Job Market: Is it that bad?

[Erzengel]

At least from what I'm told the Hospitals are on hiring freezes, they are even talking about closing some down in our area.

I'm also an Engineer, and I do a lot of municipal engineering as well as private work. No one is building right now so what use to be almost a 50/50 thing between public and private has pretty much become 90/10.

 

[JStorm]

for the most part Dallas is recession proof, for some reason my family is benefiting from it
all of our debts is being paid off, i got a new job with increase pay, and were planing on finally buying a house in a nice neighborhood

I've heard.

A friend from college told me to move to Houston, where he now lives. Apparently, his city is one of the lowest rates of lack of, in the US.

 

[JStorm]

At least from what I'm told the Hospitals are on hiring freezes, they are even talking about closing some down in our area.

I'm also an Engineer, and I do a lot of municipal engineering as well as private work. No one is building right now so what use to be almost a 50/50 thing between public and private has pretty much become 90/10.

Has there been a hiring freeze, in your sector? And further, have you felt the pinch, in the ideas of job security and/or no raise?

 

[Majic Walrus]

Augusta, GA

However, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Comcast, Knology, and so on - all have my resume, and I've been interviewed of over-looked.

That is very strange. Have you tried to find growing providers like: Dish Network, DirecTV, FioS or something like that?

 

[Erzengel]

No raise. But we did pick up another town to do engineering services for so....we're doing okay.

 

[JStorm]

That is very strange. Have you tried to find growing providers like: Dish Network, DirecTV, FioS or something like that?

Applied to those, as well. Do not think we have a FioS.

No raise. But we did pick up another town to do engineering services for so....we're doing okay.

Good to know.

 

[Immortalfire]

All you gotta do as a server at those places is cater and kiss ass to the group that comes in to be served. If it's a suburban family, you act all corny and ****. If it's some frat boys, you act all "duuuude" and talk about the last time you did a keg stand and ****, even if you never drank a drop in your life...it's about getting them tips.

Everything anyone needs to know, they're going to learn it from Terry.

 

[JStorm]

I've been told, and I'm sure this is most places, as well - that the job market is indicative of the housing market, a la a buyers market.

Hence, an employers market.

For example, the one given to me, AT&T needs three sales associates. The company has ten times the amount, in applicants. Now AT&T can pool from a higher quality, rather than pooling from the five to ten applicants.

Moreover, it's worse than that. A factory opening, in the area. Said factory needed three hundred people - 4,000 applied.

That's an employers dream.

 

[JStorm]

Everything anyone needs to know, they're going to learn it from Terry.

Change your 'tar, 'Fire!!

Go HAWKS!!!!!

 

[JStorm]

Well there's always hope.

One of my girl's co-workers is the manager at a local Steakhouse.

Why I am just hearing about this makes it seem fishing - but meh.

"Hey guys, my boy friend has been out of work for four months."

"Oh, my sister is the manager at Stonecrest!!"

"For how long?"

"Two years."

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[KevanG]

And as for another Customer Service job, I was interview for an inbound, second party, CS job: Sitel, via Verizon.

I work for Sitel up in New Brunswick, Canada.

It's not that bad a place to work. The bonuses are nice.

 

[JStorm]

I work for Sitel up in New Brunswick, Canada.

It's not that bad a place to work. The bonuses are nice.

Our Sitel asked for potential swing shifts, 1st-2nd-3rd, and was not a part of town I wished to work in.

I need to work - but I don't need a bullet.

 

[Anita18]

Yeah, I guess it depends. My highly-accomplished sister (seriously, I'm the failure of the family and I work in a cancer research lab I'm talkin' straight A's in a world-renown uni, multiple graduation awards, getting a masters along with her bachelors, every professor in her dept knowing her name, etc) spent 3-4 months doing nothing but send out resumes and working her contacts before finally landing a job. She must have send out like, 30. I only sent out about 5 and got two interviews before I landed my current job.

Unfortunately, despite her great stats, she graduated with a sociology degree, which doesn't immediately translate to quantifiable skills. The guy I'm seeing now actually managed to QUIT his job at a software company and find a new one in about a month, because he works in technology and I suspect it has to do with government defense, because he had to ask me if I was an American citizen and that he couldn't really talk about anything else about it, haha. (Now that I put it that way, it sounds kinda sketchy..)

My current job is safe unless the NIH's budget gets frozen. It certainly isn't as lucrative as some of the jobs that my college classmates got, but it's certainly stable.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Its pretty bad here in northern Illinois, too. I graduated from Illinois State in 2005 and have been working in a grocery store deli ever since. I keep looking for jobs but they are either low paying and tedious (ie, janitor) or ridiculously out of my reach (community college professor). There just isnt any "in between."

