A couple of pet peeves while looking for a job
I won't get into the whole "I can't find a job and I'm pissed" thing, but I thought I would share some of those little nuances that really bring frustration in the whole search process. Some of the first ones we already know:
1. You have too much experience or education to work here.
So, in other words, at some point I ended up with so much experience and education that I must now crawl into a gutter, starve and then die. Seems kind of wrong. But that's just me, and I've got too much education, so that probably means I'm wrong.
2. The impossible request routine.
I love this one actually because it's just so wrong in so many ways. I was reading a job ad on Craigslist for someone with these words: Include a few sentences at the top as to why you feel you would be a good fit for our company. The only problem? There's no information in the ad whatsoever that even hints anything about the company. So, I'm thinking my response should be: "I really think I'm a good fit for your company because I'm very vague about myself, constantly living in a state of ambiguity so that no one knows anything about me. I think I would fit right in with you all mysterious people and your unknown company."
3. The Desire for Entry Level People Who Already Have Had the Job:
Yeah, I'm not kidding. What this category means is that they advertise for an entry level person to join their company. Then you open up the ad, read it and discover that what they're looking for is someone who has at least five or six years of previous experience already doing the exact same job. What part of "ENTRY LEVEL" does five or six years of previous experience cover? My favorite of this category was when Homeland Security first launched, and there was an ad for someone to fill a position that had NEVER existed before, but wanted five years previous experience in that exact same position. I mean, NO ONE ON EARTH ever had that position before. I wonder who lied his way through that interview with a straight face saying, "Oh yeah, I did this job before, even though it didn't exist, and has just been invented for the first time." It's like going back to Ma Bell back in the early days of telephones and saying that you are an expert at videoconferencing.
Okay, enough of my gripe for today. I'll go sleep off the rest of the night in this gutter I just found. It's my gutter. Everyone else stay away!
Stumble It!
1. You have too much experience or education to work here.
So, in other words, at some point I ended up with so much experience and education that I must now crawl into a gutter, starve and then die. Seems kind of wrong. But that's just me, and I've got too much education, so that probably means I'm wrong.
2. The impossible request routine.
I love this one actually because it's just so wrong in so many ways. I was reading a job ad on Craigslist for someone with these words: Include a few sentences at the top as to why you feel you would be a good fit for our company. The only problem? There's no information in the ad whatsoever that even hints anything about the company. So, I'm thinking my response should be: "I really think I'm a good fit for your company because I'm very vague about myself, constantly living in a state of ambiguity so that no one knows anything about me. I think I would fit right in with you all mysterious people and your unknown company."
3. The Desire for Entry Level People Who Already Have Had the Job:
Yeah, I'm not kidding. What this category means is that they advertise for an entry level person to join their company. Then you open up the ad, read it and discover that what they're looking for is someone who has at least five or six years of previous experience already doing the exact same job. What part of "ENTRY LEVEL" does five or six years of previous experience cover? My favorite of this category was when Homeland Security first launched, and there was an ad for someone to fill a position that had NEVER existed before, but wanted five years previous experience in that exact same position. I mean, NO ONE ON EARTH ever had that position before. I wonder who lied his way through that interview with a straight face saying, "Oh yeah, I did this job before, even though it didn't exist, and has just been invented for the first time." It's like going back to Ma Bell back in the early days of telephones and saying that you are an expert at videoconferencing.
Okay, enough of my gripe for today. I'll go sleep off the rest of the night in this gutter I just found. It's my gutter. Everyone else stay away!
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Stumble It!
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