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09-01-2009, 07:40 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 12
| Job Hunting... Is anyone else out there finding it IMPOSSIBLE to find a job? I graduated in May from college and I am having no luck with finding a job. I am beginning to think I am the only one; everyone I know that graduated with me is getting hired left and right. |
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09-01-2009, 08:55 AM | #2 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Satellite Beach, FL
Posts: 3,691
| What was your major? Ask your friends, who have been hired, to look at their resumes, cover letters etc. |
09-01-2009, 12:05 PM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 315
| I'm in the same boat...well kinda! I don't have a college degree, just years of experience, and not as young as you. I have applied and applied and applied again to no avail. I will keep applying! and praying!!! |
09-01-2009, 12:21 PM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Alberta
Posts: 980
| I'm also having a hard time finding a job. The place I worked got shut down last year, and it's just been nothing. I've been keeping my eye out and trying to stay positive. Hopefully soon, something will come up. |
09-01-2009, 12:40 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chicago Suburbs
Posts: 3,306
| Yep! I have a college degree but I'm only looking for something part time and I'm not having any luck. One job had callbacks for a PART TIME position, just a dinky little part time position and they were doing rounds of interviews... I think our market is pretty bad here. I really want to move! |
09-02-2009, 09:30 AM | #6 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Rossville, Georgia
Posts: 972
| My husband has been out of work for 7 months. He just went back to work today. There are literally NO JOBS out there. The ones that are listed have upward of l00 applying for the one position. Many of the jobs listed are not being filled or are listed to keep temp services in business. There is no actual job. It makes me upset to hear our President talk about the #1 issue is health care reform. Wrong! The number 1 issue is jobs. Without jobs there is limited spending and many people are having to move from their homes and apts. and having their cars repossessed. It is a sad situation.
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09-02-2009, 11:00 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chicago Suburbs
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| Well I think health care reform goes with the job crisis. People's health insurance is tied to their jobs, and in my opinion it shouldn't be. Businesses are cutting back on full time positions to save on benefits. One position i applied for was 30 minutes shy of full time. Not because they couldn't shell out the extra $6 a week for the extra 30 minutes, but because they couldn't afford to pay for the insurance. Health care is definitely the #1 issue at our house. My husband works for a small business that does not pay for his plan (but thankfully has one, because we were denied for individual coverage for pre-existing conditions.) Our premium costs as much as our mortgage. We pay so much because he works for a small company. If he worked for a large corporation we would probably pay 1/2 as much (larger pool) but not everyone desires to work for a large company. I don't understand why we all can't have the same chance for coverage? My property taxes pay for our teachers' fancy insurance - yet I can't get insurance myself?? We would have so much more freedom if health care was not tied to our jobs. I have a college degree but I've worked mostly as a secretary because my health isn't so great and I needed jobs with good insurance and didn't have the option to do internships or whatever to work my way up the ladder to a job with fancy benefits. If I didn't have to worry about insurance I would have had a lot more options, career wise. Interviewers don't like it when your first question is about health insurance, but mine has to be. That doesn't fly right now when 100 more people are lined up for that job. Anyway, I heard an interesting theory on the radio yesterday - lowering the SS/Medicare retirement age. That way people like my father (an engineer) who is close to retirement age and could financially retire but is still working for the health insurance could retire and open up a spot for someone out of work or a recent college grad. If those people qualified for medicare, could tap into their retirement funds, etc. they would be more likely to choose to retire. More young people working means more people paying into medicare, supporting the old folks. And less unemployment (16% of the work force is over 55, and unemployment is around what 12%?) means less demand for jobs which means employers need to pay MORE to get good employees which means higher salaries, more people paying more taxes, etc. I thought it was a neat idea. I think he called it "cash for geezers" LOL It's a good discussion to have but no one is having it because everyone is yelling at each other right now. I also think higher salaries would help the housing crisis. I've said for a long time that housing prices weren't sustainable because the increases were far exceeding the increases in incomes (which have remained quite flat) Our tiny townhouse is worth far less than we paid for it because far fewer people can afford it with a "real" mortgage and 20% down, whereas 5 years ago anyone could buy it with some creative financing. We bought the smallest house available, WAY out in the boonies (we are barely considered Chicago suburbs) but we were tired of living in an apartment. Now we are stuck. What did we do wrong? If incomes go up, more people could afford to pay the asking prices and the housing market will regulate. I also think if people/employers weren't paying hundreds (or thousands!) of dollars a month for health insurance that salaries would go up. It's all related! The one group seriously caught up in this are the recent college grads. Many wait tables or work retail until they land a full time job, but they've aged out of their parents' insurance and part time jobs don't pay benefits. Since there aren't any jobs, a situation that may have lasted the summer after college is lasting a lot longer! My young cousin had a new job when he got cancer. They dropped him because they said it was pre-existing(!) Thank goodness his mom was able to pay out of pocket (probably her whole retirement fund) until he was well enough to get a new job with better insurance. He didn't do anything wrong, but he got stuck in the middle of this health care crisis. What if you have a kid who needs constant medical care - it takes 90 days at most new jobs to get your insurance. Those people are stuck in their jobs right now. How many have the skills to go out and be entrepreneurs, or even just get a job with a higher salary, but are stuck being a corporate drone or working at Starbucks or Walgreens just so their kid can go to the doctor. I used to work at a school. I've seen it happen. But if those people could move up the ladder it would open up those entry level jobs for the college grads and get the whole system moving again! |
09-02-2009, 02:46 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Posts: 723
| I'm one of those caught in the middle of this (isn't almost everyone though?). I just recently graduated, having earned my masters in social work. Of course there's a demand for social workers but good luck finding a place that's actually hiring! I knew things would be bad but wasn't sure how bad when I graduated. Thankfully my family helped me plan. I took out extra loan money to pay for bills in case I couldn't find a job right away. I am also truly lucky in that while I can no longer be on my parent's insurance I found a somewhat decently priced insurance (hahaha over $2k for me alone isn't decent but it's better than the alternative I guess). And my parents will pay for it as long as they can. Which isn't saying much since my mother lost her job of over 20 years the beginning of the summer. I think it's unfortunate that so many people are suffering. It is not only limited to those with no education or poor finances. This extends to everyone! From me, the recent graduate, my 56 year old mother that worked 20-30 hours a week at a company for over 20 years and still gets fired, my father a real estate lawyer that's trying to stay afloat by doing foreclosures, to everyone else! My only positive comment on all of this though is that I just sent my resume for an actual open position. Normally I've just sent it off to people, hoping they could find something, but nothing with an open listed job. Who knows what'll happen but that's certainly a bit encouraging!
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09-02-2009, 02:47 PM | #9 |
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| I hope you will find a job soon...
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