Funny Job Application by a Yorkie

The Hiring manager should have had a sense of humor and done something about this situation, at least attempted to get the girls actual resume and cover letter.

Somehow i am not surprised that this happened to a York student.

Nevertheless this made me smile

here's her blog but i imagine she has way more visitors than me at this point

http://buenastardis.tumblr.com/post/26600983066/jesus-christ-i-accidentally-sent-my-potential

Cool, you graduated, but your dream job is not there

It means that you are one of the 300,000 other lucky new graduates with minty fresh diploma looking for work on the job market. Add to that the number of the unemployed people and a few thousand of people looking to change their job and you have your competitors of the job search marathon. Some are holding out for that perfect job that you thought you would be doing after school. Yep those are the new grads like you.

Hate to break it to you but it’s simply not there.

Why?

1.     You don’t have experience for your dream job.

The job may physically be there but don’t let that fool you, for you it does not exist. You simply have no idea how much time it would take for you to practice to become proficient enough in that job to be considered competent.  You need to pick up some practical skill along the way to do well in that job with minimal training.

2.     Your dream job is way too popular

Face it, really nice jobs are usually in high demand. They have sought after titles, pay and benefits. So they have plenty of people to choose from. What makes you think they would choose you?

3.     You don’t know what it is

Your dream job is defined right now by your assumptions of what the job entails. You don’t know what you like yet because you don’t have the complete idea of what is done during the day. You don’t know if you like the industry and so on and so forth.

It’s not all spoiled milk and eggs however.                                          What do you have?

1.     flexibility to move for work

You just finished school, and presumably looking to move out, so you should be super mobile and be open to move anywhere for work. Do you know that it’s easier to get a job in provinces that have employment boom like Alberta, and Saskatchewan?

2.     clean slate and opportunity to find a job in any field

Most entry level jobs don’t require you to have prior experience within the industry which means you can choose any industry you think you like. And you can switch easily if you don’t like it. It’s not going to kill you.

3.     Tenacity

Roll up them sleeves, and put in work. It’s 4^th quarter mentality all day everyday.

Underemployment just became more popular

How Employment Insurance changes will affect your job search | CanadianBusiness.com

Recent changes to EI eligibility made it compulsory for people to seek low-paying jobs aka McJobs before filing for unemployment benefits. This is the wheel that new Graduates often get stuck in: “Part-time job or 2 part-time jobs to offset the amount of hours that was available to you on one job. “ This may severely slow down the suitable job search for the candidate and result in a longer professional work break between jobs, which increases the risk of having to change career-path, regardless of how unwelcome it may be.

This is highly alarming, as I would expect to have some kind of benefit after I pay for EI throughout my employed period. Looking at this policy change in combination with the abolishment of the mandatory retirement, I am becoming concerned about the financial ability of the government to pay what they “owe” to the working people. You pay for what you don’t get it’s becoming like yet another insurance scam – auto, extended warranty and now employment insurances.  

If this was not the push to treat oneself like a business I don’t know what would do it. I feel like the most appropriate strategy in this job market is to take on finite employment obligations like contracts and always stay looking for the next opportunity, or even open up your own business/practice.

Dealing with regret >= Accepting regret

Let's examine the chart that was presented during the presentation that draws things that we regret the most. Focus on education and career in the survey results that were presented in this video indicate a common viewpoint of priorities that are shared by the people of the society. Certainly this is correlated to the cultural dimensions of North American people, and their protestant work ethic. This is something that we cannot escape and we will inevitable place more importance on these values, statistically speaking.

When talking about regret one has to have a reference point of comparison of their actions. Often if not always this comparison is found in the outside world, which is explained by cultural tendencies, or dimensions. For example, I regret not doing this major at school because it is in demand now, or because the one that I have is not sufficient or useful for me, both of which make me less competitive in the job market and competitiveness is highly valued in North American culture. 

I also believe that acceptance of regret can be used as a form of excuse for lack of action. Fact of the matter is bad decisions should be examined and if you are blessed enough to commit enough of them you can determine a pattern in the motivations and use that as a tool to understand yourself and turn that perceived weakness into your strength.

For example, I have discovered a while back that I have this tendency to doodle things when I ought to be focusing on the lecture that is being presented to me. Having to rely on these sporadic and rather useless notes caused plenty of regret. So I read up on note taking techniques and realized that perhaps I have a tendency to think visually, which later on I have included into my study methods. So when taking notes I draw plenty of dependency charts, which actually helped me significantly, furthermore when preparing for exams I would draw these Idea maps to cover the material that I had to memorize and that also helped me immensely.

My point is, things that you regret for the most part are culture driven, rather than merely accepting things as they happened everything you do can be turned into an opportunity to explore yourself, which in turn is an opportunity to better yourself. 

History of Resume

http://mashable.com/2011/09/04/history-of-the-resume/

Get your resume graded

I came across this web tool today that automatically grades your resume. This is an interesting service as it appears to be based on an algorithm that is developed with the input from hiring managers. The great thing about this tool is that after you put your resume through the algorithm it gives you 1 tip to improve your resume. That's great for people that have been searching for a job and want to give a touch up to their resume before sending out another batch. It's a free service and it doesn't ask you for any information (you are already giving them a wealth of it), yet it is asking you if you want to be contacted. Overall a fun little tool that I would recommend people.

http://rezscore.com/

HR Job Search Week 1

My exams have finally came to an end, which means that I have to find a place of employment. During the first week of the job search I applied to 10 jobs online, which were posted on various sites. They were all entry level HR jobs. I understand that the success rate for this kind of job searching method is pretty low, and that there must be plenty of jobs open that are not posted on the mediums that I have checked.
Next week my plan is to start working smarter, I will still sites like indeed.ca and simplyhired.ca, but will also target some companies that I am interested in. I feel like there's a lot of competition out there right now and I can not let them outwork me.
Target for applications next week 20.