The Job Hunting Process

[Rageaholic]

Oh and the places that expect you to know the exact day you started or finished at previous jobs, which might be okay if you've only had one or two jobs, but I've had quite a few, I don't keep track of the exact day. I mean I know the month, so I usually make up some arbitrary date. Or when they want to know a supervisors name and number even if you aren't using them as a reference, I don't even remember half of my supes' last names, let alone their numbers, many don't even work at my former workplace anymore, or the store was shut down!

Even as someone who's only previous work was a volunteer thing I did, I get so frusturated by this. How am I supposed to remember the exact date I started? It was sometime in June, is that not enough? And if it's online, they demand an exact date as June isn't specific enough. grr...

And what's with needing a mini profile for the supervisor? Some applications even required their address! WTF? Their address. They may not even be living at the same place anymore!

I don't like job applications.

[Eisa]

^My only experience is volunteer, and I hate that. I started doing it in high school, how the fuck am I supposed to know what day I started? I just graduated from college!

[Boozy]

Even as someone who's only previous work was a volunteer thing I did, I get so frusturated by this. How am I supposed to remember the exact date I started? It was sometime in June, is that not enough? And if it's online, they demand an exact date as June isn't specific enough. grr...

Either call your volunteer supervisor and get them to pull the records, or simply pick a date at random. If you know you started mid-June of 2010, say June 15th. It's not a big deal.

Job hunting is stressful enough. Don't sweat the small stuff.

[IDrinkaRum]

Not unless you're trying to get a job in the government contractor jobs, or even applying for the federal government.

You get assigned what is essentially private detective who talks to your neighbors, your relatives, your friends, your former employers, anyone you can think of. They also require knowing your financial situation, if you've ever been out of the country, if you know any foreigners, if you plan on going out of the country. Drug test. And if you're working certain projects a lie detector test. (However, the lie detector is usually after you're hired).

You have to be very specific about job times. And pick who your references will be. An old friend of mine had me and another chick we both knew as 2 of her references. The other chick lied about our mutual friend and my friend was denied her security clearance.

As someone who has worked with a former major of the KGB, when I went back to work for a government contractor, I had to report that to the security officer. Fortunately the gentleman in question had been out of the KGB since around 1980 or so (this was 2002), so I was cleared.

Yeah, government work can be ... interesting.

[Dreamstalker]

That's what I hope to go into...my school does CORI checks for any student entering a criminal-justice program and I passed that, and I think my credit is still reasonable.

I do have a Schedule A letter, so I'm hoping that if I'm hired under that my "disability" will explain why I can't recall every little detail of every job I ever had.