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May 21, 2011, 12:26 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
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Originally Posted by Deborah35
I'm really tired of hearing all the "statistics" on the job recovery whatever. I don't know what or who to believe, I don't really look that much into all the "numbers". One day unemployment claims drop, then the next they go up. Probably because people get fed up and can't find work. I was told by an HR person that just submitting resume after resume online will not get you a job these days. Funny, because that's what it's become with alot of places, submit application/resume. Remember when you actually got a phone call for an interview, now it's an automated response. It's like you have to know someone. I don't know alot of people in that sense. What ever happened to the good old-fashioned phone call to bring you in for an interview.
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Like you, I am sick of "numbers" that mean nothing to me! The numbers only count people who are collecting unemployment; once you drop out of that system, you don't count anymore. I hate the way they tell you to "network" and it's the best way to find work. People look at you funny if you're out of work. I often feel it's a parallel world for the unemployed, as you have people who are & never have been, going on their merry way. 
As for online stuff, there's always advice telling you how to stand out, etc. But with everyone reading that same advice, how does anyone stand out if everyone is doing the same thing? Yeah, I remember the good ol-days, Deborah. I can't believe I call it that, but even faxxes stood out more than online resumes. Then they tell you to call the company, etc. to ask if they received it. In the real world, companies don't like to be called. Imagine everyone who applied calling like that! There's probably a "black hole" that online resumes end up in.
And back to my subject about occupation defining people in the U.S, consider this:
As kids, we were asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" So, at an early age, we are conditioned to believe that you need to BE something, DO something.....as if the kid is not ALREADY SOMEBODY.  What are going to BE? I don't know if kids are still asked this, but adults asked all the time when I was little.
NOW, as adults, we get, "What do you DO?" even before a "What's your name?"
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