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...applications have you had and how many of them have actually led to anything?


I ask this as I had 3 rejections in the last 2 days, which make around 20 or so in the last 2 months and its really starting to piss me off


It's not like I'm unemployed, I am currently working part time (3days a week) at the local indoor go-kart track and i just need a change, and this sort of thing thats going on as I mentioned above is starting to get on my nerves


Just needed to get this of my chest


Reply at will :)
 
5 job applications, 0 jobs, i gave up when i found out i couldn't get paid anyway because of some stupid government regulations. But i'm 16 now so i cn get paid for working, i might apply for something.

STUPID GOVERNMENT!
 
1 app. ->1 int. ->no job (I denyed it)
1 app. ->0 int.
1 app. ->1int. ->Job at Wendy's (worst job ever, I had no idea what anyone was saying!!)
1 app. ->0 int.
1 app. ->i int. ->Current job at Subway (Best job ever)

I always call the place I'm applying at to see if they're hiring.
 
Well, when I was lookign for a job out of university, it didnt matter that I was #1 in my class. What did matter was that I wasnt AA.

As a result, I had more then 15 interviews (some, all-day affairs), and ended up with bubkas.
 
First career job out of uni was very hard. Probably filled out 250 applications, and not a sniff.

Then I registered at an agency. Got an interview within 2 days, hired within 4 days.

When I was leaving that job, I had 4 interviews before I succeeded. Didn't do any applications because I again went through an agency. Since then I've been in full-time employment, although I have transferred companies twice, once through a takeover, once through outsourcing.
 
I only turned in one job application, and I've been working at the place for like 9 months now. I love my job, although I don't plan on turning it into a career, or anything. Took me less than 2-3 months to go from Associate, to Team Leader, and then to Supervisor.
 
In my job they have to hire me wheather they want to or not..I just had to take a 12 hour test with months of preperation and as long as I pass I get paid but I have to pass it every year at a harder level so its like a new job every year....still they dont have a choice wheather or not to hire me if I pass....but they can fire me when ever they want...
 
0....0

Im goin to start applying places really soon though.
 
Usually, I've had a 33% strike ratio. Of course, sometimes I've gone on the interview, thought about it, and decided not to work for that company. Therest have led to semi-sucessful employment.

That is, you get a call back, an interview, and an offer to work. The other 66% of applications went into a black hole.

On one occasion I was so late for the interview that I basically excused myself as soon as I arrived. (The boss had a fairly grim look on her face.) I was stuck in a terrible traffic jam, and took a misguided short-cut in a town I didn't know well...oops.
 
Zero applications. Ever. I rule at getting crappy jobs without ever applying.
 
Actually, it's interesting - I came out of college and got a job instantly on my first application (probably because I was overqualified and didn't know that I could've had a better job making more money elsewhere). I applied for and received a teaching job at the University of Nevada, but it was only because I said I'd work for free, and in my last two auto industry jobs, my employer actually approached me in both cases to try to get me to work for them. So it's worked out well.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
First career job out of uni was very hard. Probably filled out 250 applications, and not a sniff.

Then I registered at an agency. Got an interview within 2 days, hired within 4 days.

When I was leaving that job, I had 4 interviews before I succeeded. Didn't do any applications because I again went through an agency. Since then I've been in full-time employment, although I have transferred companies twice, once through a takeover, once through outsourcing.
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Same here. If you have experience agencies salivate over you. They get paid to place you so they work hard on both of your bahalves. Most recently I was downsized out of my job and was back to work in two weeks through an agency. A lot of companies don't want to be bothered with weeding through the applicants so they hire the agencies. To get the job I started this week I interviewed with three companies, not counting appointments with agencies. One hired someone else, one never got back to me, and one hired me.

So for all those liberals crying about "jobs" I say "yep, I got one easily and quickly. What's the problem now?"
 
1 apllpication.
1 rejection.
 
0 applications... 1 job... i hate my job too(my parents own a place in town here so i had to work there whether i wanted to or not)
 
0 applications, 3 jobs (busboy, fast food, and now roofing). I'm just too lazy to apply anywhere so I wait for the work to come to me. Surprisingly I've been employed for a solid three years now.
 
