Like a lot of people, I can find it hard to get motivated when there is the prospect of some much-needed time off on the horizon. My fingers may be on the keyboard, but my mind is yearning for that precious four day weekend. Also, this is coming from somebody who often enjoys their job. …
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Boastful Male Job Applicant Shares Medical Stats on Resume, Splits Opinion of the Internet
The structure of a resume is a very personal thing. It’s not surprising, seeing as it’s basically an attempt to distill your entire professional personality onto one side of A4. The experienced hiring manager can find all kinds of hints based on this one document, and it presents us almost vulnerably — if you really …
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Workers Discuss The Benefits of Lying on Your Resume
There’s only so much you can do to get a job when your resume is not up to par. You can change the verbiage you use to describe your job-hopping as much as you’d like, but employers are just going to see the same thing: an unreliable person who can’t be trusted to stay at …
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‘Cut my salary in half? Kiss your business goodbye’: Boss gives hardworking employee’s salary to new worker, employees band together to tank the company
«Red flags start appearing from the very first minute I arrive,» this employee wrote in one jaw-dropping workplace story. This is a long story, but it’s totally worth the read. U/technicalviking wrote about the time they got suckered into taking on a massive job, only to be really overworked and barely appreciated. As they wrote, …
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People Debate the Dubious Usefulness of Cover Letters
It takes a very specific breed of person to enjoy the process of a job search, and by this I mean somebody who is either a complete psychopath, or has an automatic leg up thanks to all of their dad’s rich and powerful friends (better still, maybe they are part of both categories!). The action …
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People Debate The Usefulness of Cover Letters
It takes a very specific breed of person to enjoy the process of a job search, and by this I mean somebody who is either a complete psychopath, or has an automatic leg up thanks to all of their dad’s rich and powerful friends (better still, maybe they are part of both categories!). The action …
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Amusing Thread Recounts Awkward Typos That Happened at Exactly the Wrong Time
There are many, many different ways to combine the twenty six letters of the alphabet and make up a new word. Why is it, then, that so many parts of our vocabulary look and sound so similar, while meaning completely different things? It’s bad enough when we trip over ourselves when talking, but it’s even …
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Honest Job Application Answers That Somehow (Sometimes) Got People Hired
In a life full of boring necessities, one of the most boring of all is looking for a job. From excruciating interview questions to navigating industry politics, it can often seem like the whole thing is one big minefield. There’s also nothing worse than falling at the first hurdle: the resume is frequently what makes …
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Job Applicant Tries to Send Resume to Employer, Sends Dog Pic Instead
Ah, the job searching process. From those agonizing hours trying to perfect what kind of «personal interests» you have other than being slumped behind a screen to the thankless task of sending a hundred different applications out into the ether, there’s always a dull moment when you’re trying to find work. While they might not …
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People Share Ways to Turn the Tables on a Potential Employer in a Job Interview
Why do job interviews have to be so one-sided? It is totally understandable that if you are the person applying for the job, you are naturally in a position to prove yourself. But that does not necessarily mean you can’t feel out a potential employer on your end. Why not use the job interview as an …
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