Job search rant...

[1756GR2]

(This isn't directed at you at ALL, so please don't take it that way)

Nope, no worry. And I had hoped you would realize I was licking my own personal wounds. Thanks for that. I know incredibly impressive very young folk who I fervently support, and some totally useless attitude-inflated ones of my age. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush.

Heh - my area wants younger, your area wants older, maybe we're just in the wrong place at the wrong age?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

(This isn't directed at you at ALL, so please don't take it that way) As part of that "age group", I'm sick of being automatically put in that category. Yes, I'm young. I'm almost 24, but I look maybe 20 when I'm in full professional dress. However, I'm more professional than a lot of people I encounter who are twice my age. I'm smart, willing to do whatever, take initiative, and follow through. It's also annoying when something says "5 years of experience doing xyz", but I'm sure I could do the job. Just because I'm young doesn't mean I'm not a capable worker.

From what little I know about you, you have nothing to worry about in that department. Trust me.

Seriously, I wonder how the economy is (supposedly) getting better when the unemployment rate continues to climb. Kinda makes you wonder when the first wave of laid-off workers have their unemployment run out at the end of September.

Some say employment is one of the last things to recover from a recession. Companies hold off on hiring until they see that the economy really is getting better.

Meanwhile, at the fantabulous clearance swamp, it's getting to be time for management to figure out their hiring needs for the fall after some of the kids go away to college, and to start thinking about seasonal hiring for You Know What. Word is they're not going to replace many of them. Sales have sucked and they don't have enough hours for the people they have now. And normally we hire anywhere from 30-40 people for You Know What; I bet that number goes way down for this year as well.

[FuzzyKitten99]

I took Entrepreneurship for my Capstone. Need a finance person?

Well actually I plan on hiring my boyfriend for that. He was a stock broker for many years before his last position as Director for the project managment office for the IT department. He worked for Ameriprise (fka American Express Financial Advisors).

However I will be looking for other financial experts for other needs, so I will let you know!

[gremcint]

Overqualified: has all of the qualifications for a job and then some.

If you hire someone who is overqualified, it will save you money in a lot of cases because your need CHANGE, and you now have someone who can possibly fill the new needs or makes it easier to juggle things around but if you go with someone who either meets the requirements exactly or doesn't meet them and that person will only be able to do the one thing you initially hired him for and require a lot more training to be able to do anything else.

Now along those lines you get someone who doesn't meet all of the requirements but meets most of them and has skills beyond that example is you ask for 5 programming languages and he knows 4 of those and several others in addition to that he would be a good choice because like I said your needs change.

[JLRodgers]

I always have hated the "overqualified" word for one main reason: really, everyone is overqualified if they even have what they list as required -- because you almost always have more experience than a position requires in something. The only time a person isn't, is the first job they ever have (and that assumes they never worked for their family).

If a place asks for 20 years MS software experience (and nothing else), and you've got it, but you've also played around with any non-MS program - you're technically "overqualified"



Of course I really hate it because I hear the stupid "overqualified" thing more times than not -- unless I'm seeking positions in a completely unrelated field (well, then too, but not "overqualified" for that industry, just in general).

[evilminion007]

I feel your pain....the economy due suck.......I hope you find one soon~~!! keep your head high and update us if you get a job!!