I’m still waiting on the whole, floodgates-of-opportunity-bursting-open thing to happen. I don’t mean that to be as passive as it sounds. I’ve been working my hoo-hah off trying to get a job, and I only have about thirty days before I throw my hands up and contact a temp agency (which might be just as [...]
There’s Your Karma.
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Bon? Non.
I am kind of obsessed with allmusic.com, so much that I actually might pursue them for employment. I also use it to justify my musical snarkiness, like “Yes, U2 was inexcusably lazy on that Instant Karma charity album for Darfur!” (Think you’re too good for Lennon, Bono? I will so kick your ass. Nobody disses my [...]
Let’s do lunch.
Hi friends!
As you all know, I’ve been working my hoo-haa off trying to get a job in marketing/advertising/promotions/pretty much anything that’s cool.
I am on the LinkedIn, which is kind of a Facebook for Yuppies, but nevertheless a great networking tool. If you’re on it, please link to me:
I wish my life was as great as my MySpace page makes it look.
I feel like I’m stumbling around knowing that sometime mid-summer there’s going to be a big Do-Over Button and I’ll have this great new job - nay, a CAREER — a new apartment. A dog!
Want! to! push! the! button!
…We’re moving to Indianapolis. I needed a scope, a scene. Also, when your boyfriend intends to continue living with you, he [...]
divide by pi. then sort the mail.
In order to be a “Online Sales Administrative Assistant” (read: secretary) for Google, you have to have a “BA/BS from a top-flight university.”
Thanks, Google, that makes me feel really good about myself.
I should have worked a little harder in high school,
graduated from Yale,
so THEN I could prepare your expense reports.
Spring Break 2K7: Will Flash Boobs for Food
The Best Buy debacle ironed itself out quite nicely with a nice talking-to from my general manager. [wha happon]? It was a big communication problem, apparently, so my freak out was somewhat appropriate with the information I had, but now that I know the story, I feel like a total drama queen. Which I am. [...]
Hello, Self-Loathing? Speaking.
So…that was anti-climatic, huh?
Not getting the job offer at Starcom took me right back to not getting into Northwestern when I was seventeen. (Maybe the state of Illinois has it out for me, I don’t know.) There’s so much hype and anticipation, and the waiting only makes you want it more, makes you think you deserve it [...]
For Your Information…
Dear Jennifer,
Thank you for taking the time to meet with us to discuss employment opportunities at Starcom MediaVest Group. After careful consideration of your background and abilities, we are not able to find an appropriate fit for you within our organization at this time.
We do wish you the best of luck as you progress [...]
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I promised to write every day of December and I already failed on December 2nd.
Nice job, N00B.
A pitcher of margaritas has a way of inciting free-flowing thought, so here’s some random things…
I keep having dreams about this possible impending job offer (which is no surprise, as it is all I can think about). Last night, [...]
Deliver the Lett-ah, the Sooner the Bett-ah
You know…
I thought this whole “waiting-on-a-job-offer” thing was going to be cake.
Leaving Chicago, I was beaming! I knew that, in the end? if I got a big, fat ding letter, I’d feel secure in the fact that I did my best. But I’ll be damned that if each day that passes, I am not becoming a nervous [...]
What I’ve Been Up To…(Or, if Mr. Smith is reading: “To What I’ve Been Up”)
Now that I’m back on the face of the earth (kind of)…
CHICAGO
I headed to Chi-town last Thursday night for my interview at Starcom MediaVest Group. My parents arranged for me to stay a night at a hotel downtown, because a) I have the best parents in the world (who really, really, want me get a job, [...]
“FINGERBANGIN’!”
I forgot to mention that I saw The Wreckers at Jake’s (formerly known as “The Tap,” formerly known as “Axis,” which I will always refer to as “Cracksis”) last Wednesday with Curtis and Toby.
It had been such a crappy day up until that point — what with my electricity being turned off and me cleaning [...]
Look, I’m in a nutshell! How did I get into this great big bloody nutshell?!
First off - His Holiness the Dalai Lama is coming to Bloomington. (Okay, so he’s coming next October — but he’s COMING! I got the e-mail.) I am on the mailing list for the Tibetan Cultural Center, where I visited a few weeks ago and took GORGEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS of their lotus pond. Unfortunately, you will [...]
STAR-motherf*cking-COM.
So, sometime in the 2004-2005 academic schoolyear, I attended this conference/pep rally for Starcom, a media company in Chicago. I came suit-clad, resume in hand, prepared to go to a networking battle with those little Business-major motherfuckers. In the end, I was not aggressive, at all. I figured I would apply online and let fate take its [...]
On the Job Search
If you’re playing the Home Game, I’m looking for a job and waiting for my real life to begin, blah blahbitty blah blah and so on.
So I’m Monster and I see this UPS job for a PART-TIME PACKAGE HANDLER.
“This is a physical, fast-paced position that involves continual lifting, lowering and sliding packages that typically weigh 25-35 lbs. [...]