5 Do's and Don'ts to Consider When Looking For a Job

If your still keeping up with some GPA ...... maybe you should listen to this advice.

LOL... went to an interview for an upper-career level job (over fifteen years of direct industry experience plus Master's degree expected) and they wanted to know my GPA in High School! I could tell that this HR person had no clue about what the company really needed and was just doing her job by rote. I chalked it up as a warning about ineffective company culture.

Temp employment firms will find you a job holding up a sign saying "slow".

Worst advice EVER...

Not necessarily....

In the US, more and more firms are using temp agencies, and this will only continue as the crippling effects of Obamacare finally hits businesses.

There are a lot of advantages to hiring temps. The business doesn't have to cover benefits, insurance, workmans comp, etc., and businesses are using temp agencies to find the "right" person for a certain position, while minimizing their risk. They can get rid of any temp, at any time, for any reason.

Not only does it pay the bills, but from the worker's perspective, there are other positive aspects to temping.

It gets them in the door, and gives them exposure, without having to sign on the dotted line, for a job they may hate.

If/when they get hired full time, they are already part of the team, and that "new hire" pressure doesn't exist.

The temp agencies of yesteryear are pretty much passe, and they are now used to connect professionals with the businesses that need them...often resulting in solid, full time employment.

Temp jobs don't mesh well with professional careers. I don't appreciate being treated like a low skilled or limited education worker after I've earned an advanced college degree. That degree plus experience should earn me a little respect, at least enough not to be subjected to here-today-gone-tomorrow status with no benefits and reduced pay. Yeah, you're trying to find the "right" person but I'm also trying to find the "right" company. When I can generate you more income than a goofball from off the street then I don't expect to be treated like a goofball.

We use contract engineers and other technical people all the time for short term requirements. We don't use the term "temp" for degreed "professional" level people, although they are definitely temporary.

For some this is the career path they have chosen, others are looking for a permanent placement.

Unfortunately, regardless of the respect you probably deserve, the reality is much different.

Well, if you have the luxury of picking and choosing most folks would not take a temp job. I suspect you haven't been job hunting lately. It is far worse than you could imagine. My friend has great marketable skills, is in his 40s and has been out 9 months. I think his resume isn't right because I figured he should have found a job in 2 months. He thinks it is fine and that is his problem. He is still too arrogant to find a job easily. He thinks he knows it all without doing all the things I suggested which I have posted. He hasn't done much of anything I told him to do because he is so smart. I feel for him!

For my language, 80% of the jobs are temp. The pay is good and in some cases, they pony up to about 30% more than the going rate.

For me, a programmer, let off at a terrible time to find a programming job in my language a temp job was a salvation. I had been jobless 13 months. Headhunters would not touch me at 12 months. I thought I might have had early retirement. At the temp job they squeezed 'blood out my eyes' but I hung in there. Later, I had another opportunity to work for the same temp and same target company. I gave the old program manager as a reference. She must have called the hiring program manager and told him to hire me. The prime hired be with only a cursory phone interview. I haven't been asked about my HS GPA, ever. You can blow them off if you don't need the job. Did you ask the interviewer why he was asking that question???? Maybe because it was a high level position they wanted someone who could effectively convince him that that was not necessary. I found too many interviewers to be extremely crafty and slip something in after disarming you with their 'stupidity'. If I don't catch it in the interview, it could take me months to figure out what went wrong.

Temp jobs are a means to an end and do pay the bills. Oh I was pay, OK it is just they could fire me as easily as flushing a toilet.

And yet I gave up on temp agencies after being offered to hold a sign for road crew, next day I was cleaning out a building site. These were considered to be "posh" jobs. Nah....we don't have a pile of illegals here to do these jobs. Its just us. And they treat us like s**t. Be there at five thirty, MAYBE get a job today starting at nine. If you are late, you lose your space in line. Its true...without the slaves I mean, Noble Illegal immigrants your economy would collapse to pre 1999 levels. I don't want to be a Noble immigrant slave in my own country so I departed and did not come back.

I kept telling them that I was a licenced electrican, and worked on aircraft for twenty years. Their answer was "grab a sign and a hammer grandpa or hand it to the guy over there". So much for temp agencies. They suck. They REALLY suck!

Then I got involved in a head hunter temp agency. They have grid. A chart of your qualifications. The higher you score on the grid, the more likely somebody will be interested in you. This did not work out any better because any electrical company is NOT going to pay the 80% commission on a year's work. So much for head hunters. They suck.

