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How long did it take to obtain your first post-college job?

>> No.13074970

>>13074959
Almost 7 months.

It was fucking brutal.

>> No.13074973

i got a job before i graduated. im still there. getting paid peanuts. pls kill me

>> No.13074979

>>13074959
I was interning at a place and they made me a good offer a few months before I graduated.

>> No.13074980

>>13074959
I already had a job lined up prior to graduation. Had two weeks between graduation and when I officially started work.

>> No.13074986

~6 months

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>>13074959

4 years

>> No.13075007

>>13074970
This. It's about 6 months to get out if you didn't have internships.
200 applications, 10 interviews, 1 offer. That's the general "flow".

>> No.13075020

>>13074970
I'm a month in and I'm working full time at a grocery store as the maintenance guy. There is poo splattered all over the women's bathroom. The projectile shit must be from all these obese women wearing tight yoga pants all day. Yesterday there was shit splattered under the hinged seat. That's some Houdini shit.

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I'm hitting my one year mark after graduation without an offer I'm getting nervous /biz/

>> No.13075045

>>13074959

8 months

>> No.13075063

>let women into the workforce
>they turn getting a job into dating
>jump through all these hoops like a good boy and give me attention and maybe i'll give you an interview
>oh no, our algorithm says you only matched 2/10 key buzz words
>you only have 50 connections on linkedin

>> No.13075076

I ended up giving up after being rejected for a year straight.

>> No.13075097

>>13074959
I could find any random ass shit job, but to find a job in my career it took 2 years, graduated in a recession

>> No.13075102

>>13074959
shitty just get by with rent job pretty much a month and a half.

Actual related to degree job took over a year. and I got it through a fucking help graduates from poor areas into work scheme.

Took 3 years and a masters degree to get dream graduate job though.

>> No.13075108

>>13074959
I got hired 4 months before i graduated because I don't suck at life lol.

>> No.13075111

I’m a highschool dropout

>> No.13075123

>>13075108
t. diversity hire

>> No.13075159

>>13074959
>No degree
>No debt
>Make $70k / year
Feels gud.

>> No.13075160

>college
lmfao you retards still fall for this meme

>> No.13075328

>>13075123
This. I'm a diversity hire I was literally told to my face during hr power points too

Felt a little rude but whatever 100k/yr

>> No.13075344

almost a year. although i only started searching after 4 months out of college, so 6-8 months pretty much

>> No.13075356

>>13075328
I don't even blame you guys. I'm about to just grow my facial hair out, get a tan and identify as latino.

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Zero days
Fuck college

>> No.13075395

9 or 10 months
>accountancy degree
>applied for literally hundreds of jobs
>got maybe 3 or 4 interviews
>cried to my mum when I got rejected for the 3rd or 4th time
>finally got a job paying £15k because the manager interviewing me knew my grandfather
>hated it, hated the manager
>found another job in 6 months (my current)
>love this job
>just negotiated a pay rise to £25k
>2 more exams and I'll be a chartered accountant
>can expect 35-40k as a newly qualified accountant

keep your chin up mate, it will get better. After getting rejected several times I was fucking depressed. Just don't be a total autist in the interview and try your best to come across as subservient and easy-going

>> No.13075405

>>13075123
nope, went to the third best school in the country for computational mathematics.

>> No.13075424

about a year. i was applying online for jobs and never heard back from anyone. then i went to a career fair my school was holding, even though i had graduated a year prior. been at the company for a few years now.

>> No.13075452

>masters in aerospace engineering
>cant work in aerospace because not us citizen
probably infinity time

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>> No.13075496

>>13075405
Shut up nerd

>> No.13075516

>>13074959
Couple of months. You have to keep trying. Also, there are certain companies that specifically hire people of of college - you have to think of a way to find more of those.

>> No.13075533

>>13075037
Oh shit. The longer youre unemployed the more difficult it becomes. It's like waiting until your thirties to start looking at marriage. All the good shit is already taken.

>> No.13075545

>>13075533
y-you're supposed to be married by your thirties?

>> No.13075561

>>13074959
Literaly beg for me to go and work there, i chose to be a neet and daytrading for 1k a day.

