I have a number of job search sites that are free, a lot of what I see on the working ones are requiring experience, or is college recruitment spam. I spent an hour on the phone with CTU because of one of those sites. I might have a job soon, it isn't an inside job, and I don't know a lot of what I would be doing other than cleaning lots, assisting customers somehow (at a dealership), and probably washing cars. I would rather an inside job, but apparently an Associate in Arts and no experience except in scrubbing dishes and floors gets you anywhere.
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"Associate of Arts in Social and Behavioral Sciences" Basically says that I spent enough time in college to cover the basics. As I understand it, A.A.s are barebones kind of things. I would have probably gotten further if I had more faith in the college I was attending. You are required to be in class on time, but the bus might be late a half-hour with no explanation. "Our councilors will help you pick the classes that you need for your plans," just sometimes they are so wrong that you take at least a year and a half worth of classes that were completely wrong to no consequence to them, but still costs me the same in books and tuition. Teachers that expect the highest of respect, and just kind of wing class some days (poorly at that). The head of the engineering department apparently thinks that for "Intro to Engineering" spending a semester with the class reading a book about studying about engineering is a good idea, rather than introduce the class to basics of engineering, and involving the class in the field. The biology department has 0 budget, which is shown in the 10-20 year-old microscopes, whose numbers are dwindling due to parts breaking down with no source of replacements. Before I left, they were still putting a lot of money into stupid little things to make it look pretty on the outside, while cutting funds to classes and raising the rates for the students.
Basically, my resume has something that shows I have my general ed. done in college, giving me enough to graduate; some adult education in Medical Billing and Coding (which is basically useless since I needed Medical Office classes to substantiate it, which were getting cut as I was taking classes), experience scrubbing dishes, and helping out at a dealership for 2 separate temporary periods.
Now I have moved a state north, since I still live with my parents, and they did it for family reasons. I just want enough income to move out, then I can consider education that may lead me to a more stable position in life, but I don't know if I can do that on a full time work schedule, with minimal pay.
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Basically I screwed myself at that college for losing heart, and they screwed me by making me lose heart.
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Honestly I feel your pain and have no real solution but I am sorry it is happening and sadly it is all too common reality atm. I am kinda in a similar situation if it helps. So I spent a good year or so job hunting (yes all that miserable work to find the perfect job). Well I didn't find my dream job but I found a job. You know the kind you still look forward to decent salary horrible hours, perverted full of himself boss lol. Well a month and a half into my job I get called in due to "budget cuts" and am informed I could either take a serious pay cut or lose my job. Mind you when I say serious it's not nickels and dimes, I'm talking more then triple my salary. So yeah seeing as is I worked my bottom off to get a masters degree and credentialing and all that goodness, I would love to work for a quarter above minimum... NOT!!! Lol so of course my only other option was back to the job hunt. Which I can safely say I am still actively engaged in... well sorta I am having more luck picking up things here or there. But the moral of the story is; It is a crummy time and it really sucks hunting for that perfect job. But really keep your chin up because it will come in time it's just a horrible wait for it. Furthermore, although it seems like times can be very hard on you now once you do get out of the hole a bit you will come to see all that stress you were feeling was nowhere near as bad as you thought. Keep at it! I have faith in you <3
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Actually, I did get my current job as a result of a listing on careerbuilder.com. The company happened to advertise there, I went to their own website and applied and was hired the next day after I applied. So yeah, they do work, but you definitely have to be persistent and know what is a scam and what isn't.
What annoys me is that even though I have removed all my information and even deleted my accounts on job search sites, I still get spam from people who saw my resume on there. Even more annoying because two years ago I moved to another city, so I get spam for stuff available in the old city which is a two hour drive away so it's completely useless even if I was looking for a job, which I'm not.
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Is it just me, or does 90% of job search websites and job application websites, only barely work. As in, go to check on the info on a job, and the site seems to work briefly, then redirects you to the same page, just non-functioning except for the redirect it already used and will again and again until you close the page. Or the search engines they force you to use to try to focus on jobs you are capable of doing or are qualified for, and they either don't work, or reset when you are forced to go directly into each job listing you are interested in, rather than letting you look at it in a new tab or window. I understand that they would like to automate a lot of things, but if it doesn't work or if it only barely works, maybe they ought to not use it, and do it with either craigslist and live with the potential extra work and spam, or with walk-ins and the newspaper.
I have been looking for a full time job for a while, and apparently for nearly everything they expect over a year of experience for even the most basic of jobs, and I am just getting frustrated,and needed to vent. Don't get me started with the craigslist scams, as people that lose money to those guys should have seen it coming, I just wish I don't have to waste my time applying to scams to get the "position is filled, I am out of town/state/country, I want to hire you as my personal assistant, your duties include these vague things, give me personal info and a bank account I direct deposit you pay to." I often can spot them before I apply, but as 90% of jobs require experience, only 10% of the leftover 10% are scams.
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