Comments on: Craigslist Poster to Employers: “Your Loss”

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:15:33 +0000

Ron,

1. Your “killer porfolio” is not in the top 5% of portfolios being received by the hiring party, meaning you’re not getting called for an interview.

2. Your “great resumé” is not as great as the top 5% of resumés being submitted to the jobs you’re appying for, hence, you are not getting called for an interview.

3. Craigslist is a terrible place to look for work. Everyone knows that people post false ads on Craigslist, that spammers post ads on Craigslist, and that legitimate employers who are too cheap to post elsewhere post on Craigslist. If they’re too cheap to post elsewhere, why do you think they’re going to pay well, considering the position being offered?

4. Tremendous wealth disparities can occur without causing social unrest. Other things can happen, such as the slowdown of the economy in a general sense, the loss of status as a world leader, etc. Remember what happened to Russia when it became poor due to blind adherence to an ideology? It went down the tubes. Likewise, if the US blindly adheres to “free market capitalism” or any other orthodoxy (Christian or otherwise) we will also face a similar fate. Only those countries that deal with problems on the pragmatic level are those countries that thrive.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:09:40 +0000

Couldn’t agree any more with the guy who wrote this. As if the lack of jobs wasn’t bad enough with 30 people waiting in line ahead of you, the jobs that ARE out there make it nearly impossible to get hired. If you don’t have an amazing resume, they won’t hire you. If you DO have an amazing resume… they still wont hire you. So what’s the point?

And there’s one thing this story didn’t mention about Craigslist: EMPLOYERS DONT EVEN LOOK AT IT. It’s so fucking sad, seeing all these people on there begging for a job (like myself) and the only the only people who respond to their ads are SPAMMERS. Gee, thanks, I’m dying for a job and the only person who responds wants to sell me some dick pills…

I even have a killer online portfolio w/ resume, and I still can’t land a good job. To know that I did all that work setting up my badass website for nothing, because no employer even looked at my Craigslist resume, hurts.

Poverty + no jobs + people losing their homes + rich people flaunting their wealth = REVOLUTION. Get ready to bust some heads.

By: NotYetBraveEnoughToUseMyRealName

NotYetBraveEnoughToUseMyRealName — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:12:48 +0000

I still have a cache of Peppermint Linen paper that I used to use for my resumes. Which were designed using Pagemaker–clear yet intriguing designs the likes of which today’s publishing-software-for-the-masses could only dream of creating. Maybe the lesson is that HR folks NEVER read and appreciated the well-written resume and cover letter, and now they won’t have to.

By: Vladan

Vladan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:19:51 +0000

Corporate “hiring” practices are a joke. They hire people who are followers, puppets, imebiceles that do not rock the boat. Heaven forbid you have an independent thought or have an opinion. They like to hire wimps, emasculated “men” (boys) and silly girls (twirling hair and chewing gum-tennie boppers) as they are naive and impressionable. That’s why they get up at 7:00AM everyday M-Sat, 8-10 hours/day and become nothings. They are dull, lifeless, individuals who then get their 1-2 week vacay whereby they can stress out about their bossman, or the fax machine or that the grant in triplicate had a typo. Great life–rather not work, than be dying a slow death in USA corparate sh-thole. good riddance.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:40:31 +0000

Make sure that resume paper is the special thick kind and obsess about grammar and spelling; that way the employer dolts can make a paper airplane out of it and throw it into the basura. Great country.

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By: Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:34:12 +0000

I don’t suppose it’ll make you feel any better, but I can tell you for sure that job hunting 30 years ago (and 20 years ago, and 10 years ago) was also infuriating. In the old days, you went to a print shop to have your resume printed on expensive, subtly distinctive paper to catch the eye of HR. You sent dozens, nay, hundreds of these beauties out with well-crafted cover letters, and they vanished into some wastebasket with no acknowledgment of receipt.

Technology changes, but HR doesn’t get smarter or more appealing.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:56:21 +0000

H.R. – what a huge joke they are, glorified data entry operators with a book that has all the “correct” answers to life’s most important questions.

By: Jackov

Jackov — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:28:29 +0000

The average career is now FIVE years. If you work as a temp/contractor, you can list your multiple jobs under your temp agency to fudge your experience.

Self-employment is now a more reliable source of income than a job anyway.