Tips To Make Your Job Less Demeaning, Torturous

That'd be handy.

In a previous life, I worked for CareerBuilder. All of those companies on that list have paid a pretty penny to be on there.

Notice how when you click on any of them, it takes you to their CareerBuilder employer homepage.

I wish job sites would stop publishing "advice" like that. If you're dumb enough to use skank6969@hotmail.com on your resume then PLEASE do it. Job search Darwinism.

I don't know . If every single job hunter read this and actually did this what would you do as the applicant and employer .

I've learned many an HR/employer can justify just about any choice they make unless you have THE skill set or resume they were looking for . I've lost jobs by so much as CONTINUING a conversation on how I would get paid such as prior experience etc . It wasn't even the topic was dropped . I said as long as I get somekind of credit for my experience and the interview went down the toilet right then and there . After talking to several others who went through the samething I didn't feel so bad - just ticked .

But that is A sticking point with all other things being equal-money . If you made more in your previous job they say things like you'll leave quickly or I don't think you'll make enough here . On the other hand even with experience but without a bunch of certifications and courses you're just as done .

And these HRs profile people more than they like to admit . Many jobs want you to LOOK the part all the way .

Keep applying & sending resumes no matter what - without applications in the burner you don't even have a possibility of getting hired or an interview .

Prime example of why companies are so fucked up these days. Hard working , no bullshit ,think outside the box go getters don't stand a chance of making it through the hiring "process". HR people who will never come within light years of the work being hired for are doing the hiring for most jobs. The interview/courtship thing is just theatre designed to justify some make-work jobs in HR. That is why the real talented people either work for themselves (and make real money while running rings around the big boys ,especially in technology) or tell the political games players to fuck off and take their skills elsewhere.

Steve Jobs or Bill Gates would probably never get a second interview at the companies that they founded.

Gee, and here I thought the whole hiring process was intended, right from the start, to be demoralizing and torturous. How dare CareerBuilder interfere with their own clients' efforts to keep it that way?

@SabrinaFaire: You may get my email spammed, you may increase the competition, but I am still the most qualified skank.

@Snarkysnake: sounds about right . I've applied for jobs where it was implied that recite what was in the job description/requirements to the letter and yet most say keep a resume and applications short but thorough . But the HR/S in charge at this time literally wanted you to recite the job description and yet management who knew the job & knew what your experience was worth. Terminology was a big thing .

CareerBuilder (call it CareerKiller) and Craigslist are the pits. If someone could invent a better "jobs" website, they would make millions. It seems now days, unlike the past, a company wants the "perfect" employee--especially in the tech field with hundreds of skill sets. One skill out and application or resume are tossed. Character & work ethic mean nothing.

@YourTechSupport: Yeah, really. I can't sift through the list of crap to actually FIND the tips.

@u1itn0w2day:
Yah, that can be frustrating!
In my line of work we have a very, very small and specialized community, so word of mouth and writing samples and so forth get me farther than my C.V.

@djkatscan: Ok, glad I'm not the only one unable to find the linked article--even after temporarily allowing Javascript. And would "beerfreak80@email.com" really be a bad address to use if you were applying for a QC job at Anheuser Busch?

Do companies who hire people off CareerBuilder and similar sites like what they get? I'd like to see research on this. Job sites and dating sites seem to be the same thing: Promising something they can't deliver (the perfect person for your needs) and charging a lot of money. Plus they lead you on to get you to keep paying.

@exploded: Not to mention all the spam I receive in the email account I opened SOLELY for my Careerbuilder account. I get offers for everything from allowing a company to deposit Euros in my account and then take out dollars when the currencies fluctuate (and pay me $5000 a month for it) to jobs promising to pay me up to $10,000 a month to stay home and scratch my ballz.

I'm yet to get a legitimate email from a Careerbuilder employer.

One of the jobs listed is awful. All this, for $12 an hour:

"A typical day for our graphic artists is spent designing ads on the computer, talking on the phone to customers, faxing proofs to customers, and printing out artwork for the production department.

In addition our graphic artists are expected to perform general office duties such as answering phones and helping with customer service calls."

If you're a professional, I found during my job search that the ONLY website to provide REAL jobs were the professional association sites that listed jobs.

In my case it was the NCMA, and the ONLY call-backs I got were from job postings I replied to from it.

The other really helpful site I used was salary.com, which helped me (along with the NCMA website) determine what I should be paid. Since I was coming from the military, this actually WAS a real issue for me.

Another great tool, though, that I found, was Indeed.com, which is what I tell all my Job-Hunting family members to visit, since it lists EVERY job listing out there, including Federal and State jobs.

I think it's Yahoo and MSN that frequently have stories like the 10 best jobs over 40K a year or 10 jobs that make a 100K a year . But this is misleading because they fail to mention alot of the experience training , certifications and schooling required . They also fail to mention conditions in YOUR job market .

It's like top 40 radio for job hunters .

@PinkBox:

Read: small company, run by cheapskates.

@RStui:

Thanks, I'm going to forward this post to a job-hunting friend of mine. :)

@HogwartsAlum: I've actually seen that same job posted again and again on Craigslist for a few months now. Obviously no one is biting! You'd think they'd learn.

@PinkBox:

LOL our company hired a part-time marketing person when the full-time one left. He has to answer the phone when I'm at lunch.

Maybe I should tell him they're posting his job!

@PinkBox: Or they are biting and quitting after one week.

@Snarkysnake: dead on.

also why the country's going down the tubes. . . .