Let me please recount for you the events in applying for a job I saw online yesterday: > I find the job on an employment website.> I print the job description out. > I go to the company’s website and find the job opening in the ‘Careers’ section.> I try…
I am tired today. Tired of the daily grind of job searching and trying to not panic and still have a life. Some days I just can’t bear sitting here going through employment and corporate sites but I really have no choice, I must keep searching. I’ve found a few…
I am doing the job search on Sunday afternoon and I always search on the entire state of Pennsylvania, instead of my zip code, as to not limit myself. I’m close to Philadelphia and Allentown and points in between and around and don’t want to miss any opportunities. So I’m…
I read a book recently, fiction, about Hollywood. It got me to thinking how actors and actresses stereotypically work as waiters and waitresses, respectively, until they get their “big break”. It used to be that acting was one of the hardest professions to break into. Until now. Now, ANY profession…
I’ve been thinking alot about the question posed by Robert Schuller: What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? There are so many things really. I would write for a living. I would open my own business. I would walk into companies I want to…
I didn’t get the job I had two interviews for. I honestly didn’t want it, but I needed it. I didn’t get a chance at the job for the company I would love to work for. The Corn Stalking (click HERE) apparently didn’t help. At all. The San Francisco Giants…
I had a phone interview this afternoon and it went well, but the salary is about half of what I was making when I lost my job in 2007. It really is amazing what a company expects as far as the responsibilities of the position and the salary they are…
I went downstairs, saw the answering machine light blinking, hit “PLAY” expecting to hear yet another political campaign call and there it was: “Yes, good afternoon, I’m calling for Sister Rain. Sister, this is Jane Doe calling from Acme. You applied with us last week for a Marketing position and…
It’s a gray but unusually warm day here for Fall in Pennsylvania. Today I may have crossed a line in the job search world but it’s too late now. I mentioned the other day there is a company I would love to work for who has an opening that fits…
