oh the irony....

[kimba1]

I was looking the week I was let go. I asked the client what company bidded for this contract.I even spoked to the manager who took over and he wanted me the very moment we met. But he`s not the one who hires,but at least he got me direct access to the company site

http://www.ricohcareers.com/SearchResults.aspx

I applied for all of the relevent ones. I`m thinking of getting multiple e-mail address to bypass the one application limit so i can use different resumes to get the right key words. But that might backfire on me.

I average over a half a dozen of these jobs aweek and got no responses. I started looking for jobs with low pay and no benefits the 3rd month knowing Thats the magical period were all people should give up the fantasy. It`s pretty tough seeing all these jobs knowing you can do them and knowing it`s not going to happen.I never once stopped looking,but the reality the longer this take the less desireable I am to hire is a hard reality to ignore.remember it`s easy to ignore people on the computer.

Note cu I have a greater incentive to look for work than the average person. I pay over $500.00 for my medication and do not qualify for any help till I`m totally without funds.  I gave up looking for jobs with insurance months ago.

[Plane]

   It still helps to know someone within the company, even if they require resume's be submitteds via website, a friend can flag your file.

     Networking is what they call it.

       Is there someone that has seen you work, and would vouch for your value?

[Xavier_Onassis]

if i became unemployed I would find work within 48 hours...100% no doubt.

Suuuuuuure you would!

[kimba1]

Sadly the guy who replaced me seen my work and wanted me to join. He and his supervisor tried real hard but they simply don't have the influence.

So far the only reliable way to get a job is networking.

[Christians4LessGvt]

Suuuuuuure you would!

Dude I made $100 cash a day decades ago when I was 19 years old by
buying a bucket of concrete paint & a stencil set painting home address
numbers on curbs. Even named my company "City Curb Addressing" and
didnt mind if some folks thought I was an arm of the city.....that many years
ago at least $100 cash a day while in college was pretty sweet.

I would wait tables, wash dishes, paint curbs, there are tons of jobs available
on Craiglist.....hell millions and millions of uneducated non-english speaking
come here basically with only a shirt on their back and they find work.....
I think it would be much less than 48 hours for me.

[kimba1]

If was 19 of course i can do all those thing. I can and work 16plus hours often.47 is another reality.
But are you accusing me of sitting idle. This whole time I've been trolling to web grabing ever free computer lessons i can get my hands on to be current

http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0

[BT]

Kimba,

Expand your circle. Are there copier recyclers in your area? The ones who buy off lease copiers and resell them. They might need a tech to make sure the machines are operable. Or they might need an on call tech to cover the copiers while under warranty.

Or maybe they need a sales guy who knows how to demonstrate the features of these last generation copiers.

[BT]

Target a company and create the position. They might not know they need a guy with your existing skill set.

[Plane]

   I heard of a trick,you copy the job description on the computer application.

    Write the resume on top of that, then changed the font of the job description that you had pasted there to tiny and white to match the background.
    Of course all of the key words were there, and still readable by the keyword counting program.

     Naturally by the time I had heard of this, most personell managers had heard of it already, highlighting the big blank space would reviel the trick.

     But if you have the job description, I would still suppose it to be a good sorce of key words.




By the way , should an employer avoid overqualified employees?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/02/22/147256842/why-are-harvard-grads-in-the-mailroom

[kimba1]

What's strange and it might only be happening to me is several of the very few callbacks ask if I'm A+ certified. I never mentioned my computer skills becaused even I don't know what level I am. My question is the demand so high that I get asked this question randomly?

My skill are derived from whatever I learned maintaining my stuff and trolling the forums for advice and with big thanks advice here also.It still stuns me the large percent of people don't know what OS they have.