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Its a numbers game man. It sucks. It always helps to be proactive and even if you don't get results right away, at least you know you did everything you could do get your foot in the door.
 
I was offered a job yesterday and told them I would have a decision by tomorrow. (My mistake, I know :smh:)

I let another company, who pays better, know I was offered a position elsewhere and they requested a second interview next week.

Do I ask for an extension to decide? Do I ask for an earlier interview? Or should I just take the job that was offered and withdraw my application from the company that pays more?
 
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If you need to something to hold you over in atl look for delivery positions with coke, Pepsi, any beverage company you see . Some you don't need a cdl and there's also merchandiser positions where you get paid to go to the store and stock the shelves . Pays depend on the company you could make anywhere from 500-800 a week for merchandising and 800-1200 for delivery . But keep in mind that this is short term
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Good part time job but it will kill your back. Very labor intensive job.

I worked for Coke for about 2 year on the weekend. Waking up at 4 am and hearing my friends come in from TJ on the weekends was not the business, but I needed the money at 19.
 
kmn2008 said:
I was offered a job yesterday and told them I would have a decision by tomorrow. (My mistake, I know
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I let another company, who pays better, know I was offered a position elsewhere and they requested a second interview next week.


Do I ask for an extension to decide? Do I ask for an earlier interview? Or should I just take the job that was offered and withdraw my application from the company that pays more?
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They may not want to wait on you and just go with their runner up. Never turn down a sure thing for a maybe
 
AZwildcats said:
 
Just filled like 15 applications. Next week, 15 follow up calls on those apps 
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Anyone know if following up actually helps? I've tried it a couple times and it hasnt worked 
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I don't think so. I guess it would depend on the company. For a big company, I seriously doubt it would matter. For a small one, I guess maybe it might matter a bit but if I owned a small company, I'd just tell anyone who calls that if they submitted an app then someone from HR will review it and get back to them if we think he is a fit
kmn2008 said:
I was offered a job yesterday and told them I would have a decision by tomorrow. (My mistake, I know 
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I let another company, who pays better, know I was offered a position elsewhere and they requested a second interview next week.

Do I ask for an extension to decide? Do I ask for an earlier interview? Or should I just take the job that was offered and withdraw my application from the company that pays more?
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I will say this one more time if you got anyway to get to Texas the oil fields are booming . This is the only industry where u can go from unemployed to making at least 5k a month with no exp. if u got a degree even better because they'll make you and engineer and you can go straight to 100k or more after your first year. They house you , feed you , get your cdl , and basically take care of you until you leave them. Halliburton , schlumbger, baker Hughes, Sanjel, nabors, pioneer engery, Chesapeake energy , keystone pipeline are all hiring. They're jobs in penn, Ohio, tx, Cali, nd, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida , and offshore. Also it could be short term or a career it's what ever you make it.
 
sooperhooper said:
God knows I need another job asap. where are you all looking online, I use indeed mainly. supposedly there's thousands of jobs on there but I just don't feel like it's legit. I need something fast.
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What are you interested in doing?
 
rrlegend said:
I will say this one more time if you got anyway to get to Texas the oil fields are booming . This is the only industry where u can go from unemployed to making at least 5k a month with no exp. if u got a degree even better because they'll make you and engineer and you can go straight to 100k or more after your first year. They house you , feed you , get your cdl , and basically take care of you until you leave them. Halliburton , schlumbger, baker Hughes, Sanjel, nabors, pioneer engery, Chesapeake energy , keystone pipeline are all hiring. They're jobs in penn, Ohio, tx, Cali, nd, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida , and offshore. Also it could be short term or a career it's what ever you make it.
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this is great info bro Rep'd
 
Some of you might have read about my recent success at my job a few pages back. Well unfortunately a few days after that meeting, the buyer from my department decided to quit out of the blue. Since I'm very knowledgeable with all the products my department sells, I'm one of the frontrunners to get the position. I have already applied for it and I have an interview on the 19th, I was hired on the 17th last year :lol:.

Apparently all the top brass from the region are going to be at the interview since it's a "prestigious" position, the buyer is 3rd in command after the manager and assistant manager. Crazy how I've been able to do all of this being a part time employee and I haven't even made a year with the company yet. I'm praying I get the position, it will be full time with a nice pay increase(God knows I need that)
 
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Some of you might have read about my recent success at my job a few pages back. Well unfortunately a few days after that meeting, the buyer from my department decided to quit out of the blue. Since I'm very knowledgeable with all the products my department sells, I'm one of the frontrunners to get the position. I have already applied for it and I have an interview on the 19th, I was hired on the 17th last year :lol:.

