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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 579082" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You have got to find people who work at these places now, and get them to mention you to their supervisors, or get the supervisors names and figure out how to find them. It isn't about your application anymore, if it ever was. It is about who you know. Start contacting everyone you have ever met, let them know you are looking for work, and that you are willing to do just about anything/everything no holds barred. </p><p></p><p>I once had to hire waitresses and grill cooks. No job got more than a buck among minimum. The least number off applicants per job was fifty and the economy was doing well. It was HARD to pick someone from applications. most of the mgrs I worked with didn't even LOOK at applications unless the applicant knew someone who already worked for us who spoke well of them. I have gotten more jobs that way than any other.</p><p></p><p>If you want that factory job, figure out where they hang out. Go hang out when they do, talk to them, make friends. Then you have a shot. If you can figure out where the supervisors hang out, even better. If you cannot, go drop off an application at the factory. Tuck a plate of cookies or banana bread or something in with it. You have to be personal, memorable, and stand out. That extra mile? Is now an extra ten or twenty miles. Find them on facebook if you can and figure out how to friend them. Often that works well to find the other stuff. Sometimes if you can find the company fb page, or web page, you can find others who link to it and then find employees and supervisors and hiring managers. </p><p></p><p>Without that? Well, my husband has a good graduate degree from a good school, same for his bachelors, many years of teaching with commendations, and he put in over 100 applications and got a job with a rinky dink chain jr college that was mostly there to soak up funding from the govt. In two quarters he had no more than six people in his classes. He was lucky because his old advisor and dept head just loved him, as did his students, and when they had a bunch of grad students come in who couldn't speak the language well enough to pass the exam to teach, they called. He had four days to prep for 3 classes of a min of fifty students each. He is only three quarter time, but it is doing well for us. He is FINALLY getting serious about his phd and we can get scholarships for that, so it will be paid for plus he will get money to live on for teaching, bc they cannot run the dept with-o him at this point. They are talking about full time even with-o the phd for next year because they are desperate. But with-o a phd he cannot be permanent, just a 'visiting' prof. Either way, we lucked out and it was TOTAL who you know, not what you know. His 'what you know' is very high, esp for teaching because he is just amazingly gifted and it is fun for him, but with-o me having known his bosses for decades first, and my mom being very close friends with them, well, I am not sure they would have thought of him. Add in his willingness to take on short notice classes wehn people hired show up with zero English skills (it is super common here, but frustrating as they are often scrambling to fill 3 -10 classes with instructors because people commit to teaching with-o telling them that they don't speak the language, then they show up days before classes expecting students to just accept them the way they are. they sent six people back to their countries from just one dept in the college of business last semester due to this. Ugh.) and he is tailor made to fill their needs. Plus the kids adore him. His evaluations are the highest in the college of business, not taht he realizes it. I know because I know these people and tehy tell me things they don't tell him. </p><p></p><p>You have got to find these people and make yourself known, or the job won't happen. Maybe if you don't want to do daycare at home, you could bake and sell things? Knit/crochet doll clothes to sell? Around here sales for these things are really picking up. People are looking for local products rather than buying in chains when they can. Consider teaching knitting/crochet/cooking/whatever at the local michael's/joann's/whatever? or an area arts coop?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 579082, member: 1233"] You have got to find people who work at these places now, and get them to mention you to their supervisors, or get the supervisors names and figure out how to find them. It isn't about your application anymore, if it ever was. It is about who you know. Start contacting everyone you have ever met, let them know you are looking for work, and that you are willing to do just about anything/everything no holds barred. I once had to hire waitresses and grill cooks. No job got more than a buck among minimum. The least number off applicants per job was fifty and the economy was doing well. It was HARD to pick someone from applications. most of the mgrs I worked with didn't even LOOK at applications unless the applicant knew someone who already worked for us who spoke well of them. I have gotten more jobs that way than any other. If you want that factory job, figure out where they hang out. Go hang out when they do, talk to them, make friends. Then you have a shot. If you can figure out where the supervisors hang out, even better. If you cannot, go drop off an application at the factory. Tuck a plate of cookies or banana bread or something in with it. You have to be personal, memorable, and stand out. That extra mile? Is now an extra ten or twenty miles. Find them on facebook if you can and figure out how to friend them. Often that works well to find the other stuff. Sometimes if you can find the company fb page, or web page, you can find others who link to it and then find employees and supervisors and hiring managers. Without that? Well, my husband has a good graduate degree from a good school, same for his bachelors, many years of teaching with commendations, and he put in over 100 applications and got a job with a rinky dink chain jr college that was mostly there to soak up funding from the govt. In two quarters he had no more than six people in his classes. He was lucky because his old advisor and dept head just loved him, as did his students, and when they had a bunch of grad students come in who couldn't speak the language well enough to pass the exam to teach, they called. He had four days to prep for 3 classes of a min of fifty students each. He is only three quarter time, but it is doing well for us. He is FINALLY getting serious about his phd and we can get scholarships for that, so it will be paid for plus he will get money to live on for teaching, bc they cannot run the dept with-o him at this point. They are talking about full time even with-o the phd for next year because they are desperate. But with-o a phd he cannot be permanent, just a 'visiting' prof. Either way, we lucked out and it was TOTAL who you know, not what you know. His 'what you know' is very high, esp for teaching because he is just amazingly gifted and it is fun for him, but with-o me having known his bosses for decades first, and my mom being very close friends with them, well, I am not sure they would have thought of him. Add in his willingness to take on short notice classes wehn people hired show up with zero English skills (it is super common here, but frustrating as they are often scrambling to fill 3 -10 classes with instructors because people commit to teaching with-o telling them that they don't speak the language, then they show up days before classes expecting students to just accept them the way they are. they sent six people back to their countries from just one dept in the college of business last semester due to this. Ugh.) and he is tailor made to fill their needs. Plus the kids adore him. His evaluations are the highest in the college of business, not taht he realizes it. I know because I know these people and tehy tell me things they don't tell him. You have got to find these people and make yourself known, or the job won't happen. Maybe if you don't want to do daycare at home, you could bake and sell things? Knit/crochet doll clothes to sell? Around here sales for these things are really picking up. People are looking for local products rather than buying in chains when they can. Consider teaching knitting/crochet/cooking/whatever at the local michael's/joann's/whatever? or an area arts coop? [/QUOTE]
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