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Originally Posted by nonightowl
Okay to vent...  that's partly what this thread is for anyway! You're right...we are all people, not statistics. My pet peeve is that they say they added "50,000 jobs". WHAT #$%@*&! jobs? I mean, WHAT TYPE???? What industry? What part of the country for Pete's sake? It would be helpful if they elaborate. Are they part-time? Temporary? What the ****? 
I agree....they keep telling you the same stuff over & over....like dress appropriately and use deodorant. Common sense here.....  |
You think it's common sense, but you wouldn't believe what comes into interviews.
Unbrushed hair, definitely no deoderant. Completely inappropriate dress. One of my friends had a candidate bring her Twin Sister and they both went into the interview together. SUits that are way too big for the men. a girl who said she was going to school to be a teacher, but my job interview was for a bank teller - she was wearing a head scarf but I could see her BELLY BUTTON because her shirt was too short.
Most people do not have common sense. If you walk around most job fairs...the people do not look like they are out to get their next job. There is a reason the unemployment rate is so high but there are still jobs available to people.
i don't mean to come across like a biatch, but you could take all the seminars in the world but NightOwl and Deborah, you are correct - there are so many unemployed, big nd small companies basically have their pick of people, so if you don't come in there and totally WOW people, they are going to say NEXT.