I now work for myself thank you. I am the boss, the registered owner of the South Tower Armouring Guild. I employ one or two people depending on the work load. Which is fairly light at the moment. I make sexy armour for transvestites, and solid armour for Ren Faire Jousters. I would like to see a head hunter put ME on his frackin grid!

Not all temp jobs are created the same.

If I were you I would have continued with the temp job while trying to build my own business. If I had an electrical gig I would call off sick at the temp job.

Do not blame the temp agency for using an electrician as a laborer. I am sure they would have used you as an electrician if they could because their cut would be more, probably 50% markup.

I do not know how things are in your neck of the woods but in mine a competent and reasonble freelance can make a confortable living.

Those, (day labor), places still exist, but there is whole new universe of temp agencies; not all of them bad. This is just one.

http://www.net-temps.com/jobs/temp-to-hire/index.htm#axzz2qUEXrX9J

I'm self-unemployed too. But I know people with real jobs, and sometimes the temp thing works out well.

What I need to do, is go find one of those real jobs, work it for 6 months, and collect unemployment for 2+ years.

You would have to have a baby.....

No way man.

My wife's brother has a neighbor,(single male with no kids), that has been out for almost 2 years, and will likely get another extension.

His yard looks awesome!!!

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Looks like you hit a glitch on your post.

I understand what you're saying, and I'm no pitch man for temp agencies.

But a paycheck that comes through a temp place, is better than none at all, and it really can lead to full time employment if the employer decides to keep the person around.

Beats living under a bridge.

No they don't.

They want to own you.

They will take half your paycheck until your "contract" runs out...often up to a year.

Same thing happens south of the border (my border)....only it happens to the eleven million illegal immigrants who get stuck with these blood suckers because they have no other choice. You don't really see it with ordinary folk. We do!

Sooner this industry either gets regulated or disposed of, the better. A paycheck is easier made by a dozen other ways. And you won't have to share it with a bloodsucker bully.

It won't be disposed of. Come 2015, part time and temp work will be the norm in the US.

I really don't comprehend the concept of people doing something voluntarily, and automatically achieving victim status.

1) A person walks into a temp agency, gets a job, and they are a "victim" because the agency gets paid for their services.

2) 11 million people break the law, enter the country illegally, and they are "victims" because they only make $10 per hour, tax free. They have no other choice? Um...staying in their own country wasn't an option?

You see all of these "victims" in the US, because both Canada and Mexico have very strict border control.

I don't consider myself a "victim". I consider myself screwed by the temp agency, and I left. If I could have got a job without going through a head hunter...I would have been golden with double my paycheck. They (Air Canada, or any other airline) will simply not hire without going through a head hunter because it takes a load off their HR system, and hey...its ME that pays the head hunter, not them!

Maybe things work differently where you come from. I think they do.

And just because people are happy and satisfied with a position that looks suspiciously like slave labour does not make them any less a slave labourer....though the term should properly be a "wage slave". I just walked away from it. I was not going to be a "victim" of a bully boss. I refused to allow my skills to fade, refused to allow myself to be mocked, and I totally refused to be called "grandpa".

I took every job they offered cheerfully. I had a dentist who needed to be paid off! grin! But they took my compliance as weakness. It was a positive joy to tell the straw boss to pound sand!

Of course, I don't care if I get a job NOW....I am far too ill to work. But I can still think, whine and complain and post on CR4....

Man, if we didn't have whining and complaining, what else would we do?

Yeah. In the US, the temp agency is paid the employer, not the employee. So if a temp job turns into a real job, it doesn't typically affect the paycheck of the employee.

I agree with you. I see no reason for anyone to allow themselves to be taken advantage of by a temp agency. Walking away sounds perfectly reasonable.

Being a free market guy, I would think that demand would bring about temp agencies that people were happy to work through. Seems logical that someone would come along and fill a niche that left the employees satisfied with the experience.

1) The most important! Take this VERY seriously. The game has completely changed in the last decade. Before getting laid off in 2009 my resume was reworked by a corporate resume. 6 months later it was completely revised again getting it god enough for a head hunters to send me the winning resume. Before that it was too far gone for help. After the third rewrite I was in the running but I made 2 more serious face lifts to its present format. If you have a modestly good resume it will never be seen by a decision maker since there will be enough excellent ones that will make yours irrelevant.

Learn about resume scanning and key words. These are critical for a good resume. Computers scan for words and phrases. Some are good some are bad. Take a position that receives 1000 resumes. The computer will select 100 to be reviewed by a human. This human is usually the receptionist or some other extremely unqualified person. Their job is reducing the stack to 10 or 20 resumes. They discard resumes for trivial reasons. There are articles how to survive each of these scans. To put this in prospective the worlds expert in some extremely advanced mathematics was not selected for a job that that math was the key skill. I was amazed that he wasn't even considered for an interview. He was able to discover his resume fail the computer search because it didn't have the word 'algebra'.

