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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Is there a 'good' way to explain 10 months of unemployment? |
| carthago |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2016, 12:54 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 836
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| If you're a full time student, you're not unemployed, even if you have a semester or a summer off. As long as you're in a program of full time study, for background check purposes, you don't need to explain anything. Typically you're only expected to explain gaps in employment, not counting time as ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Article on likability in job interviews |
| carthago |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2016, 8:52 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 575
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| I found this article on my LinkedIn feed. It's about the likability factor in job interviews. Worth a read if you're not so good at being likable (and let's face it, most people don't like aspies). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-qualified-candidates-dont-get-hired-erik-laimon-star-photography?tr... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Office 365 solves some problems about files with my colle... |
| carthago |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2016, 12:33 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 582
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| I use Office 365 and SharePoint at work. Currently I'm working on my second network drive to SharePoint transition. This time it's running much smoother than last time... maybe because the 2013 edition is better and less buggy than 2010, or my last employer was a federal agency that had a tendency t... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Glass Door - Job Review Site |
| carthago |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2016, 9:04 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 706
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| Glassdoor is one of the most accurate websites out there for this kind of information. It's the Wikipedia of the working world. Be that as it may, companies change over time, sometimes faster than the reviews and salary information can keep up with. I have talked to others at my company about salary... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Getting fired for poor performance. How do I cope? |
| carthago |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 5:57 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,847
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| But carthago, you're saying what the social norm is for how much time to take off when a grandparent passes away. When in fact that's a very personal decision. It's only personal to you. The workplace is anything but personal, there are norms to adhere to. Most of the challenge that we face is to b... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Getting fired for poor performance. How do I cope? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 10:28 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,847
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| My employer made that decision to give me that time off and incidentally there's a lot more to why I was off than that (such as caring for someone with dementia whose wife and carer just died). So I'd appreciate it if you weren't so presumptuous. I also don't appreciate false sympathy. You don't kn... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Getting fired for poor performance. How do I cope? |
| carthago |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2016, 12:38 am
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,847
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| Not measuring up is tough, but it's a fair reason to get let go. The job comes with shoes to fill and the company needs someone who can fill them. There are other jobs out there, but you might need to find ways to cope without taking time off. A grandparent passing is a very sad time, but it only re... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Stepping down as a manager |
| carthago |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,579
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| Unless this is a SOX control, you can't fix stupid. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Data Analytics |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2015, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,560
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| Just a suggestion if you want to take another crack at GIS. I have it on good authority that the green berets are in short supply of GIS specialists. I would also suggest the oil industry, but they're not hiring right now (but maybe in a year or two). Data analytics is a good field to be in though. ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Interest vs Employability |
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Posted: 13 Dec 2015, 4:27 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 560
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| There's not enough data from the poll to make any conclusions, but it looks like a theme is forming that most people chose a major based primarily on their interest. I started to wonder about this after reading what some people here studied in college, niche fields with few job opportunities, and it... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Interest vs Employability |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2015, 3:04 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 560
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Each option contains two parts, (i) and (ii):
Part (i) asks what was the primary reason you chose your academic major, if applicable.
Part (ii) asks if you were successful at finding a job. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: How to deal with graduation? |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2015, 6:40 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 339
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| The whole point of going to college and paying unholy sums of money to learn stuff that you could have learned much faster and for free on Wikipedia, is to gain access to the university recruitment pipeline. These days, if you have no professional experience, then university is your one and only tic... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: terminally unemployed |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2015, 9:44 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,399
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| I'm not suggesting my super-strict guidelines are the minimum requirements to get a job, but that's pretty average for the top picks for most highly sought-after professional entry level jobs, and it's what you're up against in a lot of cases. To use finance students as an example, many students dre... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: terminally unemployed |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2015, 11:34 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,399
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| If you haven't landed employment within 2 years of graduation it's a safe bet that your personal brand has rendered your degree obsolete. You can hit the reset button with another degree, ideally in something employable, but getting a job in the campus recruitment pipeline is all about attitude and ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why so negative? |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2015, 8:31 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,709
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| The commute times of my past 5 jobs... Currently, 8 minutes each way Previously, 30 minutes each way Before that, 1.5 hours each way And before that, 15 minutes each way And here's the kicker, 2.5 hours each way I did alright in all of them, but I'm really loving my commute now. If you can hang in t... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I chose the wrong path |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2015, 6:56 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 804
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| People major in accounting because they want a job. People major in languages because they like languages. You can change to study languages, but if you value working in a professional environment, having upward mobility, and getting paid well enough to do expensive things like travel in France, the... |
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