Job hunting is a 'winner takes all' competition in which you're compared and judged against other applicants.
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I have been working with a company for a little over 3 months. I have observed the culture and the company has a moderately high turnover and people that leave unceremoniously with no notice. 1 person didn’t even let the company know that they quit but just never showed back to work.…
She told me a few weeks ago that "60% of her pay is going towards our other program" & that "70% of my pay is going towards this program." But u can still help me though. I help her with the other program wtf.…
So, yeah, I'm looking for the next great thing. Somehow, Monster appeared on my radar, so I thought, let's give this a go!
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I took a contracting position in August with a local company. I have not updated my LinkedIn profile. It still says #OpenToWork because I have viewed this as a "temporary" position. I have learned that I ill be presented with an offer to join the company as a FTE. Here's the rub…
I'm looking to switch my career path. One of my contacts, whose opinion I value, recommended someone who charges $500. I think an upgrade is necessary but I'm wondering how helpful it is. I was told that recruiters in this field look at what you post/comment on, as a demonstration of…
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Colleen Hanson
The first day on the job when I found out everything they told me in the interview and subsequent verbal offer of employment was a lie (i.e. pay, hours, benefits, family owned, etc.) I knew it was a bad fit. No one wants to work for a dishonest organization. Other times it is a lot less obvious. I had a great interview with the entire department I would potentially be working in (5 people) and they were all absolutely lovely. I left the interview extremely excited about the position and was elated to get the call that they wanted to hire me. The first day on the job the woman I was going to be working for primarily, who was beyond kind in the interview, was HORRIBLE to me! She even went so far as to call me an idiot less than an hour in. While I had worked in this field for 10+ years, each company is different in their processes and I simply asked for clarification on something before proceeding and was called an "idiot". Not to mention their processes were much different than previous positions I had held, so I was justified in asking. She turned out to be a terribly bitter person and I was not the first person to struggle (there was a long list of employees that she ran off). Unfortunately she had been with the company since it's inception, so they refused to let her go. After numerous meetings with the department head (both she and I) it became apparent her behavior was not going to change and upper management was not going to do anything about it, so I actually transferred to a different position within the company. I will say that at that point the company did not hire anyone else to work under her so she became solely responsible for "her" job and eventually left about 9 months later because she didn't want to do all the work on her own.
I do honestly believe that if you are feeling anxious, depressed or have a pit in your stomach each time you have to go to work, it is a bad fit.
Anonymous
As someone who has been working for quite some time I can always tell how my time with a company is going to go based on the first week of training. If I see ‘red flags’ left and right I’ll usually wait until the first week on the actual job to see how things really are. I’ve never once had a job where the bad training experience leads to the actual job being okay! Have yet to learn my lesson on this one