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| Trancealot |
Well good news has arrived. Lets start from sratch.
I graduated in May 05 from SUNY Binghamton University with a 3.2 GPA as a Mechiancal Engineering Student. Sounds good but you don't know my Background. I have no internship experience so I was ed in getting a job easy like many others I have seen already. After going to 5 job fairs and handing my resume to dumb bitches who throw them in a huge pile I thought I was screwed and was on my way to grad school. I did not want to go to school because then I be down another 10k so there goes my summer of fun and just work.
Then one day on monster.com I must of applied to over 50 places since April and someone replied to me back involving engineering. I have been contatced but for the mortgag business that I did for a month and quit because I truly hated it!!!!You understand unless you made it big in the Refi biz. If not then your like me. So I got the email and this temp agency send me to their place of work. I fill out tons of forms and the lady tells me two comanys are interested but one needs a aerospace d00d. Thats not me so peace out to that one. The other one is for a CNC operator(person who controls a machine that will create 3-d models using a wide range of materials)So seems good. She was like you got an interview next wed. I go and I have a great time speaking with they seemed cool and the guy mentioned
"oh with the stuf on your resume we have an engineering position instead of the CNC that would suit you better" I said thats even better. Right when I left the place I said do I have a position and the guy said yes but we have to wait until the president of the company is back from vacation July 12th. Here is the sucky part!!
Waiting until July 12th happy knowing I have something.
July 13th rolls around and nothing heard from them. I decide to call the temp agency to see if any proegress has ben made. She said she heard nothing!! This is were I begun to get pissed off. Next Monday rolls around July 18th and I heard nothing so I call again(temp agency) and the lady says we heard nothing. So now I am mad as like WTF is she doing like sleeping!!!! Or I thought someone else got the job. I feel pissed/depreesed/like all that bad that happens to everyone on TA every once in awhile when something bad happens to them.
Then today July 20th(ironic one month from my bday in June) I call the damn company thins morning and tell them I want to get to the bottom of this mess and see if I have a job/when it starts/someone take it already. Then she is like oh we were waitinf for you to choose the engineering job or the CNC job. All this time and they needed to know this. ing temp lady told me !!! Then ontop of that, the temp lady calls me and said oh they need you for a 2nd interview tomorrow at 11am. The only that gets done around here is by me and thats it.
The only advice I can give to getting a job
1)when your done with school is if you have an internship your freakin lucky becayse exp is more important that mater's degrees and PHD's unless the work place send your to get your maters or PHD when you have a job.
2)join all those web sites like monster/yahoo jobs and send your resume to anywhere its like luck anyways because this is the only job offer I have gotten and I may have it.
In conclusion its FREAKIN LUCK to get a job in 2005 and make sure you get those internships during school and if you know sonmeone who would help you get a job make sure your friends with him when your finish school(networking)! Thnak you for reading if you did because thats my past month right there and the funny thing is I still yet to work one day with the company but I hope in the next few days I will. Peace |
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| StanVoid |
| yea it's all abou the intraships, i'm wrapping one up right now |
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| Vyper0987 |
do you think people are joking when they say that internships are looked very highly upon?? they're not just feeding you crap...it's true.
and you're only two months out of school. i know people that didn't have jobs a year after they graduated (granted they were deadbeats in college...just went to class and nothing else). it all depends on the field that you're in and the job that you're looking for. it might be hard to get a job in the mechanical engineering field, but i know that with sarbanes-oxley going into effect, accounting firms are hiring accounting majors left and right.
i have an internship right now at an investment management firm. i've learned more in 2 months than all of last semester. it's honestly invaluable experience. |
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| jdat |
Well sorry to break it to you but there's several points you surely need to grow up on.
Applying to 50 jobs is NOTHING! The fact you got a job interview out of so little is GOOD. Be thankful that you may have an opportunity to go forward there if all goes well.
