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Since the Sword of Damocles put the part in my hair this morning...

posted by [personal profile] selkie at 11:24am on 22/03/2005
-- Applied for a non-Federal Job
-- Did the KSA questionnaires for two Federal Jobs
-- Am crafting a Federal Resume
-- Which is a son of a bitch, let me tell you

Still to do: contact the Hiatt Career Center at Brandeis and get letters and documents and all kinds of hoo-ha. Right now I am so jaded with my expensive* education and its utter worthlessness in the DC job market.

The books should be out soon, which is good, because Oh God I need money.

[livejournal.com profile] ms_ntropy, thank you for the tulips! There are so many tulips. Tulips for the big purple vase and the Yahrzeit vase and the roommate. And they are beautiful! They've all turned themselves to face the sun.

[livejournal.com profile] copperbadge, I got my birthday present! I salute you for knowing my Favourite Author, and I am sure I shall like the CD by Mr Gizzard, or Lizard, or whoever, never heard of him. ;-)




*Well, I didn't pay for it.
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posted by [identity profile] twoweevils.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 22/03/2005
I know the system has changed somewhat, but when my mother applied for an office job with the Census Bureau in 1989, she had to list every job she had ever held, going back to picking asparagus on a neighbor's farm when she was 12. Is it still that bad? Or is it even worse now?

K.
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posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 07:19pm on 22/03/2005
It is indeed that bad. And the KSAs drive me batty. I've applied for countless federal jobs, and the HR people always tell me I've messed up some tiny thing and diqualified myself.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 07:38pm on 22/03/2005
Yes! Well, there's these mind-numbing, minutely detailed radio-button questionnaires that drive me up a wall. And at the end they have Morality Questions that are all subjective, inclining me to disagree with all of them because subjective questions on a job app make me nervous.
They only wanted a 7 year job history though....
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posted by [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com at 05:41pm on 22/03/2005
Oh, I don't think it's just DC. I was having that problem in MA. (And the job I ended up getting was the one where I was required to work 5 pm -1 am four nights a week and 12 am to 8 am one night a week. Which was doable, but, you know, sucked ass.

I think the problem is we're trained well enough to look down on the jobs whose only requirement is a BA; and not trained in much that actually gets us a decent job in this particular job market. Poo on a jobless recovery, I tell you.

*steadily avoids thinking about the job search I should start conducting for myself right about now*
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posted by [identity profile] agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 23/03/2005
You, madam, are quite welcome.
And Happy Belated Birthday!
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