The First Job: Referrals
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Quick tip today.
Still not hired? Getting your foot in the door at your favorite company can be difficult. The dirty secret is that companies like to hire reliable, smart, competent individuals. But before you copy/paste those keywords into your cover letter, consider an alternative route. The best way for a company to check if you meet these obvious standards is to ask someone who they already know. And there’s your ticket.
Referral programs may be the holy grail of the job market. Now all that partying networking in college pays off.
Hop on Facebook or MySpace or whatever you kids use these days, and hit up that successful old roommate of yours. If you can score a job, your buddy gets a nice paycheck bump while you get the opportunity to squander your youth in a job you’ll eventually resent. Win-win.
Mr. James Goes to Nigeria [part one]
Subject: Reply to Online Classified Ad: Playstation 2
Good Day,
I hereby to inform you that am interested in your Playstation 2 for sale.
Do let me know if you still have it for sale. Tell me your last offer also
send me the pictures if you have them with you and let me know the present
condition ok? Looking forward to hearing from you and take care. Do write
me back through my personal address below jamessmith1960jss@yahoo.co.ukSincerely, Mr James.
The First Job: Shotgun Approach
That diploma suuuure looks good, doesn’t it? All that hard work and sacrifice, spelled out in curvy letters and signed by the Governor. But now, after your post-graduation trip to Europe, you can’t even afford a damn frame for that beauty. Time to get some money.
With the economy sitting in a negative first derivative and US companies digging in for the long-haul, getting an entry college-level job is as difficult as it’s ever been in our lifetime.
Now that you’ve got your resume nice and pretty, send it out in bulk. In this job market, I highly advocate the shotgun strategy. Most tech companies these days have a decent career page with a bulk-apply option. Just make sure to attach a somewhat personal cover-letter to mask your job-sluttiness.
Fringineering: The Crane Game
photo: geekologie.com
I pretty much rock at the Crane Game.
The “Crane Game” or “Claw Game”, for the fortunate few who have never been to Denny’s, consists of an enclosed glass closet full of toys, usually stuffed-animals, and a mechanical claw hanging from the ceiling. Inserting money grants you an allotted time frame to position the claw over your desired toy. The claw drops, closes, and most likely fails to grasp your prize. Your child cries, and your girlfriend leaves you.
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