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[twig1026]

Those apple group interviews are full of fanboys and turns into a slurpfest QUICK

 

[supahoopa]

i applied for 5 jobs today.. none of them were hiring fml..

 

[gescobe]

I applied to 40 jobs since june. Finally got a teller job at chase. Its part time but ill take it. Bills need to be paid.
I have a finance degree and all the good jobs want a lot of experience. Just have to keep your head up
and keep trying. Im taking some accounting software courses at my local com college to get more knowledge.

 

[veryanalytical85]

Yeah the Job Market is rough... but we gotta utilize our skills and network somehow...
EDIT: Due to lack of interest.

 

[cobra kai]

Originally Posted by streethoopkilla

Originally Posted by Cobra Kai

Originally Posted by streethoopkilla


Had my 2nd interview with Apple yesterday. My next one should be my last with them hope i hear from them

what position did you apply for?
i applied for a creative position at the store, and a bunch of corporate joints.

if i get the creative position, i'm going to apply corporate within the year.

P/T Specialist what location you applied to?

  

a spot in STL.
i filled out an app online then walked in the store to introduce myself

told the manager i knew how to use finalcut pro and he was like 

waiting on them to call me back now with an interview time

 

[drillest]

Got 2 Job offers last week. One from T-mobile and another a merchandising coordinating position for Nike retail locations, and best believe im taking both jobs. I havd been unemployed for 7months and these bills need to get paid for asap.

Has anyone ever worked or work for tmobile??? Hows the commision there?

 

[gutta bob]

Originally Posted by gescobe

I applied to 40 jobs since june. Finally got a teller job at chase. Its part time but ill take it. Bills need to be paid.
I have a finance degree and all the good jobs want a lot of experience. Just have to keep your head up
and keep trying. Im taking some accounting software courses at my local com college to get more knowledge.

instead of taking those accountin software classes (which are a waste imo.. accept for excel).. take real upper accounting classes 300-400 lvl.. get your certificate/24 units to let you sit for the CPA exam.  Take CPA and then profit.  24 units is only 1 year or a semester plus summer... goes by quick.

Finance degrees won't get you anywhere without experience.  with accounting.. there are plenty of entry level, in between, and experienced jobs everywhere.  that's my 2 cents.

plus your resume is gonna look like hot fire with all that.. even without the experience.  good luck one love.

 

[gutta bob]

Originally Posted by supahoopa

i applied for 5 jobs today.. none of them were hiring fml..

okay then apply for 10 more.  5 aint nothing... try aiming for 20-30 applications a day.

apply to places even if they require experience.  most jobs are looking for 1-2 years experience... apply anyways and then ace the interview.

its a numbers game.  you apply for 100 jobs.. at least 1 will call back if not more.  that 1 job could change your life.

 

[streethoopkilla]

Just got another email from Apple. My final interview is Tuesday 

 

[northmiamiboi]

hard times will make lil *!%$@! hate santa claus

 

[luckyluchiano]

Originally Posted by drillest

Got 2 Job offers last week. One from T-mobile and another a merchandising coordinating position for Nike retail locations, and best believe im taking both jobs. I havd been unemployed for 7months and these bills need to get paid for asap.

Has anyone ever worked or work for tmobile??? Hows the commision there?

T-Mobile is Gravy, I was in school full time and worked about like 28-32 hrs a week there and made a little over 30k.

 

[girl thats drob]

Received a paid internship opportunity at one of the only two certified Mercedes Benz dealerships in the state as a Brand Specialist in the Smart Car department

. Only worked there for a week and helped sell 8 Smart Cars and now we're out of 2011's to sale and rewarded with a week off. Love the corporate world already and I'm only a sophomore in college

Just got fired from my old job, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, as a service agent (preparing cars to be rented such as cleaning inside and out etc.) just 3 weeks ago and look at me now

Sad I have to leave the company so soon due to school

. I was promised an opportunity to work there as well for the Summer

Big ups to those still on the grind looking for a job

 

[grimey]

 

[drillest]

Originally Posted by LuckyLuchiano

Originally Posted by drillest

Got 2 Job offers last week. One from T-mobile and another a merchandising coordinating position for Nike retail locations, and best believe im taking both jobs. I havd been unemployed for 7months and these bills need to get paid for asap.

Has anyone ever worked or work for tmobile??? Hows the commision there?

T-Mobile is Gravy, I was in school full time and worked about like 28-32 hrs a week there and made a little over 30k.

NIICE.. cant wait to start.

 

[supahoopa]

Originally Posted by GUTTA BOB

Originally Posted by supahoopa

i applied for 5 jobs today.. none of them were hiring fml..

okay then apply for 10 more.  5 aint nothing... try aiming for 20-30 applications a day.

apply to places even if they require experience.  most jobs are looking for 1-2 years experience... apply anyways and then ace the interview.

its a numbers game.  you apply for 100 jobs.. at least 1 will call back if not more.  that 1 job could change your life.

i plan on applying for 50 jobs by the 15th of this month..

