making this thread to discuss things related to job hunting and employment. Anyone got any tips for job hunting?
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probably should be in “school and/or work” ;p
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done haha my bad i never pay attention to what category im posting in haha
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I dont really have any tips. I have only been actively job hunting for a few days. I just quit Saturday. I have put in 2 applications thus far but have registered at multiple job sites.
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nice dude… i think losing weight is gonna help me a lot in my field. As much as it is mentally stressful, i think i can work a FT if im able to lose weight to take some of the stress off.
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Personally, I really want to find something i can do from home. At lot of the remote jobs I’ve seen though are either highly skilled or in customer service. I’m getting too old for jobs with heavy lifting and high levels of repetition. Amazon was tearing up my body. I still dont know if my arm will ever be the same.
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damn man sorry to hear that… hope your arm heals up fr…
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I always suggest using employment agencies but it seems like no one has ever used one. I’ll post it again though. Employment agencies are where you can go and fill out an application and give to them and then they will do all the job hunting for you. If they find an employer looking for someone then they will notify you and you can put in your application and interview for the job.
The employment agency does all the work of finding job openings. Some agencies charge for this service, sometimes it’s free. When I was 19 I used an employment agency who got me a job in a tobacco factory as a shipping & receiving clerk. It paid a $700 a month salary back when If you worked full-time at minimum wage it paid about $400 a month. The employment agencies fee was $125 a month out of my first two months paychecks.. It was a good job, better than any job I had in those years.
There are also employment agencies for the disabled and specifically for the mentally ill. I used a few of these, they were free and they had connections with employers where they filled the employers open positions with people. So they had access to jobs in the companies where the open position was not widely publicized or not known by the general public. And the employers knew they were hiring disabled people so if you got hired by one of them you didn’t have to worry about whether to disclose or not, they already hired you knowing.
I went to one of these agencies who held classes on getting jobs, gave you vocational tests to see what you are most suited for and held mock interviews to practice and wrote a resume` for you. They also gave me a $100 to buy nice interview clothes..
I got 4 or 5 different jobs using employment agencies, I think I only paid the one time. Here’s something you might look into @SzSupportAdmin: temporary employment agencies who get you jobs for anywhere from a day long to three months. The ones I used usually charged a nominal fee for this. The agency has murtual arrangements with a bunch of companies and supply them regularly with temp workers. These are usually fast ways to get jobs and can supply money while yon are looking for a permanent employment. Often a temporary job turns into a permanent one if you work for an employer for a couple weeks or so and you impress them so they keep you on permanently.
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I will not change job right now (even though I would love to) but yesterday I was looking for jobs I could do in French Caribbean (I want to live there)
Driver of bus, driver that transport merchandisings, hostess/receptionnist would be interesting
I don’t want to keep working with kids in the future
If I don’t find jobs in French Caribbean I thought about working in a hotel in Australia
Working in a hotel would be great
I can live in the hotel I work to, so I can stay at home when I want(mostly if there’s a restaurant in the hotel)
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Do lots of volunteer work and build up an army of personal interconnections. My jobs have usually flowed to me more through personal connections than they have been found in job ads in my life. All of the better jobs came through connections.
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I use indeed n cvlibrary. Helps to look every day at least twice.
Helps to try to dive in the deep end a bit.
Im applying for call centre, receptionist, admim, sippirt worker,
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As always, I’m second guessing my ability to work. I’m just sick of sitting around, doing nothing all day 
having a job is so fulfilling. That is, until I hit the “anxiety wall” and I get the worst anticipatory anxiety and I can’t go into work anymore. Oh well, all I can do is try
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I start on Monday, I’m nervous.
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Got rejected for Master Card Data Scientist internship position and I think it was the best it could have happen to me.
I would probably struggle managing work and master thesis at the same time, so there’s that.
In November, once I hopefully finished my masters I’ll start job hunting again. I’m open to work abroad of my country, so let’s see where this masters will take me
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I find no luck on indeed tbh for admin work. Have you got interviews from there?
I might try Glass door, that’s supposed to be better than indeed
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Good luck @Daydreamer
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I am not getting any luck with any if the jobs tbh. Yeh. I think its my cv tho. Glassdoor sounds good
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good advice thanks dude!
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i recently made a new one on canva, its pretty easy and was actually fun to make 
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Linked in and indeed are good places for remote work
If the organisation is big enough and the job can be done remotely you will likely be able to turn a hybrid role into remote as an adjustment
The door is already half open
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