3 applications
2 interviews
1 job( from 2nd interview 👍 )

Keep looking Clint, you'll get a job if you keep trying and don't give up ;)
 
Originally posted by lotus350


Keep looking Clint, you'll get a job if you keep trying and don't give up ;)
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This is so true. I stayed at my old job for so long thinking it was going to be very hard to find a new one. But when I was forced to look I looked with a vengance.

Day 1 of unemployment: I re-wrote my resume.

Day 2: I applied online to a good 35 jobs and got one call back. This was a Friday. I won't count weekends.

Day 3 (Monday): I met with an agency and set up a few more appointments.

Day 4: Met with a couple more agencies.

Day 5: One agency and one interview.

Day 6: One rejection and one agency.

Day 7: One skills test with my current new employer, one agency appointment, one call to inform me I did well on the skills tests and to set up an interview with the company.

Day 8 (Monday): One interview and one offer.

Day 9: Hang out at home and wait to start new job.

Day 10: Start new job.


For all the people who talk about how there's no jobs and bla bla bla, I am now inclined to believe they are not looking very hard, or expect to just be "given" one.
 
Originally posted by lotus350
Keep looking Clint, you'll get a job if you keep trying and don't give up ;)
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Thanks Kel :) that bought a smile to the face


I didnt say I'd give up, those words aint in the vocabulary, was just getting me down, thats all


Although here it's like these employment agancies specialise in temporary employment, they still get the $$$$ whether a particular person is employed for 6 weeks or 6 years


I'll relate the best rejection i ever got:

Dropped a resume into MARS confectionary and got a call about 3 weeks later to come in for an apptitude test
Sat the test (English, Maths, and Mechanical) got through that without a drama, the first 2 were a piece of cake the third I could've done without but got through it okay
After that we had a group session (there were at lest 60 people sitting the test on the day) the group session was this: 10 different people of different ages, races, backgrounds in a rapidly filling room, we had to decide who was to live and who died, not easy but an interesting thing to do
The next deal was an interview with 2 supervisors who did the usual Q and A thing that happens in this sort of thing, some difficult questions but I felt I aquited myself reasonably
Then there was the medical, once again, piece of cake no drama's whatsoever
I get a letter 2 weeks later saying, I regret to inform you....

That I just couldnt work out, and now because I've been through the whole process, I am now unable to get a job working for MARS (I took another resume in 6 months later and then got a phone call saying what I mentioned earlier and that could "I please not send in another resume)

Pretty good eh?
 
Originally posted by milefile

For all the people who talk about how there's no jobs and bla bla bla, I am now inclined to believe they are not looking very hard, or expect to just be "given" one.
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You're a professional who works in Arizona - I don't think you realise quite how hard it is. Down here (in Tennessee), when these people lose their factories, two things happen: they can't find another factory for a multitude of obvious reasons, and they can't find other work because they're not qualified for anything. Millions - and I mean millions - of Americans have the following problem: after they graduate from high school, they believe that they're going to go on to a trade school or a community college and get a real job, but to earn some money for it, they start working in a factory. After a few union-negotiated wage increases and some promotions, ten or twenty years pass and they have a family and they never did go to college or trade school. When these people lose their jobs because their factory is exported or their company is cutting costs, it is devastating to the country.

A lot of us Americans whine and complain about how politicians we don't like are killing jobs when in fact, it isn't an issue to us. I'm probably the most-better-off-than-I-was-four-years-ago in the entire country; in 2000 I was a graduate student with an eleven-year-old Toyota Cressida, yet I complain about the state of the economy daily when complaining is clearly not my place. But for some people, the state of the economy is the largest factor in their day-to-day lives, and losing a blue-collar job could mean more than just losing a blue-collar job.

