Just another number

Careers for people who "don't like people"

Sometimes people CAN'T "change tis mentality".

Floridamom... a couple of suggestions:

#1 Take the Myeres Briggs/MBTI
#2 Take the Aspie Quiz (http ...

College Grad: Totally Screwed

It's all purely intentional. Get you into Debt and they control you forever.

You are actually lucky. You didn't buy into the "education" scam later in life and ...

Careers with night shift hours

EDIT the above...

WTH? I type in "www.posting assistant.com" into my browswe and it gets me squat, but the auto-generated link above works fine ... p>

Sorry ...

Careers with night shift hours

Interesting... www.postingassistant.com goes nowhere...

Ah well.

Megazell... Be VERY careful spending your "windfall" on a degree.

IMO the WORST ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

That whooshing noise is my point being missed entirely...

Those operations being paid BY THE JOB HUNTER have almost ZERO incentive to actually see their client get hired ...

Two Year Degree and can't get a decent job with it

Except that the ONLY people the RRs will hire are people in their tweens straight out of school.

After 30 they won't even look at you, school or no.

Two Year Degree and can't get a decent job with it

[QUOTE who="MauEvig in Arkport, New York"]Hi there, I can't believe it's been a year since I posted this topic in here.
I've had a few jobs since then, none that ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

Buh Bye shill...

Network Marketing

[QUOTE who="RJ in Chicago"]...Education is the surest way to wealth, folks. Stop being so ignorant. The world is catching up to us.[/QUOTE]

In my experience ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="S Albright in San Francisco, California"]I understand one of the reasons they want it that way is because it saves them tons of manpower because the online ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="ecafyelims in Hazleton, Pennsylvania"]Bosco,

I'm convinced; this company is a total scam. I was first flagged when I saw they used 3 different website ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

Hey, as long as an agency actually PLACES someone, and doesn't charge up front, I'm all for it.

Finding one is the problem.

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

I'm all for "better ways" that don't add to my debt load...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

Hey Bosco... isn't it interesting that neither "Bob" nor Anonymous address my contentions but would rather cast stones at you? Go figure...

Yo, "Bob" ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="Anonymous"]Sales consultants don't handle clients, marketing directors do, and that turnover doesn't exist in the marketing department.

It is obvious ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="Anonymous"]...But, if you're confident that the job you want can be had off of a job board, then best of luck to you.[/QUOTE]

Funny you would say that ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

BTW, if I want a Gazebo, I'll pay a contractor a small deposit then he will build it. He doesn't get the balance of payment until completion.

Also, most marketing companies ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

So, again, Anon... what your company does is pervert the system of finding the best candidate for the job and replaces it with "marketing" the candidate who can pay the ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

OK anon... I'll repost what I said back on Page 1.

Ok Anonymous... try this: If ITS has such a good business model and a high success rate then it should not have to charge ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

One of the reasons the job market is so screwed up is because of firms like ITS.

The importance of actual skill and corporate value has been replaced by Cash and Smarm.

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

Mary, doesn't it make more sense for a recruiter to work for the company? Someone who gets paid by the job seeker needs to churn job seekers. The get paid whether the job is a ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

Here's how useful the BBB ratings are...

http://tinyurl.com/d7v8rd

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="theresa in Denver, Colorado"]Bosco,
What is your issue with ITS since you've had NO experience? This is absolutely crazy. If you are so successful and ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="Dave P in Grove City, Ohio"]Yes, I have read them and in my opinion you have to be willing to work at it. I believe those people thought you pay the money and ...

Two Year Degree and can't get a decent job with it

[QUOTE who="andjusticeforall in Columbia, Maryland"]These days a degree is like a ticket to board the next plane in life. It does nothing to prepare you for the experience ...

Network Marketing

Four - count them - FOUR identical posts! At least you put this one where it belongs...

Finding a job with little experience?

Third identical spam of this scam so far... how cool can you be?

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

[QUOTE who="Bosco in Orlando, Florida"]And here we have yet another MLM SCAM!! Please take your little pyramid scheme somewhere else ... QUOTE]

That has been ...

Graphic Designer Needs a Career Change

Hi Brandon. Nice Spamming of the boards...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

While I am glad for you, what sucks about that whole deal is, again, as usual, it matters less what the KSAs of the applicant are than whether or not they had the $$$ &/or ...

Two Year Degree and can't get a decent job with it

[QUOTE who="sleary in Staten Island, New York"]... a degree is like having a condom, "Its better to have it, and not need it, than to need it and not have it.[/QUOTE ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

So, what's your Vertical Rolly?

I've been looking at AZ... but finding a Recruiter that works with Aspies is tough...

(email is cool)

Two Year Degree and can't get a decent job with it

The skills I have are all combat related or non quantifiable.... except for the "degree" that I am still trying to pay off that no one finds interesting.

The fact ...

Two Year Degree and can't get a decent job with it

[QUOTE who="stevenrdl in Charlottesville, Virginia"]You should have went to school to be a technician, or something in the medical field. About the only 4 year degree that ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

No Rejection Letter/Contact seems to be the Rule rather than the exception.

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="frankhotdogs in New York, New York"]Just another number,

I'm glad you saw that.

It's too bad so many people don't know the first thing about ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="frankhotdogs in New York, New York"]...
And Justanothernumber, I hope that you are inspired to fight against the superficial judgements of certain types ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="kmm in Wilmington, Delaware"]It means everything. We are judged in the work world and in our social environemnt outside of work by the presentation of our ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="kmm in Wilmington, Delaware"]As I do not understand "Asperger's" - again, somehow i would suggest (perhaps at the unemployment rescource center) do a ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="Displaced Legal Professional in Denver, Colorado"]I agree, but only to a point. Even extreme introverts can summon up enough loquaciousness to get through an ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="Displaced Legal Professional in Denver, Colorado"]... To succeed in an interview and, to a very large extent, at the job, to some degree you must play the game ...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

Ok, let me point out a few things - you are concerned about "how (I) sell yourself or present (my)self"...

Exactly what does that have to do with my abilities?

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

You know Bianca, it wouldn't have to be true if you didn't let it.

YOu have described precicely why it is almost impossible for someone like me to get a job. None of you ...

Convicted Felon from Columbus OH, looking for work.

Hmmm... We are "retards" yet you type about executing everyone who "brakes" the law.

I wonder if we can execute people for being poor spellers with no ...

Finding a job with little experience?

I'm 40. I was in the service for 8 years before I was RIFd (fired) by the Clinton military "loathing" cutbacks...

I wish I had had a 40 year career...

Finding a job with little experience?

Mike, are you sure you are not me?

Probably not, since I'm older.

Just consider my experiences as an amalgam of Ronald & Mike... in Chicago.

And now the ...

Graphic Designer Needs a Career Change

Dawna: Can't tell you much about Cali, but here in Chicago there is a new school JUST for GD/CGI/Film types. It's called Flashpoint Academy and is in the heart of Downtown Chicago ...

Personal Marketing Firm- Paying a Recruiter to find you a job. Scam or real deal?

You know, "Recruiter in Chicago", I'd come talk to/call/email you but you don't have a link...

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.

KSA is the term most often used by OPM or other Government/Govt regulated job listings.

10 minute interview vs. 10 years of experience

[QUOTE who="Dean Suraci in Cornwall, New York"]Hey Frankie,

A person usually gets hired for 2 reasons. The first reason is that they have the skills set to do the ...