3 months and still looking
By TinkerKitty
@TinkerKitty (52)
United States
January 31, 2012 10:09am CST
Three months, 17 applications, five connections, and still looking for a job. Which sucks more than it used to because I have $110 in the bank, and a $119 bill due on Feb. 13th. I bet it would be a lot easier if companies would just stop hiring managers and/or people with 2+ years of experience and give us college kids a chance.
You can't get a job unless you have experience, but you can't get experience if you have a job. Not only that, but most places are only hiring managers. If I was a manager of a hotel for 5 years, there's not way I'd leave it to be a manager of a gas station, where I'd probably get paid less. And anybody who's made it to a manager position is unlikely to get fired easily.
Even online jobs either want experience or need money to make money. Sure, I could be a Pizza Hut delivery girl, but that means I'd have to get a car, insurence, and gas with money that, as previously stated, I just don't have.
And the one time I got an interview, she said she'd call on Friday to see where we'd go. No call, not even to say that she found someone more qualified.
I was just wondering how many other people were having this much trouble.
2 responses
@agent807 (751)
• United States
10 Feb 12
I am running into that problem myself. I have been unemployed for ten months. Ten months, 300-350 applications, and only four interviews, which none of them panned out. I have received more rejection letters than interview requests. The jobs that I have applied for were all over the place. You're right. I don't understand how these places expect for anyone to gain experience without first hiring them. I am in college myself, but at the current moment, it is in the way. The further I make it along, the harder it is for me to graduate. The schedules they have set up at school do not allow for those who actually work. I have decided to make this semester my last because I need to find a job badly, especially now that I just learned that my unemployment stops in three weeks. During a job search one day, I applied to a job that was offered in two different locations, in two different states, the one I live in, and the other state 1500 miles away. I received the call from the other state first, as they never called back here. My work history has mostly retail experience on it, but in a lot of retail places, it is not enough, or I am not the candidate that they were looking for. The only other option that I have is to go into business for myself, or write a book and hope for the best. What's funny is that here, they are talking about how the unemployment rate has dropped (why I am being kicked off unemployment), but no one pays attention to the real story that people may have given up looking for work. There are jobs out there, but either the pay is low, or there is too much of a hassle to get the job. Then they preach going back to school to get skills for the job, yet no one has mentioned anything about how to help anyone pay for school to get a better job. At this point, I am willing to move to another state to find another job.
@TinkerKitty (52)
• United States
14 Feb 12
Ten months is horrible, but at least you (had) unemployment to help for a while. The problem with working for yourself, and moving, is that it costs money before you make any. The only reason I got away with moving is because I'm with my mom's friends. My work history doesn't help much, either, because it's been so scattered and short.
And that's the thing about school. It's hard to get a job around your schedule (not for me, I'm going online), and even with a degree most employers usually care more about experience. Then, once you graduate, you still don't have a job to pay back loans plus interest. All without a job, because 5 years of experience gets a job more often than none and a degree.
@Jatada (291)
• India
31 Jan 12
You are right.If you want to get some job then you should have some years experience.I also have experienced similar situation.It turns me for online money making.But still i didnt suceed in online also.
@TinkerKitty (52)
• United States
2 Feb 12
This is where we need a job that requires experience in job hunting; I think we'd be pretty good for that one.