>> No.13075570

>>13074959
6 months or so but I graduated Dec 2017 and was still focused on riding the bullrun. Early in '18 I woke up to the fact that this shit was dead money for a while and took my chips off the table. A good friend of mine from school gave me the heads up that his firm was looking for a junior guy and I managed to get the role.

Your network is your networth, anon. Don't ever forget that.

>> No.13075670

What do to if you’re antisocial and have zero network but still got a 4.0 masters from #2 in your field? I got out in December and never got past 2nd phone call

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>3 weeks
And you all said /frat connections/ were a meme

Phi Alpha faggots

>> No.13076062

>>13075395
you'll be replaced in 5-10 years by a computer LOL get fucked nerd should've picked CS

>> No.13076098

>tfw never worked in a proper job
>worked freelance and did oddjobs during college here and there
>started my own business after

I sometimes wonder what it would feel like to be a wagie, it must be horrible.

>> No.13076292

>>13075405
>went to an ivy
>bowses /biz/

you're either a troll or a lot dumber than you seem

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A year and a half, and the job is absolute hell.

>> No.13076886

>>13074970
2 years. I got lucky and took some shit entry lvl low paying job. Its was so bad that I took back my old bartending job. Fucking made more money bartending.

Everything is good now. one of the customers that comes in offered me a better job, so I'm finally happy.

>> No.13076954

>>13076292
nah i went to a top 3 too, 4chan really is a big, important part of the heart of internet culture, where else would you expect anyone worth their salt to chill ?

>> No.13077068

>>13075395
congrats anon. Once you have some experience and qualify, your negotiating leverage goes up a lot.

I used to live in London and found the pay for accountants wasn't great, but the experience opens up great opportunities overseas.

>> No.13077105

Nobody is mentioning major or field, I would be interested in hearing some of them because the differences seem stark between different degrees.

I'm CS graduating with BS in a month or so. Hope I can find work quickly.

>> No.13077125

I found a job at Starbucks right after graduation

>> No.13077220

>>13075770
You have a really low self esteem. Clean your room

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13077233

Computer Engineer - took me 3 months my senior year to find the right one. I had 3-5 offers. They came to campus to interview us. Pick a real major and you won't have any trouble. Pick a bullshit liberal arts major and you'll be poor forever.

>> No.13077536

>>13074959

majored in economics, got a job selling life insurance within 3 or 4 months graduating, same company sponsored me for my series 7 and 66, now I work for country's largest bank in manhattan. managing over a quarter billion in client assets sharing revenue with another financial advisor.

i graduated in 2010.

best of luck anon.

>> No.13077544

>>13077536

by the way I'm also a foreigner, under DACA.

I can't stand americans who think people like us freeload off the system and don't pay taxes. the same people can suck a dick.

>> No.13077556

>>13077544
Just pay your taxes anon, but congrats

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>>13074959
I accepted an offer before I graduated. Leveraging the resources while you are in school is the way to do it. Career fairs are your friend. You have to keep that momentum going. I couldn't handle the corporate/office lifestyle tho. I'm a NEET now.

>> No.13077634

>>13077536
>>13077544
Nice larp

>> No.13077642

Did you network with well connected peers?

>> No.13077653

No time at all

I went to teach English in Korea and they’ll take any warm body with a bachelor’s degree

>> No.13077660

>>13077544
You have to go back

>> No.13077695

Graduated in June of last year. Still don't have a job (although I just started actively looking in September). I had an amazing internship for about 1.5 years, but I fucked it up and my boss ended it a couple months before my graduation. Still, it was an amazing experience to be able to list on my resume, and I have a lot of other good work experience too. Haven't heard back once and I've put out a ton of applications with detailed, articulate cover letters. It's brutal. What makes it worse is that most jobs are complete bullshit, or purely sales type crap and it all pays really low despite having a degree. I see jobs relevant to my experiences/degree seeking someone with a Bachelors, 5+ yeas experience, and are only offering $40k-$50k. Like, what the fuck.

>> No.13077710

>>13077695
What went wrong, anon? Accidentally insult a female coworker?

>> No.13077746

>>13077710
I had some disagreements with one of my bosses. It was my job to come up with new ideas for product positioning/new opportunities, and he was really just using me to push his own ideas even though they weren't that great (I presented my work to another manager). I was told I had free reign, but I didn't. I really believed in what I wanted to do. In the end, it was a great job and I should've just sucked it up, but I let my ego get in the way. I just hated the idea of being a yes-man at the time. Now though, it'd be nice to have a job. Ideals aren't worth adhering to when it comes to making sure you have a paycheck.

