OK. So the roommate and I were looking through Craigslist the other day and the roommate was complaining that there should be a separate section on there for internships. It seems like every job you click on these days ends up being an internship. At the time, I told the roommate, gentle readers, that I didn’t mind so much as long as the title of the post made it clear that it was an internship opportunity. Then, even if filed under a section that I was perusing, I could simply ignore the unpaid positions.
The problem is that it’s just not that simple. Every day I click on more and more headlines that seem to promise jobs and it’s yet another unpaid internship. And another. And another.excellent opportunity growing wholesale company
Reply to: job-nfg7s-1217074694@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-06-11, 6:20PM EDT
Unpaid Internship - Great growing wholesale company, sells linens to hotels and retailers. Also, affiliated with larger apparel company. Work directly for president of the company as an executive assistant. The position provides excellent trainging in all aspects of the business including sales, production, merchandising, and overall company management. Please email credentials including resume or other qualifications.
Um. Excellent opportunity to work your ass off for free.
If the company is growing so well, why can’t they PAY the president’s executive assistant? Hm?
Fun With Craigslist
Daily Links - September 16, 2009
- Did You Get My Resume? I Really Want This Job (Follow up after sending a resume)
- Q#283 - How Do I Network In an Unknown Language?
- The Four Biggest Challenges Facing New Grads (Part I)
- 4 Career Success Stories That Inspire
- Tips for applying to a job from Craigslist. (Older but still relevant)
- Being Real Will Get You The Job, Seriously
- Good Interview Tips
- Guide to Getting Hired Quickly
A Reblog: Thou Shall Separate from the Pack
Great anecdote from dioriofotografia:
This post is meant to stress the importance of being a non-conformist when searching for jobs. Not only a non conformist, but those that are willing to be progressive; willing to put themselves out on the line to set themselves apart from the cookie cutter molds typically seen in society and by employers.
A best friend of mine Joseph Vincent Wagner, Joey Pots and Pans, or Jose Wagnarly, has recently applied for upwards of 40 jobs. Of these 40 jobs he has not gotten any responses or feedback from any of the potential employers.
He came across an offer on craigslist that read:
“Entry Level Sales and Marketing - Ninjas Only!!! (San Jose)”
He decides to send his resume to the company along with the photo I took of him on our ninja photo adventure in the redwoods. Within a couple hours he gets a response from the company, lands an interview, goes in the next day and nails it. He is now set to shadow an employee and do a final interview on Monday, putting him in a position to work in an up and coming advertising agency earning a very good salary with benefits.
They thoroughly enjoyed his sense of humour and out of the box thinking, not being afraid to throw something like that out there. When applying for jobs…your resume is lost in a stack of hundreds, sometimes even thousands, so before you send it think about a way to make yours really stick out. Not to mention his major is criminal justice bringing me on to another point, where if you have the skills and right attitude a company is looking for, they don’t care what your major is.
Takeaway:
“When applying for jobs…your resume is lost in a stack of hundreds, sometimes even thousands, so before you send it think about a way to make yours really stick out… if you have the skills and right attitude a company is looking for, they don’t care what your major is.”
Great story and advice.
Tips for applying to a job from Craigslist→
via bluefly and craigslist comes some honest advice:
I respect failure, and I look for potential. Yet, it seems to be common practice to BS on resume’s nowadays. It’s ok to be proud of your accomplishments, but a little modesty makes you look human. I’d much rather meet with someone who admits they’ve failed, than someone who pretends they’ve always been successful.
“I successfully led a ten person team to generate sales of $200,000”
Yeah, ok… but I’d respect that person even more if they had the balls to write this :
In my last job, I had ten people working for me. It was stressful, and I didn’t have a clue about how to manage at the time. Two of my team resigned in the first month, and I found it difficult to motivate the other eight who were all older than me. We still met our quota, but I was let go. To be fair, I was in over my head at the time. I have since been to two leadership training seminars, and I can see now where I went wrong.
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