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For job less people how long have you been unemployed?

Showed up, signed papers, got the job.
Manual labor for teh win?
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By being better than my colleagues
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I applied for it with 13+ years of relevant experience.

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Done internship at the accountancy firm, job opening came up, they basically said "as long as you don't completely **** up the interview you'll get the job". Didn't **** up the interview.

i haven't had a legal job since November 2012.
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Did an interview, got called back for another, signed papers, got hired.

Easy peasy.
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Craigslist

Then I shot up the ranks pretty quickly.
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Did research and found out where a lot of Vietnamese people were moving into a certain region in LA. Scheduled for some interviews for a tax firms around the area and got called back from 3 of them. I basically picked the job that paid the highest and it also did help that I could speak Vietnamese rather fluently.

Knowing 2 languages puts you into a major advantage in getting jobs.
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Interviewed. Did a follow up interview. Boom.
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ToonLinkWithGun posted...

By being better than my colleagues

Mass applying on job sites (mainly indeed.com)
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Found the job opening via LinkedIn, made sure I had all the necessary qualifications, applied, interviewed, and boom.
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i ran into my friend at a train station and we started talking. i told him i was stressed out looking for a job (i had just been rejected after a 4 STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS)

and he said that his job was looking for someone to teach computers. i applied and dropped his name and got an interview and they loved me. got hired.

then, the director of our program mysteriously quit and when some of the supervisors got suspended for asking too many questions, E V E R Y O N E quit. except me. cuz i need money. that left a lot of open positions and i got "promoted"

now im the program coordinator at a high school we partner with, because the old coord quit.
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Two day intensive tryouts, 90 tried out, 10 were hired
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graduated college

saw the job posting on indeed

applied

had an online basic math/english assessment

had a phone interview

had an in person interview

had an 8 hour long psychology test

had a drug test

boom
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

had an 8 hour long psychology test

WTF

Companies need to quit with this type of crap (unless that psych test is absolutely necessary due to the type of position or something)

I don't mind the psych test itself so much as how goddamn long it takes. 8 hours? And you aren't even guaranteed the job? WTF.
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Twin3Turbo posted...

Vamp_Aubrey posted...

had an 8 hour long psychology test

WTF

Companies need to quit with this type of crap (unless that psych test is absolutely necessary due to the type of position or something)

I don't mind the psych test itself so much as how goddamn long it takes. 8 hours? And you aren't even guaranteed the job? WTF.

yea its dumb

all managers/executives and anyone who has manager-access to critical documents and systems (like i do as an internal auditor) has to take it

theres a 7~ hour written portion (math, literacy, honesty questions, etc)

and an hour long interview with the psychologist where he/she asks you random trivia, riddles, random shit to see how you react

and everything is timed to determined to see how you work under pressure i think

we never get to see our own results but i've seen others while going through people's personnel files

the company owners have been requiring this for 40~ years so w/e
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Filled out an online application, got an interview, and passed training.
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Buzz Killjoy posted...

I applied for it with 7+ years of relevant experience.

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asked a regular (sbux) customer what he does for a living, told him i got a degree in the same field, got a job a week later at his company.
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Coming into the job with 8 years of experience.

First given an exercise to build a Linux VM with Gentoo distro. Then two face to face interviews with two different guys. Then a tour of the data center with my boss asking me if I can handle the job and haggling about my salary.
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Applied to a co-op job posting, got hired for the summer and then kept getting extended on contract until they hired me permanently. That part took 4 years unfortunately, lol.

I got my most recent promotion from acting in the position for most of the last 2 years and then my manager was finally able to offer the promotion officially.
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Got hired as a sale associate by a friend's recommendation, have since moved up to manager
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I put my resume on craigslist and a job recruiter said the company wanted to interview me and start me as soon as possible. I had a job offer from a fortune 500 company in Nashville, TN that I was about to actually move for, but this other job was in Austin, TX and paid more. So I decided to stay in Austin.
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A sketchy interview with a camera involved.

i sent an email to someone i met once several years prior as an intern, and they said they would hire me. i was instructed to apply for a listing that i was in no way qualified for and two weeks later was given an offer
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i was a contracts intern for the DOD, applied to a procurement job for a large company that does lots of defense work on the defense side. Got the job after 3 years, got a promotion to manage engineers at ~25 with my BA in business administration, did that for a couple of years until the program was wrapping up and they realized I wasn't qualified for my position so they moved me to contracts, which I also wasn't technically qualified for since I don't have a law degree, did that for a few years, then moved to non-production commercial stuff as a manager over a procurement group, didn't like the command chain so did a lateral to another group I loved, did a great job, so they moved me to a job I didn't want/ask for with no direct reports.

So for the first time since I hired in in 2005 I am looking for another company to work for.
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so basically what Im getting is that if you want to be a succesful ceman, get an internship
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Balrog0 posted...

so basically what Im getting is that if you want to be a succesful ceman, get an internship

Internships are great (if paid). I still despise the idea of unpaid internships.
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Meet a bunch of NHL players and managers, mostly through their time in junior hockey. Stay friends, post their secrets on the internet, anonymously.
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My best friend's dad heard I was looking for work around home to do while I went to community college so he called me and said I could start working for him the following week. Filled out little bits of paperwork but that's it. I've been here for over two years now.

He runs a cable contracting company and also owns a bunch of rental homes around Detroit so I work in Comcast buildings mostly but I've also been doing work on his houses. Painting and cleaning, mostly.
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Friend of the family wanted to retire so he offered to sell the company to me.
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Balrog0 posted...

so basically what Im getting is that if you want to be a succesful ceman, get an internship

at least within the dept of defense and their associated contractors and consultants, internships are essentially programs to scout for new hires in advance

pretty much everyone who has ever interned at my employer was able to get a job here if they wanted to
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Darkman124 posted...

at least within the dept of defense and their associated contractors and consultants, internships are essentially programs to scout for new hires in advance

is that any different than other fields? I'd assume that's how it always works but my actual experience is pretty narrow
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it definitely isnt how political thinktanks work, a lot of my dc friends have done unpaid internships that never led to a job

my experience is narrow--university research, NASA, and DoD/contractor.
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It's how accounting works 100%. Darkguy I'm mad at yoiu for not ressponding to my call out earlier
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White privilege?
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I applied.
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Drpooplol posted...

It's how accounting works 100%. Darkguy I'm mad at yoiu for not ressponding to my call out earlier

i saw it and figured the best way to screw with you was to say absolutely nothing
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Oh man you fat bitch that's beautiful
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applied and did an interview
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I applied. Didn't hear anything for a couple of months. Then got an email and had a phone call. Then interviewed on site for a half day. Got an offer.

I'm honestly surprised I got the job. It's a well known company with a crap ton of applicants. I didn't even have all the listed experience. But I had a unique background that set me apart and killed it during the interviews.

My first job I applied for and they called me in. My second and current job I also applied for but I only heard about the openings because of contacts my dad has in the UAW. Good thing a lot of people took buyouts during the Chrysler bankruptcy or I probably wouldn't be here.
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Was working for a fortune 500 in corporate America, and called up an old contact who owned a successful real estate tech company and told him I wanted to do something creative.

We've been building a business the past 6 months and we are in position to make some moves.

Heres hoping I can retire in a few years

Got out of the army. Did some tech cert classes then got a job working as a tier 2 support guy. Didn't last long as I got contacted about training contractors how to shoot a variety of fire arms and I'm full time in school too. Living the stay at home dad life for the most part.