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wigglewhiz) wrote2010-11-30 04:17 pm
wigglewhiz) wrote2010-11-30 04:17 pm
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Desperate Like A Desperate Thing
So I just emailed off my CV (resume, American/French people!) to two Recruitment Agencies. Well, I emailed my CV to one and went through the online registration forms for the other, which was kind of a pain in the arse since it was fairly lengthy. And you KNOW they're going to call me in and go over the same screed of forms, questions, and horrible, horrible computery type-y competency test thingies anyway, even AFTER the lengthy registration process. Bah.
Anyway, this turn of events came about because today I was hearing from LOADS of fucking people that Himself works with about how jobs in this area aren't really advertised, that it's all networking and WHO you know rather than WHAT you know, and blah blah blah. Oh, and how so-and-so didn't get a job that was advertised, but once they KNEW someone who worked at the company they applied again and BINGO they bagged the job.
And how someone ELSE has a part-time job at Company S (where I just applied), and it's apparently an office full of women in their 50's who have WORKED TOGETHER THERE since they left the school they WENT TO TOGETHER, and are a totally TIGHT KNIT group and blah blah blabbity fucking disheartening blah about how they recently didn't hire an experienced person, but instead hired someone with no experience who knew one of the husbands of one of the women. GAH.
And then one of Himself's other workmates said that I should try the Agencies. Even though I've scouted through both of those Agencies and they seem to have mostly agricultural/industrial jobs, because THEY HAVE LOADS OF VACANCIES THAT THEY DON'T ADVERTISE. Seeing a pattern here?
Why the fucking hell would you NOT advertise a job vacancy? THAT YOU STILL HAVE?! I mean, I get it if you have LOADS of people that you know are looking for work, o you never NEED to advertise a job because there's a long line of qualified, experienced people just waiting to be employed. And I know that if you KNOW someone who KNOWS someone it does seem like a more attractive proposition than a complete random stranger. But if you still HAVE the vacancy? And you've advertised it before, or touted it around all those people that you KNOW? AND YET YOU STILL HAVE IT? Maybe you would want to consider someone you DON'T know, for a change?! Just sayin'.
Anyhoo, in my desperation and in the faith that there MAY be non-industrial/agricultural jobs just sitting on the Agency books, I've enquired with these two Agencies. I've nothing AGAINST Agencies, having obtained my last two permanent jobs (that I stayed in for 15 months. Heh. BECAUSE I AM FLIGHTY) through an initial Agency placement. But I do hate the faff of the interview, and the competency tests, and the usual couple of completely IRRELEVANT jobs they try to send you on for peanuts. Which... dude, I will probably totally take anyway because godDAMN I am so BORED.
Totally random, unrelated sidenote of the day: in my ill-fated preparations for the Hafla That Never Was, I tried out MissChievous's AWESOME tip re: sticky tape under the eyes for amazing Arab eye make-up.
I even used eyeliner ALL THE WAY round both eyelids, i.e. including the water line - which was previously very against my Thou Shalt Not Have Piggy Eyes mantra. (And was MUCH easier using my beloved MAC fluidline compared to the eye pencils I always tried for water line eyeliner before, under the misguided notion that they would stay better. AND it actually stayed put and was not irritating at all to the be-contact-lensed eyeballs, which I feared.)
Result: Holy Crap, OMFG, AMAZING. SRSLY. I will be doing my performance make-up like this from now on. (Although I will be buying some lo-stick masking tape for the purposes, instead of the rather sticky electrical tape which I totally improvised with because it was the only kind of tape I had in the house. Note to self: OUCH.)
Anyway, this turn of events came about because today I was hearing from LOADS of fucking people that Himself works with about how jobs in this area aren't really advertised, that it's all networking and WHO you know rather than WHAT you know, and blah blah blah. Oh, and how so-and-so didn't get a job that was advertised, but once they KNEW someone who worked at the company they applied again and BINGO they bagged the job.
And how someone ELSE has a part-time job at Company S (where I just applied), and it's apparently an office full of women in their 50's who have WORKED TOGETHER THERE since they left the school they WENT TO TOGETHER, and are a totally TIGHT KNIT group and blah blah blabbity fucking disheartening blah about how they recently didn't hire an experienced person, but instead hired someone with no experience who knew one of the husbands of one of the women. GAH.
And then one of Himself's other workmates said that I should try the Agencies. Even though I've scouted through both of those Agencies and they seem to have mostly agricultural/industrial jobs, because THEY HAVE LOADS OF VACANCIES THAT THEY DON'T ADVERTISE. Seeing a pattern here?
Why the fucking hell would you NOT advertise a job vacancy? THAT YOU STILL HAVE?! I mean, I get it if you have LOADS of people that you know are looking for work, o you never NEED to advertise a job because there's a long line of qualified, experienced people just waiting to be employed. And I know that if you KNOW someone who KNOWS someone it does seem like a more attractive proposition than a complete random stranger. But if you still HAVE the vacancy? And you've advertised it before, or touted it around all those people that you KNOW? AND YET YOU STILL HAVE IT? Maybe you would want to consider someone you DON'T know, for a change?! Just sayin'.
Anyhoo, in my desperation and in the faith that there MAY be non-industrial/agricultural jobs just sitting on the Agency books, I've enquired with these two Agencies. I've nothing AGAINST Agencies, having obtained my last two permanent jobs (that I stayed in for 15 months. Heh. BECAUSE I AM FLIGHTY) through an initial Agency placement. But I do hate the faff of the interview, and the competency tests, and the usual couple of completely IRRELEVANT jobs they try to send you on for peanuts. Which... dude, I will probably totally take anyway because godDAMN I am so BORED.
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Totally random, unrelated sidenote of the day: in my ill-fated preparations for the Hafla That Never Was, I tried out MissChievous's AWESOME tip re: sticky tape under the eyes for amazing Arab eye make-up.
I even used eyeliner ALL THE WAY round both eyelids, i.e. including the water line - which was previously very against my Thou Shalt Not Have Piggy Eyes mantra. (And was MUCH easier using my beloved MAC fluidline compared to the eye pencils I always tried for water line eyeliner before, under the misguided notion that they would stay better. AND it actually stayed put and was not irritating at all to the be-contact-lensed eyeballs, which I feared.)
Result: Holy Crap, OMFG, AMAZING. SRSLY. I will be doing my performance make-up like this from now on. (Although I will be buying some lo-stick masking tape for the purposes, instead of the rather sticky electrical tape which I totally improvised with because it was the only kind of tape I had in the house. Note to self: OUCH.)