Was it entry level?
The industry is very relationship based. The one job I blind applied for I ended up getting because a former employee of mine had worked there and they took her out and she recommended me. Everything else was by being recruited by people I had worked with in the past.
Minimum qualifications were bachelorās degree plus 3+ years in an academic/science setting.
I have a masterās degree and 20 years. Plus I had worked with a few of the people before.
Yeah, I was just making a joke of some of the job postings:
Entry level position
Requirements:
5 years experience
Bachelors degree
List of certifications
And then the usual bullshit of self starter, good communicator, and a team player!
ETA: Forgot āgreat opportunity to grow with the companyā which translates to weāre going to pay you virtually nothing but you have the opportunity to make slightly more than nothing if you bleed for the company for 4 or 5 years. Also:
PTO: 1 week to start, 2 weeks at your 10 year anniversary!
Speaking of PTO, I forgot this tidbit from my last job. 2 weeks PTO to start, 3 weeks at 5 years.
I got a notice for possible jury duty. While talking it over with one of the owners, it was stated that the policy is that you burn through your PTO if youāre on jury duty. So if you end up with a 2 week case, sorry, no more PTO, go fuck yourself.
I started looking for a job after that conversation, but it took a few years to find one.
Thankfully I didnāt get put on a jury.
Is that legal?
Iām not on the academic side. I know one issue you may have is a glut of fresh PhDs taking jobs as post docs in place of dedicated bs/ms level
Folks.
I got lucky and went up the industrial micro career ladder at a time before there were 8 million chemEs specializing in fermentation.
Whatās not giving me peace of mind is that I apparently donāt have alternatives. If I lost my job today I would be FUCKED.
Iām having the opposite problem.
Iāve probably only applied to 20 jobs in my life. Probably got an interview with 17 or 18. I donāt apply unless I actually think I could do the job very well.
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I have no idea.
ETA: I feel like I looked into this at the time and found it was legal.
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Some places take your $9 a day but donāt count the time against you. But if you keep the $9 then itās PTO.
Insane
I am sorry that you are going through this. If it makes you feel even 1% better, I am also enduring something similar and commiserate with you.
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My GF is looking for a job. She works for a contractor for Google and they only give 2 weeks PTO to start. She is a mid level manager at a Data Center and she absolutely hates this contractor. 80k a year job, with shit PTO. Sheād take a pay cut for a job with better benefits. Whatās holding her back? Lack of degree IMO, but she has extensive management experience in Warehouses. I at least got her back in school.
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Bio research jobs is a really difficult (and underpaying given education) job market. Iām glad I got out of that.
As petty as that is, no one is actually gonna keep the $9 in that scenario, are they?
Are they just hoping the employee forgets to turn it over?
Iām a little frustrated.
Got approached on linkedin. Spoke to the recruiter. She then asked if she could schedule me with the senior recruiter.
I responded and said yes.
That was two weeks ago. Nothing.
I followed up over linked in on Monday. Still nothing.
What the actual fuck.
Overheard a coworker on the phone today telling someone about a company in Texas advertising for a maintenance person (I think for heavy machinery) paying $50/hr plus overtime. āOver 100K per year and they got no applicants for four weeks! They just donāt want to work. Theyād rather stay home and collect their benefits!ā
Recruiters can be quite scummy once they find someone to fill a hole. Ive been ghosted more times than I can count
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On September 1, he sent job applications to a pair of restaurants that had been particularly public about their staffing challenges.
Then, he widened the test and spent the remainder of the month applying to jobs ā mostly at employers vocal about a lack of workers ā and tracking his journey in a spreadsheet.
Two weeks and 28 applications later, he had just nine email responses, one follow-up phone call, and one interview with a construction company that advertised a full-time job focused on site cleanup paying $10 an hour.
But Holz said the construction company instead tried to offer Floridaās minimum wage of $8.65 to start, even though the wage was scheduled to increase to $10 an hour on September 30. He added that it wanted full-time availability, while scheduling only part time until Holz gained seniority.
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