Comments on: Bargaineering Career Week 2009

By: Bill Wygal

Bill Wygal — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:35:29 +0000

Finally reading article about careers and hiring.
Jim, the retail job applicant pool has never been worse. I can honestly say in my 30 years of retail I have never seen more people un willing to work or even show up for an appointment they scheduled…..
This may only apply to retail jobs, but that is the area I am familiar with.

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:41 +0000

I work with ex-offenders and help them find employment. I teach them how to find jobs considering their convictions. This looks like a good week for them to log on. I will tell them about this week.
Thanks

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:11:38 +0000

perfect timing. this should help alot

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:01:42 +0000

this looks interesting. one thing it definitely does is make me want to go into the attic and find LIFE and play it. what a great game.

plus i should prob update my resume just cause..but…lazy….

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:05:30 +0000

Chris – it’s already on… (at least day one!)

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:56:19 +0000

Sounds great… bring it on.

By: pcallaghan

pcallaghan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:28:04 +0000

This is definitely a much needed article. I’ve strived to keep my network as large as possible and keep communication with my entire network. This paid of tremendously when I was laid off in March. A few quick phone calls allowed me to have a contract in hand 3 days later with no interview required. I can’t complain about that given being in a technical field as a computer/network engineer doesn’t always have such quick transactions.

This article though should help tremendously for me to aid my girlfriend in her search for a new job. Though she has a job, her manager doesn’t seem to quite get that she wants to move up. Shes repeatedly stated that she wants to move up and move higher in the company so that she can actually be challeneged. She has a college degree yet the manager placed her in a position that only requires a high school degree, then last week when a position opened up (which paid over $10k more and gave her more visibility from higher ups) she was not even thought of for the job. A week after her end of year review and her telling him she needed something more challenging. Yet I’ve just come to find out, most of what the job has for tasks, she already does, because the person who is in that position for one of her projects DOESN’T do any of the work. Sorry for the rant, this has had me fired up for awhile!

By: BrianC

BrianC — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Great. I’m currently in the process of updating my resume. Looking forward to what you have to say.

By: matk54

matk54 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:02:25 +0000

I too am looking forward to this information!

By: mga

mga — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:45:46 +0000

Doh… nevermind. Delete this and my last reply. I should have read the entire article rather than jumping ahead to the links.

By: zapeta

zapeta — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:01:37 +0000

I’m looking forward to all the information!

By: Safeway_Sage

Safeway_Sage — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:51:52 +0000

I just got a new job and it was all due to my networking efforts on LinkedIn.

http://www.linkedin.com

I worked hard while i was still employed to develop a wide ranging network of contacts and was able to use it to find the new job that I start tomorrow.

Woot.

By: daemondust

daemondust — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:05:09 +0000

Fired, let go, downsized, etc… all mean the same thing, you’re out of the job, but have slight differences. ‘Fired’, at least to me, implies ill will towards the employee, while ‘let go’ and ‘downsized’ tend to mean that they ‘had no choice’ but to eliminate your position for reasons other than something the employee did, or did not do.

Other than being terminated for reasons like theft, I don’t think it counts until you’re out of college, in the ‘real world’.

By: javi

javi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:34:12 +0000

Perfect timing, I needed this.

By: Carla

Carla — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:59 +0000

This is really good timing for me. I’ve been on disability since March and do plan on going back to work sometime in 2010. After having relocated out of the San Francisco Bay Area, I will need all the advice and information I can get.