 

[JStorm]

Its pretty bad here in northern Illinois, too. I graduated from Illinois State in 2005 and have been working in a grocery store deli ever since. I keep looking for jobs but they are either low paying and tedious (ie, janitor) or ridiculously out of my reach (community college professor). There just isnt any "in between."

This seems to be the trend here, as well.

Each day I read the paper, and/or job sites, it's either gas station attendant or RN.

The "in between" is there, in a sense; but the job market is flooded. A la what I posted earlier, a sales job at At&T that only needs five employees has fifty applicants.

 

[Hobgoblin]

This seems to be the trend here, as well.

Each day I read the paper, and/or job sites, it's either gas station attendant or RN.

The "in between" is there, in a sense; but the job market is flooded. A la what I posted earlier, a sales job at At&T that only needs five employees has fifty applicants.

Where ya posting from? And what you said is true here, too. An advisor at the community college said they have been getting hundreds (something like 800, I think) of appliations for a few openings. It's darn frustrating.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, I laid off 4 months ago. I worked for the City of Chicago. I'm still on call, and I might get called back should this stimulas thing go through, but it's looking less and less like that's gonna happen anytime soon. In the meantime I go to an interview, and theres 50 to 60 people there, all going for the same job. I don't know. I might go back to school. I should, but I really don't want to. All I can do is play the lotto and hope for the best.

This has become my theme song. I believe this is what hell feels like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntzCi1lu2ys

 

[JStorm]

Where ya posting from? And what you said is true here, too. An advisor at the community college said they have been getting hundreds (something like 800, I think) of appliations for a few openings. It's darn frustrating.

Augusta, GA.

Yeah, I laid off 4 months ago. I worked for the City of Chicago. I'm still on call, and I might get called back should this stimulas thing go through, but it's looking less and less like that's gonna happen anytime soon. In the meantime I go to an interview, and theres 50 to 60 people there, all going for the same job. I don't know. I might go back to school. I should, but I really don't want to. All I can do is play the lotto and hope for the best.

This has become my theme song. I believe this is what hell feels like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntzCi1lu2ys

Your life just made my life sound better.

 

[AndThePickles]

Yes, the job market really is that bad. It's depressing, discouraging, and just plain awful

 

[AndThePickles]

My better half is a nurse. AND you'd think that people still get sick and still need doctors and nurses but they were told that most hospitals are on a "hiring" freeze.

For a while, hospitals were throwing bonuses and what not to get nurses to their hospitals.

Yup, it's like that here, too. No one is getting bonuses or raises this year. They're spreading the staff at my hospital as thin as possible, too. It's awful.

 

[JStorm]

Yes, the job market really is that bad. It's depressing, discouraging, and just plain awful

Trust me when I say this, I've always wanted to work at Burger King.

 

[BatMatt]

It is, I'm graduating with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in poltiical science, and the market for reporters right now is very weak. I want to be in front of the camera as a career, but right now I'm searching for any jobs needing people in the communication departments to wait this out until it gets better.

 

[Hobgoblin]

It is, I'm graduating with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in poltiical science, and the market for reporters right now is very weak. I want to be in front of the camera as a career, but right now I'm searching for any jobs needing people in the communication departments to wait this out until it gets better.

I went to the local college last year to study journalism...to find that newspapers are a dying business.

Bad luck all around.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

I feel your pain dude, I have a marketing degree, and I'm currently an assistant manager at Walmart. I interviewed against like 200 people for my job, and found out later that I only got the job because the managers who interviewed me thought I was attractive. So here I am, marketing degree and all, very happy to just have a job at Walmart. It's crazy out there right now. I left a job at Progressive Insurance right before all of this went down figuring I'd find a similar job no problem, now I kick myself everyday for leaving.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I feel your pain dude, I have a marketing degree, and I'm currently an assistant manager at Walmart. I interviewed against like 200 people for my job, and found out later that I only got the job because the managers who interviewed me thought I was attractive. So here I am, marketing degree and all, very happy to just have a job at Walmart. It's crazy out there right now. I left a job at Progressive Insurance right before all of this went down figuring I'd find a similar job no problem, now I kick myself everyday for leaving.

That sucks. I had a conversation about this with my wife the other day. Employers these days are looking for people with a high education and high experience level. Higher education is becoming more and more common and with the job market bottoming out there are more and more high level potential employees that are looking for jobs and that are willing to take jobs that people new to the field usually took.

This is why one of the marketing managers I used to work with had previously been the CMO for another major company but was reduced to a lower management position.