Secondly it is VITAL I repeat VITAL for you to know who is in charge when you are searching for a job and being in contact with a certain company. If you are waiting for a job from a specific company through a temp agency you MUST make contact with the company directly.
It is your own damn responsability to build the communication bridges between yourself and the company. Procedure dictates that in such circumstances you are to be in contact with the temp agency directly but that's far from being the best way to operate if you want things to go your way.
Ps: I'd like to remind you that the US has one of the lowest unemployement rates out there so stop saying it's hard.
Move to freaking Europe where your pay will be half as much but your chances of finding a job will be ten times harder. |
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| Mr. Pink |
| no internship= teh suckness |
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| THE_Chris |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
Ps: I'd like to remind you that the US has one of the lowest unemployement rates out there so stop saying it's hard.
Move to freaking Europe where your pay will be half as much but your chances of finding a job will be ten times harder. |
True.
I got my Physics degree this May - I didnt do quite well enough to realistically get a PhD. The college did no internship, no work placement, no job recommendations, nothing useful.
Try getting a job in that climate. A worthless, unspecialised degree that in my case, isnt good enough to allow you to progress to the only realistic career path. |
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| _Nut_ |
experience is key.
what happened with me:
BS in Meteorology 2004, certified GIS professional 2005
Uni GPA 3.23
Major GPA 3.7
(failed diffeq first time and got a d in partial diffeq thats why the uni one is not so good. plus i never went to gen eds.....)
2 internships, 2 management positions during a school year (one at a TV station and one for the NWS Co op program)
Hired and started training before graduation. The rest of my class (that isnt pursuing masters or PhD) = no job yet. Now here is the funny thing. I hate this job I have. ive applied and will most likely get hired for the govt. And I have alot of people who want to hurt me because I am job hoping in a market that is basically non existant.
Experience is ing key (dont do lame ass community service or become sausage fest frat president) do something even if it is unpaid in your field. I had 2 that were unpaid. That shows any employer that you mean business if you take to heart something for no pay. It will pay you back in the future.
Thats all bitches. |
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| SAEBodybuilder |
As others said, it's not the economy's fault you can't find a job, it's your lack of qualifications that is hurting your quest for a job. A degree means next to nothing in today's world where more and more people are going to college, getting Ds and getting degrees. If you haven't gotten some serious work experince throuhgout your 4 years of college and you haven't networked enough (on campus and off) to find a decent job out of the starting gate, then you ARE at a significant disadvantage. Be glad you got a 2nd interview.
Perhaps your resume needs some serious work if you're getting no hits at all. It might be worhtwhile to spend a few hours sprucing that up since all the places yhou are seeking employment are basing all of their initial decisions about you from this one-sided sheet of paper. Good luck man. |
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| smokeape |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancealot
In conclusion its FREAKIN LUCK to get a job in 2005 and make sure you get those internships during school and if you know sonmeone who would help you get a job make sure your friends with him when your finish school(networking)! Thnak you for reading if you did because thats my past month right there and the funny thing is I still yet to work one day with the company but I hope in the next few days I will. Peace |
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| yujie__ |
| its not what u know, its who you know :eyespop: |
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| Trancealot |
I did not know Europe has it harder for job search.
I know I am not at the bottom of bottoms because I found something 2 months out of school. My friend grad last may and did not find something until october. I will say it-->It is luck I got one
The only advice I know is experience is the goal for anyone going through college.
If you don't go to college you may have a plan in mind to better yourself for the future or your taking your time.
If you do go, its because you are fine tunning your skills for that tpye of job that needs higher education in to understand whats going on. I just hope anyone out there going through college right now can take my advice for the internship thinggyy. Make your damn resume freshman year if you have to and start banging it out to those employers if you know what your doing after graduation! |
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| Trancealot |
| quote: | Originally posted by yujie__
its not what u know, its who you know :eyespop: |
serioulsy. Thats how Bush became prez!:whip: plus his brother helped the vote in florida |
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