How to get a job (or not)

[Birdjaguar]

Face to face interviews are more difficult and could be expensive. Skype? Understanding the "local" job market in a distant city is more difficult. It is easier to find entry level jobs where you live rather than long distance.

 

[GenMarshall]

Face to face interviews are more difficult and could be expensive.

Depends. If it's in Rhode Island or New York (Long Island), it's not that difficult. At most a few hours drive on 95 (or a ferry hop across the sound). In a state like North Carolina or New Jersey a bit challenging but still cheap enough for a day's travel. But something like a job in the Pacific states would be more difficult and expensive and I don't intend on moving to the west coast. I'm sort of keeping my focus on the east coast of the US.

It is easier to find entry level jobs where you live rather than long distance.

That, I'd dispute since there aren't that many entry level in my area. I just have a gut feeling that I'd find better opportunities outside my state.

 

[Hygro]

Is North Dakota still booming on their fossil fuel find? A couple years ago it was easy high 5 and low 6 figure incomes for a surprising number of folks. By easy I meant easy to get hired, not easy work

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yes they are still high on hydrocarbons. Of course, the cost of living near oil fields has shot through the roof ($20 burgers at McD's!) and there is a massive housing crisis but other than that, things are peachy.

 

[Hygro]

Yes they are still high on hydrocarbons. Of course, the cost of living near oil fields has shot through the roof ($20 burgers at McD's!) and there is a massive housing crisis but other than that, things are peachy.

So then the trick is to open restaurants near the field and cut deals with suppliers. Seriously if I can buy a McD's for an 8x markup, then I can figure out a way to sell a McHygro burger for a 4x markup, taking the costumers and pocketing the difference.


In Californian public schools we teach the gold rush. What we teach is that first there was gold, then there were miners mining the gold, and merchants who sold supplies to the miners for a huge profit. The lesson my 4th grade self was "Be the merchant in the gold rush".

But even if you're a miner with all those inflated prices around you, if you can manage to save just a littttttle bit, you're saving a lot of money that you can take back with you to the land of cheaper prices (aka home).

 

[Birdjaguar]

The key is to know what kind of job you are looking for. Once you know that, then you can figure where those kinds of jobs are.

 

[Hygro]

The key is to know what kind of job you are looking for. Once you know that, then you can figure where those kinds of jobs are.

Which takes some trial and error. It takes not caring what others want for themselves or caring what other people call "cool" in the moment they call it cool. It takes knowing yourself, the kind of person you are when you aren't thinking about things.

I imagine the logic works even better for finding a mate.

 

[Zelig]

Yes they are still high on hydrocarbons. Of course, the cost of living near oil fields has shot through the roof ($20 burgers at McD's!) and there is a massive housing crisis but other than that, things are peachy.

I'm pretty doubtful burgers are actually that price, we've got similar areas here from oil with nothing close to $20 burgers, and I couldn't find anything corroborating online.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Which takes some trial and error. It takes not caring what others want for themselves or caring what other people call "cool" in the moment they call it cool. It takes knowing yourself, the kind of person you are when you aren't thinking about things.

I imagine the logic works even better for finding a mate.

Yes, what you posted has the ring of truth.

As for a job; if the goal is to find a job to get one started on a lifetime of work, knowing what you aren't willing to do is useful too. I think CG needs to find a city/region that has lots of different jobs suited to his generalist and inexperienced self (Austin??). He needs to go where the opportunities are.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Any idea about how you go about applying to those Miner jobs, Hygro?

 

[sophie]

Any idea about how you go about applying to those Miner jobs, Hygro?

Have gold pan, will travel.

Anybody got a pair of Levi's I can borrow?

 

[Hygro]

Any idea about how you go about applying to those Miner jobs, Hygro?

Nope. I'd bring an eager, serious attitude and road trip my way up and wing it if I were gonna do it. After doing some Forum Style Google Fu.

Edit: I guess Owen said it first. One post, that's all I had to scroll to lol.

 

[Zelig]

Any idea about how you go about applying to those Miner jobs, Hygro?

Have first aid and H2S, be local, wear a tie.

 

[sophie]

Well you missed the boat on the gold rush, but there's still plenty of demand for labor down in them ole' Quicksilver mines:

 

[Birdjaguar]

Any idea about how you go about applying to those Miner jobs, Hygro?

Start Here or somewhere nearby:

http://www.ndoiljobs.com/

 

[Commodore]

I have not gotten an interview in ages, what am I doing wrong? I sent resumes and apply online.

Also, my first question on this thread apperently went unnoticed.

I had the same problem as you until my veteran's representative showed me a little trick that got me a bunch of interviews.

Basically, your resume is probably being rejected by whatever software the company is using to screen resumes. This software compares the words in your resume to the words in the job description and scores your resume based on that. If your resume doesn't meet a certain score the software rejects it before it is even seen by a human. So my vet rep told me to start pasting the job description into my resume and change the font color to white so when a human sees it they don't notice what you did. That way, the software will score you high enough so your resume doesn't get rejected and will increase your chance of getting an interview because an actual human will see your resume. Ever since I started doing that little trick, my ratio of applications submitted to interviews has increased significantly. In fact, using that trick is how I landed my current job.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Awesome tactic!!!

 

[madviking]

yea commodore that's amazing.

 

[Commodore]

Hey the odds are already stacked against the potential job seeker in this economy, so any edge you can give yourself is fair game in my book.

 

[Harv]

In Californian public schools we teach the gold rush. What we teach is that first there was gold, then there were miners mining the gold, and merchants who sold supplies to the miners for a huge profit. The lesson my 4th grade self was "Be the merchant in the gold rush".

More specifically, be a merchant of shovels and pickaxes, right? Didn't somebody want to start an enterprise making tents for the same miners, but his material was completely unsuitable for making tents, so he made pants instead.

Lurked this discussion every once in a while...... I am a job hopper, myself. I got my first leads and starts through people I already knew. I have not gone through enough pages of discussion to fully understand the current situation.