 

[mikeu]

so about 4-5 weeks i got hired @ the spot from this company name unicef donation (they needed people really badly)

basically you stand up talk to strangers and ask thm if they can donate to this company
they gave me 1 trainning day a week later when i got hired
you get paid 35$ no matter what(this doesn't even matter  how many hours)
so after my first trainning days the manager is like ill give you more trainning days the next couple days
its been *+#%$!@ about 4 weeks this guy never gave me no trainning days i was so pissed wasted like all these weeks for no reason
what gets me so pissed was that i got o hapy i told a lot of my friends makes me look like a liar
now this in the house doing nothng when my classes starts tis month and im trying to get a job for a laptop smh.....
and last week friday was suppose to be my first pay check

 

[gutta bob]

Originally Posted by Grimey

if your cod skills are as good as your job hunting skills i feel sorry for you son.

what have you've been doing since the last time you've posted?

 

[Hijo Del Promo]

If any of you guys are looking to start a web-based business, PM me. I am a freelance web/graphic designer. I would hook up NTers with a discounted rate for my services. If you are interested message me and I will send over my portfolio.

 

[supahoopa]

filling out apps:

reason for leaving? what do you put ?

I had a job at hooters the summer of 09 and my reason for leaving is to finish my bachelors
is that good enough ?

this other job i had inventory specialist
I left because of unreasonable hours and unreasonable travel
is that good enough ?

 

[acidicality]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investors seeking reason for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won't find it in Friday's July jobs report.

Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet.

That would mark an improvement over the 18,000 net jobs created in June — the fewest in nine months — and the 25,000 in May. But over time, 90,000 new jobs a month wouldn't even be enough to keep the unemployment rate from rising. Nor would it erase fears on Wall Street that the U.S. may be on the verge of another recession.

At least 125,000 jobs a month are needed to keep up with population growth. Twice as many are generally associated with significant declines in the unemployment rate, which has risen for three straight months.

Economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimate there is a 35 percent chance of another recession within the next year.

Such fears and heightened concerns about Europe's debt crisis sent stock markets plummeting Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 513 points, its biggest decline since Oct. 22, 2008.

Since July 21, the Dow has closed lower in nine of the last 10 trading days. All three major stock market indexes have fallen 10 percent or more from their previous highs.

The deal reached this week in Washington to raise the nation's borrowing limit failed to stem the selling. Though investors no longer worried that the U.S. government would default on its debt, a fresh batch of data showed that the economy was in worse shape than many had thought.

The economy grew at a meager 0.8 percent annual rate in the first six months of this year, the slowest pace since the recession officially ended. Manufacturers are barely growing. Service companies are growing at the weakest pace in a year and a half. Consumers cut spending in June for the first time in 20 months, and they saved more.

"There is a reassessment of the economic backdrop taking place right before our eyes," said Tom Porcelli, chief U.S. economist at RBC Capital Markets. He said the figures were a shock to investors, who are realizing that the economy is in worse shape than they had assumed.

High gas prices and scant wage increases have squeezed U.S. consumers this year. And consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.

Businesses have responded by cutting hiring after a strong start in which they added an average of 215,000 jobs a month from February through April.

Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, on Wednesday said he thinks the economy will grow at a meager 1.5 percent annual rate in the July-September period, down from an earlier estimate of 2.5 percent.

The economy needs to expand at an annual rate of at least 2.5 percent to keep the unemployment rate from rising. And growth would have to accelerate to 5 percent for a whole year to bring down the rate by 1 percentage point.

There was some modest good news Thursday. Weekly applications for unemployment benefits dipped to 400,000, the fewest in four months. The four-week average, a more reliable measure, fell for the fifth straight week, also to the lowest level since early April.

But economists said the drop comes too late for Friday's jobs report. Instead, it could signal some modest job gains in August.

stupid lame %#$ economy

 

[gutta bob]

Originally Posted by supahoopa

filling out apps:

reason for leaving? what do you put ?

I had a job at hooters the summer of 09 and my reason for leaving is to finish my bachelors
is that good enough ?

this other job i had inventory specialist
I left because of unreasonable hours and unreasonable travel
is that good enough ?

you're putting down hooters on your resume? rethink that one... unless you were a manager or higher.

Put down inventory specialist and say you left because of school... and not because of the hours and travel.

 

[jawnyquest]

just got an interview with my old job

i was only there for 3 weeks, had to leave because of a personal/family issue. hopefully they let me back on the team

 

[rillo561]

I usually put "better opportunity " or "continuing education " for a reason for leaving a job.

 

[ace rawstein]

havent heard back from the university about the academic advisor gig yet...still praying and fingers crossed on that
I have a phone interview monday with Schulmberger for a Kinesiologist/Injury prevention Advisor...seems like a pretty interesting gig and they pay may be straight with them being a big oil and gas company

thing is I got my bachelors in Kinesiology in 07... and i dont remember none of the material 

 

...

im spending my weekend brushing up on some concepts for the interview even tho i prolly could sell myself incorporating what I been doing the pass 4 years in government anyway but still 

im looking at the 1st qualification "candidate must be generally perceived to have subject matter expertise in matters of Kinesiology and maintain confidence" like

 

 

 

[toilet terror]

jobs ain't calling and now i see why so much people sell theses days