2) You get 'stale' fast. If you have been out 6 months and they can fill the interview slots with equally qualified persons who are fresher, you will not be considered. With programmers, headhunters will not consider you if you have been out of work for a year or more.

3) Yes

4)You should have a list of questions they might ask you and some you might ask them. You should have rehersed these at least in a mirror a few times. I suggest getting your interview skills evaluated but a professional. I have lost several jobs on the last interview and I ponder for months to years before I am satisfied that I know how I screwed up. I lost 3 for the exact same reason. These were the only last interviews I failed in a decade.

5) Duh! Failure on this can be fatal. You should not appear desperate but know you should be unless the phone is ringing off the hook. You can continue to look after you take a job for less than you should.

Research all job skills Google is your friend. Locate a as many free workshops as you can and attend them. After exhausting, the freebees do not shirk from shelling out money. Even if a few hundred dollars shortens your search by a month it was a wise investment. Job hunting in the US has become a game. Those who get the jobs are the best players who meet the minimum requirements. I have found a job in less than half the time each time I became jobless. If you are over 50 the average seek time was 18 months in the US a year ago. It does not take many screw-ups to put you in retirement in that age bracket. The last time I was out of work I spent a month reviewing my 'war chest' of job hunting information and reviewed my resume and found things to tweak. I was laid off Dec 1 so no one hires for about 6 weeks. At the beginning of the year 'I put the peddle to the metal for my job hunt, you could hear the squeal of my tire a block away'. By the time companies started to post openings I was at warp 10 as long as my di-lithium crystals could hold out. The end of January hiring high is short lived and the next opportunity was in late May. I bagged mine.

Know the hiring practices for your search area. DC has a tiny blip in Jan that may continue into Feb, late May to early June and the fall is the biggest while January is the smallest and the summer is dead. Make sure like a surfer, you are ready to ride the wave when it comes.

Because you are so erudite, I thought this was a good place to point out some links to support your position.

This link pretty much says it all.

Its about building a plan to get a job. Not a to-do list, or some airy fairy idea, but an actual plan. The link shows how to do it. If you did ALL of it, you will get a jay oh bee in double quick time. Observing a failure to make a plan is a good way for employers to toss your boring resume into the waste paper basket. After all, if you can't plan a job search, you won't be able to plan a project.

My 5 rules run a bit different.

1. Don't go looking for a job unless it's a last resort.

2. Don't take finding a job seriously.

3. Do give my unfortunate employer the impression I enjoy working for them no matter how bad the work is.

4. Do keep one or more fallback plans in play at all times while employed.

5. Do my best at what I am asked to do but don't get so attached to the work so as to not be able to walk away from it at any time.

First, Yusef1 I have applied to temp jobs offering 6 figure in UDs. Instead of keeping a programmer on staff they hire a temp for 3-12 months every few years to update their system. Their problem is 2 fold for them. 1) The system is usually super complex so the company does not want to spend 7 figures to make a new one in a more current language. 2) The programmers are becoming a dying breed I dropped out about a year ago. I am making about 30% less than the bottom of my old pay scale as a jr programmer in a different language. Playing musical chairs with my fellow programmers is not worth it. The rate they pay does not really matter because it is short term.

Tcmtech,

I agree more or less to all but 2. which is only fine if you can retire. Unless you have highly coveted unique skills the competition for any opening is so stiff no one could imagine how bad it is until you are job hunting. My wife's cousin a Yale Grad, was a bank auditor for the fed before working in a very big bank just outside NYC. When there were rumblings of a major layoff, she started looking. After 2.5 years without a single response, she has decided she could retire if she got laid off and will never look again.

As far as 1. goes, sometimes it is helpful to look at job openings just to realize how bad it is out there. OH I forgot to mention... In the US there are just as many persons looking for jobs as there were during the height of the recession. Although the unemployment has gone down considerably from the high, the jobless rate did not. My neighbor, a senior executive, took 3 years to land something and was probably an 'inside job'. Most likely, a friend or someone that knew him well hired him.

Where I live people like me of my skill sets are in high demand so I can pick and choose when and where I want to work.

If there is no work that's fine for me as well. I am more than capable and have had enough experience with supporting myself by various means so that I do not have to ever take finding work seriously.

I don't have an attitude that I am too good to do remedial/dirty/low status work if it pays or gives me something of value to trade for.

