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Gonna be blunt: either you're not very good or you're not displaying it in interviews, or you're not getting the right interviews. I find it mind blowing that

by rjbwork 11y ago

Gonna be blunt: either you're not very good or you're not displaying it in interviews, or you're not getting the right interviews. I find it mind blowing that you're making 40k out of school. I was making more than that in my internship in a non-high cost of living area of the country, and am making considerably more than that now. I just threw a resume up on Dice and started getting decent to great recruiter contacts immediately. I still get hit up constantly on linkedin as well.

retbull 11y ago
No interviews at all so far. I am an intern at a company that just got bought out and so they won't hire me "until they have more contracts" so they are keeping me on because they like me and want to hire me at some point. This means that it is very hard for me to get another job because I am not accruing experience in a "real" job and I am not qualified for any of the jobs I am applying for so I can't actually get real experience. My immediate boss would love to hire me but as his boss says no I am stuck here looking.
- rjbwork 11y ago
  I was actually kept in the same situation at my internship after I graduated myself. It sucks...I ended up leaving and getting a pretty significant bump in pay by just relentlessly interviewing any opportunity I got. I'll try to find the resume I used at the time and send it over to ya. I haven't had to make one in a couple of years, so...
Mz 11y ago
It might be a lot more helpful to him if you contacted him privately and showed him your resume or whatever so he can see what is working for you and see if that somehow clues him what he can do differently. I am of the firm conviction that our current job acquiring culture is pretty broken. Being good at a job and being good at getting a job are distinctly different skills and you really shouldn't infer too much about his on-the-job competencies based on his lack of job hunting savvy.

by rjbwork 11y ago

retbull 11y ago

No interviews at all so far. I am an intern at a company that just got bought out and so they won't hire me "until they have more contracts" so they are keeping me on because they like me and want to hire me at some point. This means that it is very hard for me to get another job because I am not accruing experience in a "real" job and I am not qualified for any of the jobs I am applying for so I can't actually get real experience. My immediate boss would love to hire me but as his boss says no I am stuck here looking.

rjbwork 11y ago
I was actually kept in the same situation at my internship after I graduated myself. It sucks...I ended up leaving and getting a pretty significant bump in pay by just relentlessly interviewing any opportunity I got. I'll try to find the resume I used at the time and send it over to ya. I haven't had to make one in a couple of years, so...

Mz 11y ago

It might be a lot more helpful to him if you contacted him privately and showed him your resume or whatever so he can see what is working for you and see if that somehow clues him what he can do differently. I am of the firm conviction that our current job acquiring culture is pretty broken. Being good at a job and being good at getting a job are distinctly different skills and you really shouldn't infer too much about his on-the-job competencies based on his lack of job hunting savvy.