>> No.13077759

>>13075037
after 1 year its hopeless.

>> No.13077765

>>13075395
god damn yuropean wages are pathetic. what a sad continent

>> No.13077782

Y’all should put the bongs down and go to Asia

>> No.13077830

>>13075159
what do you do?

>> No.13077849

>>13075395
Holy fuck, UK is a mess.
2k bongs monthly posted as a success story.

>> No.13077869

slide thread by CIA

>> No.13077904

>>13077849
literally makes what a mindless amazon warehouse worker makes on their first day and he has a degree.

>> No.13077906 [DELETED] 

>>13077660

LMAO nah i'm comfy here. i think people like us make america great again. btw I voted trump.
and now that he's in office, my DACA has been approved 4x faster..

TOP KEK!! middle america. suck my dick!!

how much did you pony up to uncle sam this year. fucking loser.

>> No.13077934

>>13077660

nah I'm comfy here. DACA people like us are making america great again. we are productive and contribute to society

btw I support trump. cause now that he's in office my DACA applications have been moving along 10x faster. Thanks Trump!

LMAO.


stay mad bro and jealous bro.

>> No.13077940

>>13075395
Holy wtf are those wages

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>>13077634

not larping. 100% trying to encourage and inspire some people up here to stay positive. atleast you didnt get out of college right in the middle of a recession and as an immigrant with little or no rights....

some of you younger millennial are so damn entitled.

>> No.13077991

>>13075770
Lol SAE FAGGGG
Say hi to your phi mu(ooooo) cow of a gf while you’re at it

>> No.13078106

>>13074959
Four months. And it was a part-time thing i could have got straight out of highschool.

>> No.13078113

>>13077934
You have to go back

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>>13074959
>How long did it take to obtain your first post-college job?

I didn't go to college (university) because I don't want to be brainwashed by kikes and funnel fed into a toxic sausage factory workforce to pay off debts.

Started self-studying crypto trading and languages after I finished high school (college) and moved to asia to live the cheap life and not deal with bossy employers, bullshit work ethic and social isolation. I also moved in with a hot asian trap with huge tits who cooks for me and lets me give her the good fuck. Still studying 3 languages and learning more about economics and finance every day from /biz/, youtube videos and free pdfs after a year. So now if I ever came back to europe I can say I am fluent in languages of the most relevant and fastest growing economies, which many people in Europe are not fluent in, I have knowledge about different cultures through traveling (important for making business deals), I started my own business without a degree and generally am not a disgusting normalfag. Even if I don't get a higher paying job than through the college economics degree grind I still would feel richer than they ever could through knowledge.
It gives me unimaginable satisfaction to browse through /biz/ and see these threads about losers in first world countries who are working full time jobs and struggling to even break even, while I sit back eating delicious asian food cooked just to my tastes (fried chicken tonight though) and maybe get some head after. When I'm not increasing my ever growing knowledge of the world, I can watch anime, briefly consider when I'll do my two hours of proper work for the day, and maybe meet my cool friends for a couple of cold beers. Of course, normally I'd be against such frivolous spending but on occasion it's important to meet other people face to face to release some serotonin.

In conclusion, I could live the rest of my life pretty happily without debt and no degree. A degree is worthless.

>> No.13078419

I had one ready two months before I graduated

Feels good doing a useful degree

>> No.13078427

>>13077940
UK of piss. 40k is considered a "good" wage here

>> No.13078666

Took me 4 months with a bachelor's in chemistry, I'm in europe.

My advice is to get really good at interviews. Smile, make facial expressions while you give your answers, make your answers personal and relatable, make light jokes. If your interviewer is female and you don't mention you girlfriend, mom, or grandmother during the interview you're making a HUGE mistake. If you play an instrument and don't mention it it's like you don't even want the job. This also applies to any other interesting hobbies. It's ok to give some cliché answers as long as you throw some unexpected and introspective ones here and there. Make it seem like you're actually thinking before answering, it makes you look intelligent. I'm terrible at social interactions, but really good at interviews, so that's not an excuse.

