Job Hunt.
It’s been a boring lackluster weekend thus far, which is pitiful since I have two more days off still. Recently our hours at work have been cut in half, so I’m now working three-day workweeks, so you can imagine how the paychecks are looking nowadays. I’ve been looking elsewhere for work but haven’t been successful thus far. It’s only slightly depressing to know that if I got paid to write like I want to, I still wouldn’t be making enough money to sustain all my desires, like more tattoos or a life-size Jason Voorhees to greet people at the door…with a machete.
I did receive two callbacks in the last week though, both on the same day as a matter of fact. The first one hasn’t panned out at all and the call that I received was from a cell phone located in Utah. The message went something like, “we received your resume and wanted to talk to you about a job.” No description of the job, no eagerness to hire me, nothing; just a monotone female voice giving me as little information as possible. I don’t even know if this is a job I actually applied for or if this is just a result of me posting information on Hotjobs. I called back and left a message and haven’t heard a thing since.
Then there was a call I received from American Income Home Life Insurance. I called back and I have to ask, when did businesses stop treating potential employees like human beings? I spoke with a woman who asked me what I did and why I was leaving (which I told her honestly) and then she launched into a two-minute spiel about how her company works with all these countries and how the company is looking to expand and how the company needs bright young workers to further their goals. She said that they’re hiring management and entry level and she won’t know which one until my group interview. Just the thought of going to a “group” interview makes me not want to bother, though I’m going to because I’m really desperate. The whole time I was talking to her (which was probably like five minutes) I felt like I was talking to a robot and she viewed me as nothing more than another person to interview. I didn’t get the sense that I was a human being, an individual, just that I was one more body to put into their interview sessions. I had do a group orientation for my job now but at least I was interviewed one-on-one by someone who actually knew who I was (the woman from this other place had no idea even though her name was left in the voicemail message as someone to call). She knew how great her company was though, that’s for sure.
I think it’s going to wind up being a sales job anyway. I had a friend that posted her resume on Hotjobs and she said all she got was calls for sales and telemarketing.
I did receive two callbacks in the last week though, both on the same day as a matter of fact. The first one hasn’t panned out at all and the call that I received was from a cell phone located in Utah. The message went something like, “we received your resume and wanted to talk to you about a job.” No description of the job, no eagerness to hire me, nothing; just a monotone female voice giving me as little information as possible. I don’t even know if this is a job I actually applied for or if this is just a result of me posting information on Hotjobs. I called back and left a message and haven’t heard a thing since.
Then there was a call I received from American Income Home Life Insurance. I called back and I have to ask, when did businesses stop treating potential employees like human beings? I spoke with a woman who asked me what I did and why I was leaving (which I told her honestly) and then she launched into a two-minute spiel about how her company works with all these countries and how the company is looking to expand and how the company needs bright young workers to further their goals. She said that they’re hiring management and entry level and she won’t know which one until my group interview. Just the thought of going to a “group” interview makes me not want to bother, though I’m going to because I’m really desperate. The whole time I was talking to her (which was probably like five minutes) I felt like I was talking to a robot and she viewed me as nothing more than another person to interview. I didn’t get the sense that I was a human being, an individual, just that I was one more body to put into their interview sessions. I had do a group orientation for my job now but at least I was interviewed one-on-one by someone who actually knew who I was (the woman from this other place had no idea even though her name was left in the voicemail message as someone to call). She knew how great her company was though, that’s for sure.
I think it’s going to wind up being a sales job anyway. I had a friend that posted her resume on Hotjobs and she said all she got was calls for sales and telemarketing.