To me going to auctions or similar public sales events and buying up cheap broken or old junk in order to pick out what goodies I can resale for profit and then scrap the rest for recycle is no a problem to me.

It pays my bills and quite often gives me a load of literal cash in hand to live on! Granted it's not as stable as having a regular paycheck ever two weeks but it's a very nice feeling to hit those odd events where I make the equivalent of 6 months or better of two week paychecks in one day!

Ever cash a check that was so large it ran a small town bank out of $100 bills? I have once!

They ran out of hundred dollar bills? What did you do...flip a house?

Nah...I just decided it was easier to run my own business, be my own boss than it was to hold a sign.

Turns out I was wrong. Its blowdy hard to run a business. Well, one that makes money anyway. I have done the flea market thing once in a while. Its risky, but can be fun. ( used to repair folding knives I found at the market. No money in it, but it was very satisfying. Kids liked 'em.) I thought the paycheck would be better, and of course, it is a LOT better than Labour Ready. (Oh, in answer to the question why I could not get a job AS an electrician, the Labour Ready Corporation won't hire an electrician except to use him as casual labour, and the head hunters had a grid I could not do well on.)

The head hunters I ran across are not much better. They wear ties (always a bad sign) and they will hire an electrician if they want one. I never got high enough on the grid to get hired. So I walked into a union hall and signed up. I had work within four days.

NOTHING beats the personal touch.

Everything beats a temp agency.

(blood sucking lazy bastards....snort!)

Oh, and K, my comments about illegals is not personal....I never met an illegal worker I didn't like, and feel sorry for the stupid low wages they get paid. If you think the American economy will collapse if you have to pay the illegals a decent wage, you are sadly mistaken. I could go on and on about that...but it would be really off topic.

Economics 101 dictates otherwise.

We'll likely find out. The entire democrat platform going into 2014, is extending unemployment, and forcing business to give everybody a raise, (wage equality).

It's economics 101 alright...Keynesian economics.

Why is Keynesian economics bad? No really...it is the economic philosophy which was current at all comparatively recent depressions and inflation, and an economic philosophy which has made America great.

Wage equality means many things to many people. Not much can be said about it except that it may not be the same as "equal pay for equal work" which I Support.

The only think that will save you is to create higher duties on incoming products from outside the US. (or if I may be a greedy capitalist, the US-Canada-Mexico free trade zone) Right now, we all are hemorrhaging money to a nearly unsustainable degree. Blame Walmart if you must. They will scream blue bloody murder if you raise duties. After all they are the third biggest purchaser of Chinese goods, all the rest on the list are countries!

I support equal pay for equal work also, but not equal pay for equal time put into work.

For example: There are people that think that the doctor and the dishwasher should get equal pay for 8 hours of their time. This is communism, and it fails every time.

Definition of 'Keynesian Economics'

An economic theory of total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation. Keynesian economics was developed by the British economist John Maynard Keynes during the 1930s in an attempt to understand the Great Depression. Keynes advocated increased government expenditures and lower taxes to stimulate demand and pull the global economy out of the Depression. Subsequently, the term "Keynesian economics" was used to refer to the concept that optimal economic performance could be achieved - and economic slumps prevented - by influencing aggregate demand through activist stabilization and economic intervention policies by the government. Keynesian economics is considered to be a "demand-side" theory that focuses on changes in the economy over the short run.

Whatever Keynes thought would happen, hasn't...at least not in the US.

We have a massive, inefficient, expensive, unionized government; our taxes are not low, and we are headed toward $20 trillion in debt.

The socialists told us that unions were the way, and we now have public and private unfunded liabilities of around $90 trillion. Many are pension funds, which are guaranteed by the government, which means a taxpayer funded bailout.

http://www.pbgc.gov/

I'll always believe in free markets, with government's role being limited to keeping them free and open. That would include busting criminals, preventing monopolies from forming, going after polluters, and watching out for collusion and price fixing.

Keynesian economics had nothing to do with making America great...in fact, government had little or nothing to do with it.

It was applied all through the fifties, sixties and seventies. Were those not boom times? I know...they tried a stimulus payment a few years ago, and everybody spent it on Chinese made stuff. So they tried it again, but by building roads and such. Very Kensian way of doing things. And as far as I can see, it sort of worked. Certainly the US dollar has moved from parity to 10% over parity.

I'm not an expert in Keynesian economics, but I hear it reverberated by the people in Washington, and I call BS.

Some of the things I've heard uttered by Pelosi and others....

Foodstamps grow the economy; every dollar of foodstamp spending, puts five dollars into the economy.

