Layoff Advice

[Archie Moses]

What did you think about applying at my company?

($500 dollar referral bonus!)

As I said on my facebook, I'm not too proud to work anywhere. I will look it over.

I know a lot of people are telling me to be selective, but my dad always told me the best time to look for a job, is when you have on. Some monies is better than no monies.

 

[Archie Moses]

You've got two parades to work this month. Shave your kid's head, put him a wheelchair, and walk the parade route with a donation jar.

Never thought of that. Great idea!

 

[Archie Moses]

Anyone wanna take a look over my resume and give me any pointers?

 

[♪alt13]

That's a great idea!

Thanks.

Is this sarcastic?

Cuz my sarcasm detector is goin off like a teenager getting his first handy.

 

[fishonjazz]

As I said on my facebook, I'm not too proud to work anywhere. I will look it over.

I know a lot of people are telling me to be selective, but my dad always told me the best time to look for a job, is when you have on. Some monies is better than no monies.

I dont know what type if skills or experience you have but i think if you go to dannons website (dannon.com) there are probablu some jobs in management available right now along with lower positions like warehouse and production

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Keep an eye on all of the job sites, but keep in mind many of them have the same jobs.
Also watch for the recruiters that post fake jobs to get you to sign up with them in case they run across a job.
There are different methods with the recruiters, some people use them all, but risk having multiple recruiters submit you for the same job.
Other people say to just use one, maybe 2.

hotjobs.com
careerbuilder.com
monster.com
and there are more...

I liked www.indeed.com because most of the jobs on the others I could find at indeed in one place.

Use the utah government site, and the lds jobs site too. This is a lot of work to update your profile on them but may be worth it.
Some jobs are only on the company websites, so you may want to sign up on the larger companies sites and check them every few days or so.
It's a numbers game.

What is huge is who you know. If you can get people you know to refer you it can be enough to get your foot in the door for an interview, then it's up to you.

Tailor your resume to the job you are looking for. A resume for someone in graphics is going to be much different than a resume for someone in sales, etc.
Lots of places put resumes though an electronic filter that kicks out all that don't have enough of the keywords they are looking for which means you don't even get a shot at an actual person looking at it, so the keyword advice from OB can be key. If possible have your resume say a lot with as few words as possible. One trick I've seen on the electronic filters is to format a bunch of key words to white so they are not seen on the resume, but the electronic filter program will still note the words. I heard about this, but don't know for sure how effective it is.

That's all I have for now.

Good luck.

 

[Archie Moses]

Is this sarcastic?

Cuz my sarcasm detector is goin off like a teenager getting his first handy.

haha No, dude. It was sincere. I was sarcastic to Duck though.

 

[LogGrad98]

Keep an eye on all of the job sites, but keep in mind many of them have the same jobs.
Also watch for the recruiters that post fake jobs to get you to sign up with them in case they run across a job.
There are different methods with the recruiters, some people use them all, but risk having multiple recruiters submit you for the same job.
Other people say to just use one, maybe 2.

hotjobs.com
careerbuilder.com
monster.com
and there are more...

I liked www.indeed.com because most of the jobs on the others I could find at indeed in one place.

Use the utah government site, and the lds jobs site too. This is a lot of work to update your profile on them but may be worth it.
Some jobs are only on the company websites, so you may want to sign up on the larger companies sites and check them every few days or so.
It's a numbers game.

What is huge is who you know. If you can get people you know to refer you it can be enough to get your foot in the door for an interview, then it's up to you.

Tailor your resume to the job you are looking for. A resume for someone in graphics is going to be much different than a resume for someone in sales, etc.
Lots of places put resumes though an electronic filter that kicks out all that don't have enough of the keywords they are looking for which means you don't even get a shot at an actual person looking at it, so the keyword advice from OB can be key. If possible have your resume say a lot with as few words as possible. One trick I've seen on the electronic filters is to format a bunch of key words to white so they are not seen on the resume, but the electronic filter program will still note the words. I heard about this, but don't know for sure how effective it is.

That's all I have for now.

Good luck.

Bad idea. Not all formatting stays the same from program to program. I have seen resumes with this "trick" and it immediately turns me off as a hiring manager. It isn't too hard to show your experience within the framework of the resume AND hit the keywords. The first thing I thought when I saw a resume like this was wow this guy is either not very creative, too creative, or just doesn't want to put the work into a decent resume in the first place.

However, I saw one where someone had a "keyword" section, kind of like at the bottom of a youtube video, and he listed all the keywords in black and white right at the end, while making sure he used them or some version of them in the context of the resume. Pretty cool actually.

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Bad idea. Not all formatting stays the same from program to program. I have seen resumes with this "trick" and it immediately turns me off as a hiring manager. It isn't too hard to show your experience within the framework of the resume AND hit the keywords. The first thing I thought when I saw a resume like this was wow this guy is either not very creative, too creative, or just doesn't want to put the work into a decent resume in the first place.

However, I saw one where someone had a "keyword" section, kind of like at the bottom of a youtube video, and he listed all the keywords in black and white right at the end, while making sure he used them or some version of them in the context of the resume. Pretty cool actually.

Nice idea of listing them at the bottom. I never tried the white font thing, but started thinking about it when it seemed my resume never made it to an actual human hand.

 

[franklin]

We should all go work for PKM.

He doesn't have enough money to manage to make it worth my time.

If I were Archie, I'd send Honz out on the corner a couple extra nights instead.

 

[LogGrad98]

Nice idea of listing them at the bottom. I never tried the white font thing, but started thinking about it when it seemed my resume never made it to an actual human hand.

The worst one I saw was some guy did this presumably in white text but our programs that filter and reprint the thing had them all in black and they were scattered all around the page, in margins, in between sentences, just randomly in every bit of white space the dude could find. It was kind of funny and pathetic all at once. And the resume wasn't very good anyway.

 

[franklin]

To anyone who doesn't have a highly technical skill and enjoys light to heavy labor: look into heavy industry, mining, and municipalities or muni-like businesses. The operators at the refineries are making over $100k (some are an IQ point short of retarded too), people in mining and gas make very livable wages, I've visited many muni power plants and haven't met a single person who doesn't love their job --- the same goes for the landfills if you can imagine that. The large scale and peaker power plants are very good jobs too -- you have to start at the bottom, but it's generally a solid wage and you have a **** ton of advancement opportunity just like all the rest I listed.

Most people in Utah can make, by themselves, well above the national average family income if they know where to look. We have a lot of opportunity for people all across the skill spectrum.