Job Searching
My current job is not a bad place to be. The work is interesting enough to hold my attention most of the time, and the company is nice. They do things to make it a nice place to be, there is free fruit every day, they buy us lunch every once in a while and in the summer time there is free ice cream at lunch on Fridays. However I feel that I am somewhat limited by a lack of opportunity to advance and a restriction in pay that comes with it. The real problem is that my job position is considered to be a supervisor level position, but I have no reports. So to move up, I need to go to a manager level position. But since I have no reports, I have no supervisory experience. So I am in a classic Catch-22.
I have been bothered by this for quite a while now. I had, however, decided to wait until the new year to start looking proper. I was at a Superbowl party and someone I used to work with gave me a tip about a job site that was giving him a fair number of leads. Yesterday I went and posted up my resume after Troop Meeting last night. Today I had three calls before Noon. Two of the three were for contract positions out of town, why do they call me when my profile says I am not interested in contracts or relocation? The other one looks good though. I also applied for a job that I found last night.
Last time I was looking for work I was registered on Monster.com and I don't think I generated 3 hits in the first month.
All in all I am feeling pretty good. The thing that will be new for me is that I have never looked for work when I had a job before. I got my first job right out of college with a company I had worked summers for. I left it when it was leave or find a good defense lawyer. I then spent time looking and then got a job as a COBOL coder at an insurance company, and they outsouced me (the day after I graduated with a Master's degree they paid for). I am looking forward to being able to be picky for a change.
I have been bothered by this for quite a while now. I had, however, decided to wait until the new year to start looking proper. I was at a Superbowl party and someone I used to work with gave me a tip about a job site that was giving him a fair number of leads. Yesterday I went and posted up my resume after Troop Meeting last night. Today I had three calls before Noon. Two of the three were for contract positions out of town, why do they call me when my profile says I am not interested in contracts or relocation? The other one looks good though. I also applied for a job that I found last night.
Last time I was looking for work I was registered on Monster.com and I don't think I generated 3 hits in the first month.
All in all I am feeling pretty good. The thing that will be new for me is that I have never looked for work when I had a job before. I got my first job right out of college with a company I had worked summers for. I left it when it was leave or find a good defense lawyer. I then spent time looking and then got a job as a COBOL coder at an insurance company, and they outsouced me (the day after I graduated with a Master's degree they paid for). I am looking forward to being able to be picky for a change.