Job Prospects
I guess most of you know that my Favorite Job in the World. The one where I went out my door, walked four houses down the street, crossed the street and went in the door at work is no more. On June 10 of 2013, I walked in the door and upstairs to my office and my boss told me that he was closing Architectural Reuse Company forever.
Since then, my job search has been less than stellar. A lot of applications, a lot of not getting calls back, a couple of chats with bosses as turning in applications, and no call back. One formal job interview that resulted from a job fair, which was for a job I really wanted. One call back from that job to tell me that I had not been selected, but that they liked me well enough to hold onto my info in case they did have another opening. Honestly, if that job comes up, I'll be very tempted to quit whatever job I have so that I can take it.
I had a successful phone interview with another company, which has great benefits, and not so stellar pay (but it's close to what I was making before and I had no benefits at all), which the interviewer said put me in the 3rd round, in which I was to schedule my on site interview, and that I should do it before September 23 so they could get me in the class that starts on that day. Man oh man! What a pain that turned out to be. They couldn't tell me when any interviews would be posted, just that I should log in every day between 8 and 10 am and see if any are posted, and to make sure I checked often, because if they were, they would be gone very quickly. I'm hoping that the starting pay is just during training and I can expect a raise after I go live on the floor. Even better to get another raise after 90 days. All questions to be asked at the interview.
Well, at last after almost a month trying, I finally was able to schedule myself an appointment for my on site interview. Man, I have never heard of anyone having to do that to get an interview, and I must wonder why they have their managers post times Online and wait to see who has the patience to log in day after day after day to schedule an appointment. Why not just give the managers the top scoring candidates and have them spend that few minutes calling them to schedule? It seems like they risk losing the best candidates, who are likely to move on to other jobs before they can ever schedule an appointment.
Anyway, as long as I succeed at this interview, then I was told that a class is starting on September 23rd, which the phone interviewer indicated he wanted to get me in for. I take that to mean that the on site is just a formality to make sure I'm not an axe murderer or anything. I hope that class isn't already filled up. If it is, then I'll have to probably wait another month to start.
At any rate, this is my general call out for well wishing for my interview on Wednesday. I'm still in mourning for my nice comfy job at ARC, but I'm ready to have a job again and I admit that immediate benefits will be nice.
Since then, my job search has been less than stellar. A lot of applications, a lot of not getting calls back, a couple of chats with bosses as turning in applications, and no call back. One formal job interview that resulted from a job fair, which was for a job I really wanted. One call back from that job to tell me that I had not been selected, but that they liked me well enough to hold onto my info in case they did have another opening. Honestly, if that job comes up, I'll be very tempted to quit whatever job I have so that I can take it.
I had a successful phone interview with another company, which has great benefits, and not so stellar pay (but it's close to what I was making before and I had no benefits at all), which the interviewer said put me in the 3rd round, in which I was to schedule my on site interview, and that I should do it before September 23 so they could get me in the class that starts on that day. Man oh man! What a pain that turned out to be. They couldn't tell me when any interviews would be posted, just that I should log in every day between 8 and 10 am and see if any are posted, and to make sure I checked often, because if they were, they would be gone very quickly. I'm hoping that the starting pay is just during training and I can expect a raise after I go live on the floor. Even better to get another raise after 90 days. All questions to be asked at the interview.
Well, at last after almost a month trying, I finally was able to schedule myself an appointment for my on site interview. Man, I have never heard of anyone having to do that to get an interview, and I must wonder why they have their managers post times Online and wait to see who has the patience to log in day after day after day to schedule an appointment. Why not just give the managers the top scoring candidates and have them spend that few minutes calling them to schedule? It seems like they risk losing the best candidates, who are likely to move on to other jobs before they can ever schedule an appointment.
Anyway, as long as I succeed at this interview, then I was told that a class is starting on September 23rd, which the phone interviewer indicated he wanted to get me in for. I take that to mean that the on site is just a formality to make sure I'm not an axe murderer or anything. I hope that class isn't already filled up. If it is, then I'll have to probably wait another month to start.
At any rate, this is my general call out for well wishing for my interview on Wednesday. I'm still in mourning for my nice comfy job at ARC, but I'm ready to have a job again and I admit that immediate benefits will be nice.