The Glade 4.0

...yeah. Applied for my old job since a vacancy opened up. (The position I held for 13 months until I had to leave after multiple family deaths.) I left on good terms and so I had no qualms about putting in my resume when the position opened up a few weeks ago.

Well, I found out today that I am not qualified enough for my old job...isn't that a riot? Apparently, my unrelated BA and my 13 months experience in that position do not rival a Masters in Computer Science or the 3 years of experience in a lateral position within the University....their applicant pool was saturated with very qualified applicants.

I couldn't even get my old job back. How sad am I? :'(

Called the company I interviewed with last Friday and they are still conducting interviews for that position.....someone will call me after they talk to the HR manager (who was, surprise, in an interview) and give me a rough estimate of the time frame I might expect before I hear something. Basically, don't hold your breath.

Other than when I was a single mom in college and trying to find part-time jobs that fit my schedule, I have NEVER had trouble getting hired. Always had plenty of options and offers. This time around I've applied for literally dozens of jobs and only gotten one call back and one interview and it doesn't look promising.



I iz sad. I can't have babies, I can't have a job, and I can't haz chzburger neither. :'(

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

On the bright side, it's not that you're unqualified for your job, it's that the economy's so shitty that lots of overqualified people want it, too.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

LK, you can have my cheeseburger. And I'll get you another if you would like.

I can't help with the other two, though.

1. Nitefox would kill me.
2. I am not a job recruiter.

Smile, life will find a way for you.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I'm smiling through my tears. Hard to throw a pity party when you're around, Foamy.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Any time you need a smile, Katie, lemme know. I got plenty.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Thanks, buddy.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I can't even get a job delivering pizzas at Pizza Hut. Don't feel too bad about the job part.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

lol, neither can I, Raltar! Because we only have one vehicle!! Oh man...what are we gonna do??

Khross was right....Bachelor's degrees are becoming about as worthless as a GED when it comes to competing in the job market...pretty soon we're all gonna need graduate degrees just to make sandwiches.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Nope. They won't hire you because you're 'overqualified'. Subway turned me down.

See, thats retarded! I'm "over-qualified" for many jobs, yet the ones that I'm qualified for I am getting beat out of by people with better qualifications! Gah!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I keep telling myself that the reason I'm not getting hired is because of my credit problem(defaulting on your student loans apparently ruins your credit. Who knew?) But if that is true, then I'm really ****. Because if they won't hire me because of credit issues, then I can't get a job to fix those credit issues. And I can't fix credit issues without a job to start paying off my debt, but I can't get hired because of it. Vicious circle that makes me want to crawl into a hole and die or something.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I was under the impression that your credit score only comes into play if you are applying for work at a financial institution like a bank?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I've had several businesses tell me upfront that I wouldn't be hired if I had credit problems. Some were just retail stores, but others I understand like the payday loan place I applied to. I wouldn't expect them to hire me with my credit as it is.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Nah. Lots of places use it as a gauge for personal responsibility, and most any position that has you handling cash will look into it, too.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Just got off the phone with the people that interviewed me on Friday...they said they will be interviewing for this position for at least 2 more weeks and after that they would "go from there."
What does that even mean??

I need a job like yesterday. *thbbbbt*

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

You drew the wrong conclusion from Khross. Society insists that people get a Bachelor's degree for jobs that in no way, shape, or form require a Bachelor's degree. Khross also regularly points out that the most common degree among CEOs is English.

Who here thinks there is something about an English degree that lends itself to running a business? Why not a degree in, oh, business instead? Perhaps a degree in economics? Why would English be the most common? The reason is because English is a chump degree that leaves the business-savvy individual plenty of time for other things, such as getting started on the business they plan to run later in life. The English degree has nothing at all to do with their job, and they didn't get a degree to meet some sort of qualification to hold the job they wanted. College was an avenue to meet people, make associations, and form contacts with other people who had either the money or the talent to go to a four-year university.

Here's another statistic for you. The most common Bachelor's degree among engineers in the United States military is history. The study of history does not lend itself particularly well to the design of missile systems, or any other military application of technology. The reason is because the Department of Defense uses your GPA to determine who they award scholarships to for graduate programs at schools like West Point and Annapolis. Since engineering is hard, our GPAs end up lower than people who major in humanities programs.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Give me a statistic on Bachelor's degrees in Spanish. Aside from teaching, what are they all doing? Making sammiches? I need to know what my people are doing!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Not to derail the thread, but.. /facepalm

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Electrical engineering is the way to go. It's like impossible to not find a job in this field. Basically you're qualified for everything remotely involving electronics or computers.

Unfortunately because Spanish is so common in the US it's not much help. Have you considered taking Chinese? There's a huge job market for level 3 translation/interpreters atm, and they are paying in the mid 6 digit range.

If you go the language route, you'll definitely be out of a job in 15 years when computers do all the work for you.

Grrrrr!!
Did you know that there are phishers out there preying on people seeking employment? How suckish!

Got an email today from a fake company starting out with "We have reviewed your resume and would like to hire you" and then just now I got a phone call from an automated system saying "We have received your resume and believe you would be a good fit for our company...to schedule an interview, press 1"...so I pressed 1...."please enter your zip code"...so I entered my zip code...."please say your name" so I said my name....then I was on hold for 5 minutes....then I got "the person you are trying to reach is unavailable, please leave a message *BEEEEEEEEEEP*"

*sigh*

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Not necessarily, business' who do international deals would hire level 3 interpretors (same time translation as they are speaking kinda thingy) who are hot and look good in a suit, than a black box which may not pick up different dialects and speach tones.
Unfortunately computers have yet evolved enough AI to detect sacasm and translate accordingly.

Considering the demand for Spanish interpretation I see every day at the hospital that I work at in Arizona, I'd have to disagree, Lydiaa. There are several Spanish interpreters retained on staff around the clock, and they still aren't enough to satisfy demand. We also have a webcam based service we use that focuses on the 3 most commonly encountered languages we run across here...Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean iirc. That company has all their interpreters based in Washington state. And then we also use special interpreter phones that can be used for other languages...but overwhelmingly they tend to be used for Spanish, because the on staff Spanish interpreter is too busy, and someone else is using the webcam-enabled computer when someone needs an interpreter.

But I'm thinking that there isn't quite the demand for Spanish in Mississippi just yet. It's probably a bit hard to find a non-teaching foreign language job without being in a large multicultural metropolitan city thats not in a border area, no matter what the language is.

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She's living in the wrong part of the country to see a high demand for Mexican Spanish interpreters. Southern California has a high demand, Northern California a moderate demand. Texas, Arizona and New Mexico are pretty high demand IIRC.

East Coast, they want people who understand Cuban and Puerto Rican dialects more.

Yes, there is a difference.

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