For this reason, northeastern Ohio will decide the presidential election - it's the tiebreaker between the suburban, liberal C-cities (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus) and the rural, conservative areas - and it's got more blue-collar jobs per-capita than anywhere else in the United States. Since no Republican has ever won without Ohio, if northeasten Ohio (Akron, Massillon, Canton, Warren, and particularly Youngstown) decides President Bush's economic plans have lost too many of their jobs or his defense plans have killed too many of their sons, he won't be returning in 2005.
 
During the mid-early 90's I was a firearm salesman, and I lost my job thanks to the Brady Bill. Things were crazy for a while, but things settled to a huge slump. I sent out 125 resumés, some out of state, and got only 3 responses. I ended up starting my own business. So, fear not; it could be worse.
 
Well, heading towards my first job I thought working at ACE hardware would be interesting. Got an application, filled it out, and talked to the manager a couple of times. He led me on saying that there was this other guy that wasn't as qualified as I was(I've taken many wood-working courses and do a fair amount of home improvement stuff with my dad) so he was probably not gonna accept his application. Well, he hired that twit instead of me.
So then I kinda just waited for something to happen at Lou Fusz(the dealership my dad works at)...as pressure from my mom built up to get me a job I went to Radio Shack. They're so tech happy they don't have any paper applications, they are all online. So I go home and get online and check out thier application but it was wierd so I was just gonna wait till my mom got home so that we could both go over it. My dad called from work and said that one of the sales managers at Fusz wanted to talk to me about a job since my dad told him that I was very interested. I went in to see the guy, got an application, returned it several days later, and I was in the door a week later. And my job? Mazda/Subaru New Car Prep/detailer. In short, I play around with and in new Mazdas and Subarus. There's no dress code(though after being on the job for nearly 3 months and realizing that people can't tell that I work there, I'm gonna ask for some Fusz shirts, the other 2 preps I work with got the full uniforms but I don't need or want all that), my boss is happy all the time(it's freaky, but nice. He's always in a good mood. Even when the other preps come into work over an hour late or when they go into the service waiting room to watch TV and/or sleep, he doesn't really get pissed. I'm sure eventually he'll blow up and fire them. He likes me, possibly because I love the job and am willing to come in early and when I get bored I offer to do stuff like redo the rows of our inventory, etc), most everyone up there knows or has seen me before I was working there, and the atmosphere is good. I'd go so far as to say that I look forward to going in to work...maybe that's just the Mazda enthusiast in me but it's true. Sometimes I even call my boss and ask him if he needs me to come in. Ohh, did I mention I get to drive new cars around the parking lot and sometimes on the street(RX-8 on the highway...man when I did that I was having a blast. They coulda not paid me during the time I was in the car, I wouldn't have cared, it was so much fun!)?
 
Originally posted by Bollocks#999
Thanks Kel :) that bought a smile to the face


I didnt say I'd give up, those words aint in the vocabulary, was just getting me down, thats all
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Keep smiling Clint, especially in them interviews ;)

Sorry to hear about the MARS job, but think of it as a good experience in interview techniques (sp?) :)
 
true enough, at the time (about 5 years ago) I couldnt believe it
 
Maybe it was because you forgot to say " A mars a day helps you work, rest and play" :D
 
In the past, many apps, few jobs. But the jobs always came when I needed them.
Upon finishing Nursing school, I worked in two nursing homes (one of them twice), 1 hospital, did Home-Health, and now I also work for an agency, that places me in a variety of health care situations. Currently, I do 3 days a week in a hospital, and on some of my off days, I do a shift in the local prison.
With the nursing shortage in the US at present, getting a job isn't that diffcult. Get a job you'll love...well that's a different story.
There are Hospitals out there that are trying to make the conditions conducive to attracting more nursing staff. However, they are the exception not the rule.
 
lotus350
Maybe it was because you forgot to say " A mars a day helps you work, rest and play" :D
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must've been :D
 
During my last unemployment stretch, I sent off over 50 applications and resumes, had less than 10 interviews and had to send my resume to the company that eventually hired me (it was different each time I sent it) 3 times before I got a call back. As of today, I have been with that company for 7 years.

I know it gets discouraging, but you have to keep your spirits high.
 
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