogs and my writing published on websites. She said my answer
was good when she gave me a situation that would occur at work.
She did ask the questions of: "Where do you see yourself 5 yrs from now?" I said I wanted a office
career.
Phone interview: I got home and then did a phone interview for another company.
The perfect job interview:
This is an article I got through Linked In. #1 be likable is a basic.
I didn't know about "#4 Set a hook." It's something that stands out
about your like: "Hooks make you memorable and create an anchor for
interviewers to remember you by -- and being memorable is
everything."
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121121171031-20017018-the-perfect-job-interview-in-8-simple-steps?trk=eml-mktg-top12-f-1218-p5
Sick: I've been sick for the past 5 days, but I keep going to work. It's not so bad that I can hardly walk. I can function.
Student loans:
Hazel Taylor sent me this article "8 Ways to Avoid taking out Student
Loans." The tips are pretty basic like get a scholarship. You don't
have to get really good grades or be a athlete. I was told in gr. 12
from my Eng. teacher that there was a student who got his entire tuition
paid off due to scholarships. There are lots of scholarships that
people don't know about, so they don't apply. So research.
Work
(but don't let it affect your grades), save up, get help from your
family, and live frugally. I'm all about living frugally because we
really can do without a lot of
things that we don't need.
http://www.onlineclasses.org/2012/07/15/8-ways-to-avoid-taking-out-student-loans/ |
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