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Jan 17, 2014 2:43 PM
dlazz;1568425 wrote:Finding a new job isn't that easy.
Yeah, and this.
Jan 17, 2014 2:43pm
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Commander of Awesome

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Jan 17, 2014 2:46 PM
dlazz;1568425 wrote:Finding a new job isn't that easy.
Prob not in Ohio. Leave ohio and you wont have many issues. I quit my job on the east coast and moved to the west coast, had a job in 4 days of not really looking. Just hooked up with a recruiter. 6 months later I hated my job and got a new one relatively quickly. Not my experience in Ohio at all though.
Jan 17, 2014 2:46pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 2:48 PM
Commander of Awesome;1568433 wrote:Prob not in Ohio. Leave ohio and you wont have many issues. I quit my job on the east coast and moved to the west coast, had a job in 4 days of not really looking. Just hooked up with a recruiter. 6 months later I hated my job and got a new one relatively quickly. Not my experience in Ohio at all though.
I've had nothing but negative experiences with recruiters (albeit in Ohio)

Edit: also, I just left my exit interview. I'm just kind of sitting here awkwardly waiting on the OK to leave.
Jan 17, 2014 2:48pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Jan 17, 2014 2:49 PM
I've had the same job for 9.5 years, and I haven't really tried looking for another job.
Jan 17, 2014 2:49pm
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like_that

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Jan 17, 2014 2:51 PM
Commander of Awesome;1568433 wrote:Prob not in Ohio. Leave ohio and you wont have many issues. I quit my job on the east coast and moved to the west coast, had a job in 4 days of not really looking. Just hooked up with a recruiter. 6 months later I hated my job and got a new one relatively quickly. Not my experience in Ohio at all though.
This seems true, granted I live in an area with many job opportunities. To be fair for dlazz and fab, if you already have a job and you want to look for a new job, that tends to make you a bit pickier with what you are looking for. If I want to leave my current job now, my "future" employer needs to be better than my current employer. If you go with a recruiter, a recruiter might find you a job that you dislike for any reason (location, culture, salary, etc).

A recruiter is perfect for when you have no job and you are just trying to keep a cash flow.
Jan 17, 2014 2:51pm
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Fab4Runner

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Jan 17, 2014 2:51 PM
Commander of Awesome;1568433 wrote:Prob not in Ohio. Leave ohio and you wont have many issues. I quit my job on the east coast and moved to the west coast, had a job in 4 days of not really looking. Just hooked up with a recruiter. 6 months later I hated my job and got a new one relatively quickly. Not my experience in Ohio at all though.
I have no desire to leave Ohio. I don't hate my job enough to move to find another one.
Jan 17, 2014 2:51pm
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like_that

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Jan 17, 2014 2:51 PM
dlazz;1568436 wrote:I've had nothing but negative experiences with recruiters (albeit in Ohio)

Edit: also, I just left my exit interview. I'm just kind of sitting here awkwardly waiting on the OK to leave.
LOL, I would just leave.
Jan 17, 2014 2:51pm
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justincredible

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32,056 posts
Jan 17, 2014 2:53 PM
My new job found me, I wasn't even looking.
Jan 17, 2014 2:53pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Jan 17, 2014 2:53 PM
like_that;1568442 wrote:LOL, I would just leave.
But what if he gets fired?
Jan 17, 2014 2:53pm
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LJ

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Jan 17, 2014 2:53 PM
Commander of Awesome;1568433 wrote:Prob not in Ohio. Leave ohio and you wont have many issues. I quit my job on the east coast and moved to the west coast, had a job in 4 days of not really looking. Just hooked up with a recruiter. 6 months later I hated my job and got a new one relatively quickly. Not my experience in Ohio at all though.
There are plenty of jobs in the Columbus area. Problem is there are so many overqualified or desperate people out there that each opening gets hit with hundreds of applications when it goes public. I know people who still jump jobs like crazy, but they make their job search a priority and only apply to jobs that have been posted within the past 24 hours. It's not unheard of for an entry level office job that pays $30k to get 500 apps in 2 days.
Jan 17, 2014 2:53pm
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Devils Advocate

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Jan 17, 2014 2:54 PM
justincredible;1568446 wrote:My new job found me, I wasn't even looking.
I've had the same experience with trouble.
Jan 17, 2014 2:54pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 2:55 PM
like_that;1568442 wrote:LOL, I would just leave.
Last guy upped and left after his exit interview and I was explicitly told NOT to do that as recently as this morning.

