Its week 3 of my job hunt, and let’s just say I’m less than pleased with the amount of jobs in my locality. Oh there are plenty of jobs for foodservice, secretarial, and the like, but for me the outlook in social work is slim. This confuses me, as the business itself is booming.
My current job search strategy is to look every other day at the online job board websites to see if new jobs have been posted. I am also looking at the specialty boards to see if they are being posted there as a lot of the time you’ll find a juicy job on a special private list and not on the Monsters and Career Builders. As a matter of fact, signing up for these monster’s and career builders with a public profile only does one thing. It increases the spam inflow into your inbox.
I cannot count the number of misspelled Vacancy announcements I receive for sales jobs from companies who can’t spell their own name. Thankfully my Gmail spam filter does a good job of relegating them to the trash, but it’s still sad that I get about 10 of these per day.
Also if you think that getting help would be an easy task, think again. I have approached the department for the Vision Impaired and have told them my situation. I have also told them what I am doing. I get zilch. I’m told that I’m doing everything they know how to do, and that it’s hard for everyone to get a job. Hey folks, I am qualified to work for you. I am qualified to be a vocational counselor with my social work background. I am qualified to be a counselor, teacher, policy analyst, secretary, communications guru, consultant, and program manager. Did they think to ask me for an interview, no!
I’m searching the boards so often now that I’m seeing links that say “applied already” beside jobs. I’m getting calls for jobs I have previously applied for, and taking the interviews, but I’ve applied to so many at this point I just smile and play along with the crowd because I don’t know which job is what.
Yes, I’m complaining, but I’m unemployed. I need to pay bills. I need to make rent and keep food coming in. I will volunteer my time, but I need a job … badly.
Slow down Moses is right. I need a vacation from being unemployed.
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