RSSTwitter: KeishaB

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That New Job Will Cost Me How Much?

With the announcement of the The Ladders new Signature program that guarantees you will land a job within six months or your money back, I’m disheartened at how todays market is so against the American worker. $2495 smack-a-roos for job coaching, a resume overhaul and job leads.

I know job coaches have existed for ages. Resume service agencies have been raging since the dot com boom, but really? Companies pay search firms for talent. Now the talent has to pay a mint to find the job also?
I know job coaches have existed for ages. Resume service agencies have been booming since the dot com boom, but really? Companies pay search firms for talent. Now the talent has to pay to find the job also? Can you imagine Monster.com charging clients to search for jobs? [...]

June 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

Girl You Ain't Got No Skilz

I’m pissed off and feeling desperate all at the same time. It’s a horrible feeling. In the past four months I’ve been kicked off of unemployment twice because I ran out time to collect my allocated benefits. If they’ll only release one check a week how the hell do I run out of time to collect them? I’m ready to go kick someone’s ass down at somebody’s state office somewhere here in the city. Oh, wait. Damn! I have no money on my metro card. Well, when I get my next check I’ll be down there!

In the meantime I’ve been looking for cash only gigs to help me illegally supplement my unemployment benefits while I look for a job and finish draft two of my novel. After an in-depth perusal on craigslist I realize that my business degree and corporate experience, global or not, has really left me at a disadvantage. [...]

July 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment - (Comments are closed)