Extended unemployment benefits grow the economy, because those people buy groceries, and the grocer will hire more people to work in the grocery store.

You don't own your business, because government paid for the road. We all own that business, and you owe us.

I don't know if Keynesian theory itself is flawed, or if it has been corrupted by the control freaks that we have running the show, but our government and it's incessant spending, along with the perpetual expansion of entitlement programs, is going to destroy us.

Printing and digitizing money from nowhere, in an effort to prove that Keynesian theory works, is equally dishonest and dangerous.

I had my numbers wrong. Every $5 in foodstamps, puts $9.20 into the economy.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/75918

I believe giveaways put about $10 in the echonomy out of $10, just like cutting taxes.

I don't know.

It seems to me that if one person has to work for $10, and another doesn't, the $10 has more value to the person that had to earn it.

Could be...could be...

Personally I prefer temp work! Give me a job that pays well but only lasts 3 - 4 months tops twice a year at the most and I am there!

Every job I have ever had I have always made it clear that when things are slow they can send me home without pay any time.

Odd thing is for what ever reason they always send the guys who want as many hours as they can get home first and keep us self defined slackers there as long as possible.

I like it too...on MY terms.

Tcmtech, that works best when work is easy to come by.

Kramarat,

Well the unemployed will need the extra time since forcing raises is bound to eliminate jobs at a time when jobs are painfully hard to come by. I can't believe the pubic is so foolish to think that is smart. I bet they would think raising the minimum wage to $100/hr would make everyone rich instead of put us all out of work at the same time as pushing inflation into high gear. I do not begrudge the unemployed extended benefits since the government created the problem in the first place.

Yeah. Raising wages by force, continually extending unemployment, etc., don't really address the original problem...which is the government.

Unfortunately, we've got a bunch of clowns in charge that have never had a real job, never run a business, and have always existed on other people's money. Until they are gone, things will only continue to get worse. The ACA alone will likely cause millions to lose their jobs, along with across the board hiring freezes.

It will also be necessary to raise taxes on the lucky ones that still have jobs, since the government is set to keep expanding forever.

Just wait until we start bailing out the bankrupt union pension funds.

Please allow me to add some Do's and Don'ts from my experience:

DON'T rely upon replying to Internet job listings to find a job. A lot of these ads are fake - companies just testing the waters, HR people trying to justify their own jobs, or headhunters reposting jobs already listed. You can get lost in the stampede even if the job is legitimate. However, DO use these listings to get a feel for who is hiring and what they claim they are looking for.

DON'T try to get an interview via HR. They throw up too many roadblocks. DO try to find who the actual hiring managers are, and find ways to meet them casually so you can build up a relationship.

Before signing with a temp agency DO research employment laws and contracts for your State and municipality. Temp agencies may try to force you to sign away employment rights, but sometimes the government will not enforce those contracts. For example, some agencies want a "non-complete" agreement that essentially says you cannot work in your normal field for a period of time after you've left that agency. A recent court case in my area decided that the agency could not prevent somebody for taking a new job unless the agency was willing to pay them while they were unemployed; the agency rescinded the agreement.

DO join interest groups that apply to your profession, present relevant topic lectures, or teach related courses at local schools. Any of these can showcase your talents and lead to good networking.

Ferd,

DON'T rely upon replying to Internet job listings to find a job.

I agree with not relying on anything but in my job niche internet and headhunters are the most productive. 100% of my leads have come from there in the last 5 years.

DON'T try to get an interview via HR

I find HR the weak underbelly of the company. If you can strike up a good rapport with the HR representative, you can ask why did you pick me? They usually tell me. Then I know what they are looking for and tailor my interview to present me as what they are looking for. The trick is to get that rapport. They are looking for persons that will make their job easier not harder.

Any organization can help you network. The larger your network the better chance you will get a lead before it is advertised. This is the only way about half the job hunters will land a job. Many companies prefer to save money by bypassing costly advertisements and head hunters if they can.

Go to 'how to job hunt' sessions and ask about these network groups and other sessions you can attend. I feel these sessions are needed regardless of your job hunting skill level. If you haven't been job hunting in the last 5 years, assume you are nearly ignorant about how the game is played now. Those that think otherwise will spend 2 to 4 times more time job hunting than they would. There is no accounting for luck. There has been a good bit of luck in all my hires since 2008. You can fall into a job at any time at any job hunting skill level. Good sessions are so full of information you never 'get it all'. You continue to absorb gems you missed before.

I am going to cut and paste an atricle from the Carreer News. I need to add this new letter is funded by a posting service.

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