The schools can't or don't promote literacy on their own?

....(ponders forming own company)...

It's a little of both, actually.

Job fair -- yes, people actually do get hired as a result of these things.

I recommend doing everything you can think of: network, newspaper ads, online ads, job fairs.

By being awesome.

I'm convinced it's a result of some atrocity I committed in a former life.

interviewed for a shitty job back in 2000 then worked hard and got promoted 3 times.

here too.

after i graduated....i stayed in cincinnati for a couple of years. i had been promoted to supervisor at the answering service i was working at during school and was making pretty good money. working 2nd shift (as were my friends). so, everything was working out perfectly.

but then my friends started getting 1st shift jobs. so, it was getting to be that my schedule was completely different than everyone else's. and, i started realizing that i was kind of miserable not using the degree i had just gone to school for.

one night i got into an argument with one of my roommates and the next morning i decided i was moving back home (to cleveland).

so, i started sending out resumes.....(secretly). i didn't tell anyone i was leaving. i was coming up here a lot for interviews and such. but nothing was working out.

the last place i wanted to work was in my actual hometown. (i was hoping to work in the CITY of cleveland.) OR at a newspaper.

but, when i was called in for an interview with the editorial dept. of my hometown newspaper....i was too desperate to pass it up. (i had given myself a may 1st deadline to move from cincinnati. i was already behind schedule. this interview was ON april 28.) the interview went great. but at the end....was disappointed to hear that they didn't really have any openings available at the moment but that they will be keeping my resume on file.

this was on a thursday. feeling totally defeated. i had already moved MOST of my stuff up here. all i had left in cincinnati was my clothes, my stereo and my cat.

THEN.... on may 1st. the hr lady here called me and said that i was HIGHLY referred by the editor for a position they needed to fill in advertising. he said that this company NEEDED me here. i had NEVER thought of working in the advertising field. but she explained the job. i KNEW i could do it. and was flattered that the editor had deemed me so worthy to snatch up in any way they could. that day i had an interview on the phone with my current boss and was offered the position on the spot. i accepted and turned my 2 weeks notice in to my old company. it was a whirlwind. but everything felt so right.

now, almost 6 years later.... i'm still here. and i've gained some responsibilities. including my own 2 page section in the sunday paper and loads and loads of page design skills.

99% of the time, i love my job.


sometimes i regret leaving my old life in cincinnati. but then i just realize it's time to head back to see my friends.

awesome, all of this. i got a phone call about a job this afternoon.

I worked at a record label that did most of our business with this mag, so when i knew the label was going under, I asked the girl here if she needed an assistant. she brought me on after a brief simple interview. started here. she moved onto bigger things. they offered me her job, and here I am 6 1/2 years later.

How do you think the majority of laws get passed in the country?




My job: a friend worked for the company, he submitted my resume, I had one interview and was hired.

i know people who know people who know people, etc.

NEVER burn bridges.

I was told about the opening by my girlfriend's mom. She's been with the same company for like 10 years. I interviewed and was hired 7 months ago. I also had previous experience, so I was pretty much a shoe in with that and her recommendation.

my friend's horrible roommate sent me a job description from a board that she frequents. she was nice to me for the entire week after she sent me the job description. after i got the job, she went back to being mean and hateful.

my boss liked me from day one when i changed my shoes in the elevator. i said, "don't look... i have an interview and i have to change my shoes." (it was really cold out, so i wore boots) she said, "jasmine? i'm wendy. i'll be interviewing you today." i felt like a moron, but she thought it was funny. i was hired three weeks after my first interview and i think i'm working for one of the best companies around.

Took the postal exam and passed.

I was working a miserable job far from home, so I called a temp agency that I had used years before. They had a job that had literally just opened up seconds before, and I started 2 days after the call. I went from temp to perm after 1 month.

I started interning in my last year of my undergrad, doing administrative publishing things, then started writing artist and label grants. Then one of my bosses got knocked up and needed an assistant. I temporarily replaced her straight out of university doing licensing and royalties. She trained me poorly, to leave the door open for her after maternity leave, and I improved on some of the ways she used to do things, spent a lot of time correcting her past mistakes. I even accidently sent her an e-mail in which I called her fat. She's no longer my boss, but I kept the job.

:rawk:

Winner. Game, set, and match....

. . .i liked it so much, i bought the company.

You own the New England Patriots?

I was really close to being a postal worker. I took the exam in IL and passed, then I got a letter saying they wanted a second interview with me. It was like a week before I was moving to St. Louis, so I had to pass.

Every time I walk out or get fired I think "well, that's it now, no-one will ever employ me again" but, hey, I keep getting jobs which only proves most companies screening processes aren't very good at all.

- Apr 1998: Applied for and got job in Denver out of college
- Jun 2001: Friend from Denver company that had moved to Europe and got married. Networked with UK office folk, expressing an interest to move there
- Feb 2002: One of said folk forwarded me an email about a job that might work for me. Sent my resume later that day (Friday). - Phone interview the following Monday. Referred to a different position that was a better fit. Phone interview (and conditional offer) for that position the next day.
- Apr 2002: Over the pond and workin'.

Networking works.