Welcome to the inaugural issue of Anti-Job Thursday! Today we will be talking about job fairs and why they are useless and leave you at a dead end. So have you ever been looking for that J-O-B and saw that there was a huge job fair? Where you are guaranteed an interview on site (a critical step to getting a job)? Well, let me tell you this: job fairs SUCK balls. You know why? Because while you’re out searching for something, you also have a million and one people at the same place searching for the same damn job! And if you have less experience, you’re at a loss. Because they’re sorting through a million and one applications, yours may be left out and not even looked at. I remember going to job fairs after reading the newspapers and browsing around on the streets and seeing people lined up by the dozen with applications in their hands, all hoping to get a job. They will no doubt look at those with more experience first, but then when they get to those with less experience, it’s like a lottery: You COULD get lucky and get picked for the job, but it is unlikely.
The only reason to go to a job fair is if you have experience at a position. Like, YEARS, not MONTHS. If you can incessantly push that point across, not to mention the awards and recognition that you have, you have the best shot. But with little to no experience? You’d have a better chance of lifting an elephant with one arm than getting that job. So DON’T waste your time with job fairs. You’d be better off going to a place where they are not doing a mass hiring. One where they need just a few people and not a million people.
Always remember: If it doesn’t work for me, it won’t work for you. Chase the pipe dream. Live the pipe nightmare.
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Anti-Job Thursday