Apparently all the top brass from the region are going to be at the interview since it's a "prestigious" position, the buyer is 3rd in command after the manager and assistant manager. Crazy how I've been able to do all of this being a part time employee and I haven't even made a year with the company yet. I'm praying I get the position, it will be full time with a nice pay increase(God knows I need that)
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Bravo homie good luck man I hope you get it
 
louislagerfeld said:
Some of you might have read about my recent success at my job a few pages back. Well unfortunately a few days after that meeting, the buyer from my department decided to quit out of the blue. Since I'm very knowledgeable with all the products my department sells, I'm one of the frontrunners to get the position. I have already applied for it and I have an interview on the 19th, I was hired on the 17th last year :lol:.

Apparently all the top brass from the region are going to be at the interview since it's a "prestigious" position, the buyer is 3rd in command after the manager and assistant manager. Crazy how I've been able to do all of this being a part time employee and I haven't even made a year with the company yet. I'm praying I get the position, it will be full time with a nice pay increase(God knows I need that)
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Publix right? Ask for stock too.

Good luck fam
 
Finally after a 3 month firing process, I'm close to getting my new job at Hartsfield Jackson, I applied in Feb, took the test in March, had a interview in April, they were only hiring for one position, I felt like a killed the interview, and they said I'd hear something in a week, week later no call or email, I call the director and she basically told me I was the person they were hiring, and that hr would be calling me soon with a offer, 3 weeks go by with no contact. I was afraid to call the director back I didn't wanna come off as annoying, but I called anyway and she advised me that the person in hr handling my paperwork went on maternity leave, the next day I finally get a call saying I was moving up in the hiring process, and that I'd get a email in a day or two to fill out for information release. I've never had a job that checked ALL my history, criminal, work, credit. On Friday some company already called my current job asking about my employment history, hopefully sometime this week I'll get a call with a salary offer.



Has anyone ever negotiated salary? I think the job is going to lowball me the job I applied for was 19-23 a hr. When the woman from hr called she said the initial offer would be be 36500 a year, that's like 1755 a hr. I have 6 years experience and all the training they want me to have in the future. 1755 is for someone with no experience I'm just looking for 41k
 
Have you guys ever left a job simply because you feel like it's not for you or what you want to do after being hired only a couple of weeks?
 
papageorgeo510 said:
Have you guys ever left a job simply because you feel like it's not for you or what you want to do after being hired only a couple of weeks?
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Did this when I worked at Steak 'n Shake life was all types of ****** up at the time so iquit

Haven't found a job since


Stuck with it man until u find another job or you'll regret it


Cousin was going through the same thing also he stuck with it few months later he bought himself a car

Stay up bro
 
F it. I'm just gonna have to hit the lottery. There's no job out here for me, or at least I'm not certain what it is. Looking through the classifieds legit gets me depressed. Life is too short to be on another man's clock anyway. Power ball here I come.
 
rrlegend said:
I will say this one more time if you got anyway to get to Texas the oil fields are booming . This is the only industry where u can go from unemployed to making at least 5k a month with no exp. if u got a degree even better because they'll make you and engineer and you can go straight to 100k or more after your first year. They house you , feed you , get your cdl , and basically take care of you until you leave them. Halliburton , schlumbger, baker Hughes, Sanjel, nabors, pioneer engery, Chesapeake energy , keystone pipeline are all hiring. They're jobs in penn, Ohio, tx, Cali, nd, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida , and offshore. Also it could be short term or a career it's what ever you make it.
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What positions should we look for when applying at those particular companies?
 
It's 3:30am and I can't sleep. All I can think about is finding a job for the summer. My parents decided to stop giving me money a while back so I've been donating plasma to have some pocket change. Its starting to take it's toll on my body and the sooner this stops the better
 
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Haven't heard anything from homedepot yet so i kept it pushing hope I hear something from them
 
AZwildcats said:
It's 3:30am and I can't sleep. All I can think about is finding a job for the summer. My parents decided to stop giving me money a while back so I've been donating plasma to have some pocket change. Its starting to take it's toll on my body and the sooner this stops the better
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Yo gave you checked out the Amazon Turk thread I've herd nothing but good things from people that do it

If anything it's time consuming and it's better than nothing
 
ive applied to over 140 jobs at least since october...no luck.

i can count the number of in person interviews on one hand.

the amount of phone interviews is twice that.

unemployment benefits ran out april 30th

3rd time being unemployed. sucks

looking for anything in digital marketing..currently do freelance digital work every now n then...

was supposed to start a warehouse job today but they said they overbooked and my new date is 3/25.

after wasting my gas to get out there |I

gonna goto this lowes job fair in a day or so :smh:
 
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Went on an interview today and the interviewer kept repeating that I was too overqualified for the role.

She said I'd get bored within 2 months of working there. I had to keep defending myself, but after the 3rd time she repeated that, I realized my chances were done.

She mentioned it 7 times in 30 minutes.
 
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