Like it makes a damn difference.
Jan 17, 2014 2:55pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 2:57 PM
LJ;1568448 wrote:There are plenty of jobs in the Columbus area. Problem is there are so many overqualified or desperate people out there that each opening gets hit with hundreds of applications when it goes public.
Yup. It took me over 18 months of looking before I got my new job. I had probably 10 interviews before I got this one.

Ib4 you just suck at interviewing (I do)
Jan 17, 2014 2:57pm
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Jan 17, 2014 2:59 PM
dlazz;1568453 wrote:Last guy upped and left after his exit interview and I was explicitly told NOT to do that as recently as this morning.

Like it makes a damn difference.
no reply to my PM .... Nail it ????
Jan 17, 2014 2:59pm
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Jan 17, 2014 2:59 PM
dlazz;1568455 wrote:Yup. It took me over 18 months of looking before I got my new job. I had probably 10 interviews before I got this one.

Ib4 you just suck at interviewing (I do)
I have friends stuck in the same prediciment. Perfectly qualified for a job, get an interview, and the hiring manager hires someone random. I think perfectly qualified is the new overqualified.
Jan 17, 2014 2:59pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 3:00 PM
Belly35;1568457 wrote:no reply to my PM .... Nail it ????
No. You weren't even close.
Jan 17, 2014 3:00pm
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queencitybuckeye

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Jan 17, 2014 3:01 PM
dlazz;1568453 wrote:Last guy upped and left after his exit interview and I was explicitly told NOT to do that as recently as this morning.

Like it makes a damn difference.
These are the idiot bosses that make slightly less idiotic bosses look bad.
Jan 17, 2014 3:01pm
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Jan 17, 2014 3:01 PM
dlazz;1568455 wrote:Yup. It took me over 18 months of looking before I got my new job. I had probably 10 interviews before I got this one.

Ib4 you just suck at interviewing (I do)
Did you at least shave and cut your hair?
Jan 17, 2014 3:01pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 3:04 PM
LJ;1568458 wrote:I have friends stuck in the same prediciment. Perfectly qualified for a job, get an interview, and the hiring manager hires someone random. I think perfectly qualified is the new overqualified.
Last spring I made it to the final interview and was asked to come in and meet the Dean of the school. I was told that I'd get an offer within a few days.

A week later I pinged them and asked for an update and was told that the Dean instructed them to broaden their job search.

Bonus: they had already checked my references and forced me to use my current supervisor as one of them... So he knew I was looking and had no job offer.
Jan 17, 2014 3:04pm
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Jan 17, 2014 3:06 PM
dlazz;1568465 wrote:Bonus: they had already checked my references and forced me to use my current supervisor as one of them... So he knew I was looking and had no job offer.
Fuck. That.
Jan 17, 2014 3:06pm
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LJ

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Jan 17, 2014 3:08 PM
dlazz;1568465 wrote:Last spring I made it to the final interview and was asked to come in and meet the Dean of the school. I was told that I'd get an offer within a few days.

A week later I pinged them and asked for an update and was told that the Dean instructed them to broaden their job search.

Bonus: they had already checked my references and forced me to use my current supervisor as one of them... So he knew I was looking and had no job offer.
JFC, no wonder your avatar is Eeyore
Jan 17, 2014 3:08pm
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Jan 17, 2014 3:08 PM
dlazz;1568453 wrote:Last guy upped and left after his exit interview and I was explicitly told NOT to do that as recently as this morning.

Like it makes a damn difference.
If they don't know where you are working, I would just leave. Fuck that.
Jan 17, 2014 3:08pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 3:10 PM
justincredible;1568469 wrote:Fuck. That.
Yeah, it was really goddamn stupid.

It's unreal how heartless companies are. I only have about a 40% success rate of hearing back ANY response after an interview. Usually I just go interview and hear nothing back. I'd even be content with getting a No, but instead I was spending a lot of time in limbo.

That's even with me asking for an update. Nothing at all.
Jan 17, 2014 3:10pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2014 3:10 PM
like_that;1568474 wrote:If they don't know where you are working, I would just leave. Fuck that.
They do
Jan 17, 2014 3:10pm
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Jan 17, 2014 3:11 PM
like_that;1568439 wrote:This seems true, granted I live in an area with many job opportunities. To be fair for dlazz and fab, if you already have a job and you want to look for a new job, that tends to make you a bit pickier with what you are looking for. If I want to leave my current job now, my "future" employer needs to be better than my current employer. If you go with a recruiter, a recruiter might find you a job that you dislike for any reason (location, culture, salary, etc).

A recruiter is perfect for when you have no job and you are just trying to keep a cash flow.
My recruiter in the bay area got me a job making considerable amount more than I was making. At that point I almost DGAF if I liked it or not.
Jan 17, 2014 3:11pm