What method did you use to get your actual job?

There are different methods and sources you could use to get a job, which one is the most effective.

 

I used my college's website.

 

My current store manager used to be a regular customer of mine at the store I worked at before, plus she knows one of my previous managers that always has good things to say about me. Last year she told me if I ever wanted another job to come see her, and eventually I did. But it's not at all what I expected, and I'm still getting shitty pay so I'm looking for something else.

 

ya I just started talking to my boss when they were unloading their fish then I gave him my number and told him if he need someone to fill in give me a call

 

The poll got closed before I could respond with "Directly contacting the employer." I usually looked in the want ads for any job openings and contacted the ppl. Working in social services I sometimes went to the agencies and put in applications, knowing of the hi turnover rate in the field.

My current job I got because the boss had met me a couple years earlier at a symposium and saw me filling out an application outside his office (social service agency - I was just doing the fishing applications). He had me come into the office and did the intake interview on the spot. (I had biked there, not intending to do an interview so I was wearing cutoff shorts and a sweaty T-shirt) It's sort of a joke about wearing appropriate clothes to an interview. Been there for 9 years now. I wear more appropriate shorts and polo shirts to work now.

 

i just go in and ask them if they are hiring. usually if they need someone that bad, youre hired! ive been looking for a really chill job though and they seem to all be taken! im now back with my old job as a barista...

 

I am not currently employed in the job that I want for the rest of my life. I am in school to be a pharmacist. But in the past I have done the walking the street asking anyone that will listen to employ me. I have used personal contacts. I have used employment agencies. And I have lied. I have been in interviews and lied to their face about my past history.

I got a job on a cruise ship in Hawaii because I told them I had worked at a bar in Orlando. I told them the bar went out of business and I gave them my manager's phone number. Well, I actually gave them my old cell phone number when I was actually living in Orlando. Bar is out of business, my old phone number was changed (I said, "I guess my manager moved or got his number changed.) They hired me to work as a bar server, so I wasn't actually ever working behind the bar, but as a waiter of drinks.

Then I worked at the Royal Exchange hotel in Merrickville a suburb of Sydney, Australia. I had never worked behind a bar, but I told them that I had, just like I told the cruise ship people. I learned how to draw a beer out of a tap a couple of days earlier at the Newtown Hotel. I completely fucked up the first couple of pours when trying to draw a draught beer. But I learned quickly. Not quickly enough to be employed there at the Newtown, but when I went to the Royal Exchange, I was able to pour a flawless draught of Tooheys (Australia's finest beer. Screw Fosters.)

A lie isn't harmful if no one gets hurt, and its not illegal if you don't get caught, right?

Once I get my degree, and I can be certified as a doctor of pharmacy I won't have to lie to get a job. There is a lot of demand for pharmacists.

 

I went to a job fair at an events arena, and instead of hiring on with one of the employers at the fair, I ended up working for the arena itself.

 

I have a new job now, and once again I can thank good old nepotism.

 

The pull-out method.



Shit, thought I was in the Love&Sex forum.

 

I was juggling in the street, and a guy I had met at a music festival a few months earlier came and told me about it, since he was working there as well.

 

You must be from Kentucky. Nepotism is the sole driving factor in the work force around here. (And people wonder why I work in West Virginia.)

 

I applied online and followed up over the phone.

 

Well, the job I have was between me and another guy. The other guy was much more qualified than I am, he was actually the assistant of the guy that was leaving the position we were applying for for the previous 8 years. It all came down to the final day and in the end, I got my job because I had my brother intervene on my behalf. Oh, wait...that wasn't me, that was George W. Bush. I got mine from Careerbuilder.