Originally Posted By chickendumpling Lately we've had some LPers applying for (and getting, yay!) some new jobs and it got me wondering. How did you get your current job? Any other jobs that had an interesting intro? I was recommended by an acquaintance of mine who worked there already. He was getting promoted and he thought I'd be a good replacement for him. I was very happy to get that call because I hated the job I was in. LOL.
Originally Posted By ajnhollysmommy I too have my job because my kids were born. I just read someplace the differene between working mom and stay at home moms. Working moms look forward to Friday. For stay at home moms,everyday is a monday
Originally Posted By SuzieQ LOL - I was going to say I slept with the boss. But we've been married 17 years, and I've only been a stay-home mom for 6. My first 'real' job, I got through the placement person at my business school. Job #2 & 3, I got through the classifieds Recruited by the company owner for Job #4. My longest term job, I stayed 7 years. I picked 4 companies that I'd heard good things about and sent them blind resumes. I got offered a job by two of them. I got hired as the Assistant to the General Auditor, and after a while convinced him they needed to create trainee levels so I could move into the audit/investigations side of his dept My current job of stay-home mom I got when the company was sold. I was ready to quit because it was too hard with my career and my husband's and having a 10 year old. They were both very demanding jobs and we were never home anymore. They announced the sale of the company, and I offered to be the sacrificial lamb to get laid off. I told them if I got the lay-off package, I'd stay through the sale (you HAVE to have auditors there right until the moment of the sale). If they refused the package to me, they could have my resignation right then and there. One call to the corp. lawyer, and I got my package!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb My current job was advertised in the paper on Sunday, I emailed my resume on Monday. I got a call on Tuesday for a interview Thursday. They said they would bring back me and others for a second interview the next week, but instead they called and offered me the job the Wednesday following my interview (about an hour before I had planned to start calling them and the other maybe job to check up). I started the following Monday.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom I bought mine. I had taught at the studio for ten years and my boss wanted to sell it. I was more than happy to have my own business, borrowed the money from my step-father and that was it. Have owned it for going on eleven years now.
Originally Posted By -em IMO- Pure Luck Now lets hope the luck holds out in Jan so that I can stay -em
Originally Posted By ilvdland January 1989 - I, for the first time, had no job. I had had a job since I was 16 years old (I had just graduated high school in 1988) and I wasn't in school, so I had to work. I had always wanted to work at Pegasus, because all of the cute boys from my school worked there. I kept trying and trying to get a job, but there were no openings. All of a sudden, one of my mom's friends offers me a job at a travel agaency. I hadn't even left West Seattle, let alone go on a trip somewhere. But, I took the job, thinking I could learn something. The day before I was supposed to go for training, I ran into the owner of Pegasus at the grocery store. He wants to know if I found a job, I say yes, I tell him where, and in typical Greek style says, "NO, you come down with me, I'll give you a job." What do I do? Travel agency or cute boys? On February 22, 2007, I will be employed at Pegasus for HALF OF MY LIFE. You SEE what cute boys will do for your career???
Originally Posted By Altadisdude I needed a job to support myself and my fiancé in moving out on our own while she finished school. Her mom worked for an apartment complex chain and introduced me to the district manager who hired me on the spot to do late night security work at a very laid back complex. I have a recently earned Bachelor’s Degree and make barely above minimum wage with it, but they pay my rent and I get to goof off all night, so I won’t complain too loudly. Once my fiancé graduates were moving anyway and then it’s on to job #4!. This is the end of my third month. For me jobs came from knowing someone or pounding the pavement and talking to people working there. I’ve never had any luck finding jobs through online websites or ads in the paper. The only responses I seem to get are junk “make $$$ at home!†and telemarketers wanting fresh meat for their call room grinders.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I was contacted by a head hunter, having been referred (unbeknownst to me). I had been considering leaving when I got the call. I was offered two opportunities - one as a director of a firm of 10 consultants, or one as a senior manager for a firm of 48,000 people and a Social Care team of 200. I intereviewed for both via telephone and face to face, and was offered both within 4 hours of each other. I opted for the bigger firm. The key to winning the roles was that I did my homework about the companies and their activities, and developed my presentations according to their logos etc.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 For me it was all about timing. I was in the right place at the right time and the doors just opened from there. =)
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Well, one day us Cauldron gals got so fed up with broom sticks that don't fly right, we went 'n decided ta just git part time jobs workin' fer a broom fac'try our own dang selves. First they wasn't gonna hire us. But a little ol' whammy took care a that an' the boss-ta-be went 'n changed his fool mind! ORWEN: That way we could make sure the brooms coming off the assembly line that WE had anything to do with could really fly! ORDDU: I'm sure you've heard the name of the place we work for. It's called 'Brooms to Go'...
Originally Posted By jasmine7 In Oct of 2003, they announced at my then-current job that the department was being outsourced and we would be laid off in January. Several of us applied at another health insurance company for their upcoming training classes for the claims department (some of us had already "jumped ship" and were starting in November), and after going through interviews and such, I got hired for the training class in January of 2004. I spent a few months in the claims department when my supervisor asked for the names of those who would be interested in learning basic adjustments on a temporary basis, so I said I would be interested in doing that. I spent a few months of helping them out when I got "volunteered" to transfer to the adjustment team, and I spent a couple of months learning complex adjustments. If they had asked me if I wanted to transfer to adjustments, I would have said no because I heard that they were difficult and a nightmare to work, but I've ended up loving it. I wouldn't go back to the claims department ever after working in adjustments for the last couple of years.
Originally Posted By LVCajun Thew job I have now I earned through hard work. But I started at my present company (in another position) because my brother-in-law go me in.
Originally Posted By officerminnie These are the steps I went through for my current job: 1. Sent in a written application. 2. Got a letter inviting me, and 300 other applicants, to take a written test. 3. Received a letter stating I was ranked #5 on the hiring list. 4. Fill out a ton of more paperwork and submit a bunch of references. Get fingerprinted. 5. Pre-Oral board interview: One-on-one with a background investigator. 125 questions ranging from "Have you ever experimented with drugs?" to "Have you ever watched pornography?" to "When is the last time you lost your temper?" etc. You make sure to answer these honestly because they will pop up again on the polygraph test. 6. Take 3 personality profile/psychological tests. Each test has about 200 questions ("Would you rather be a ballerina or a stockbroker?"). 7. Take a polygraph exam. Pass it . 8. The Oral Board: Field quetsions from a panel of 6. They are sitting in a row at a table and I am in a chair directly opposite them. 9. Get offered the job!!! This whole process took about 3 months from start to finish. It was the most nerve-wracking experience I have ever had, but also was one of my proudest moments when I was offered the position.
Originally Posted By alexbook Walked in, asked if they were hiring, filled out an application, and got a phone call offering me the job.
Originally Posted By Ursula I was at a company that was slowly laying off people either singly or in groups. We were at 65 people (full-time, part-time, and freelance) and we went down to 13. I had been applying at jobs like mad, I went on a few very good interviews...then I got laid off and was hired with my current employer 12 hours later. It will be seven years on Dec. 13th. I know I will never get that lucky, to be hired so soon after a lay-off, and even after all of you nice people have heard me complain forever, I now am in a place with my company that I like, and I think they mutually like me, too.