>> No.13078789

>>13077544
Miguel, while you’re probably larping, most DACA spics are worthless and are total leeches. I know it feels bad because you suffer from a massive inferiority complex, but you’ll have to deal with it; seeing as you’ll never be anything more than a spic with failure parents who can’t build a stable country causing them to flee like rats. Good luck in the next crash. Can’t imagine the average rich guy will be impressed when he finds out JP Morgan gave a spic the reins to so much money.

>> No.13078798

>>13074959
First I found a well paid job (I had to relocate abroad) and then I finished my Eng. master 6 months later.

>> No.13078857

>>13075063
>they turn getting a job into dating
>>13078666
fuck this gay earth

>> No.13079083

>>13076954
Not top 3 but top 4 for my program here.

>> No.13079094

>>13074959
I never did, so i went into a totally different field and have been there ever since (5 years now.)

>> No.13079208

Got a trade in land surveying
Hired at end of school

>> No.13079210

I had an offer within a month of graduating without prior experience of internships.

I turned it down and didn't find anything for a year.

Wouldn't change my decision though, learned a lot from my neetdom.

>> No.13079211

>post-college
lol

>> No.13079233

>>13074959
I'm still in college now (graduate this May) and I got my full time job in January. It was at the same company I interned at for. I started there interning at 14 an hour and over 2 years got bumped up to 16. Then in January got a permanent position for 42k and just last week was promoted to a job for 62k.

If u ain't go no internship, might as well kys

>> No.13079363

>>13075063
connectionlets when will they learn

>tfw 730 connections on linkedin even tho i'm not even out of my internship
>tfw some recruiters sends me dms on the regular for jobs
i don't how you loser do it to be such unproductive useless shits

>> No.13079402

Never. I had to get some other job related in the field.

>> No.13079419

>>13079363
>out of my internship
Ah, to be young and in a functioning economy where they just hand out internships to college kids.

Hell, you probably even got paid!

>> No.13079447

>>13076292
the biggest meme is thinking that 4chan is only for social outcasts when it's actually a popular normie board.

>> No.13079462

negative eight months....I was hired right off my internship and had a full time job in my field before I graduated.

>> No.13079476

3 or 4 months. No internship experience, but I just got lucky. I have a year long contract experience with a telecom company, but they make it out that if you do a good job, then they'd like to keep you with the company. Currently, I'm basically doing database entry in engineering drawings. I'm a mechanical engineer, pay is kind of low but 40 hours and the company environment is fun.

I'm going to gun for one of their fiber engineering positions

>> No.13079920

29 with one year internship expirience. graduating at 30 from civil engieneer school.

how fucked am im i ?

>> No.13079964

>>13075770
>And you all said /frat connections/ were a meme
biz was never opposed to kneepad career route

>> No.13080013

>>13074959

Feels good: accepted before graduating. started a week after school ended

Feels bad: 27k salary LOL

within 7 months i jumped to 47k so that was a fucking relief

>> No.13080210

>>13074959
Within a month and i did like a vocational diploma that takes a year for ict.

Got a helpdesk job and moved back to country of origin and after NEETing for half a year found a job within 2 weeks

>> No.13080331

>>13074959
I did an internship during college which made things a bit easier (I, like many anons in this thread, got my job offer before graduating). But what really did it for me is that on the day of the interview I was more awake and alert than on most days for some reason, so I was able to be super sociable during the interview instead of sperging out like always. Devil trips over here >>13078666 and >>13075063 are right; I finished with a weak GPA and fuckall for references, but still got the job just on the interview alone.

>> No.13080371

>>13074959
-3
Unpaid internship wasn't slavery after all

>> No.13080377

>>13077588
>I couldn't handle the corporate/office lifestyle tho. I'm a NEET now.
out of the many things to hate about corporate, what did you in the most?

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Why don’t you idiots do internships during college? What do you even do over the summer?
>worked 35hrs a week for 3 yrs through 2 part time jobs, related to my degree, while pursuing a double major.
>tfw senior year I had an additional full-time paid internship that counted as a full semesters worth of credits and then a subsequent internship that lasted for 2 months upon graduating.

I really don’t get it. I didn’t even apply to more than 10 positions upon graduating and easily landed a job making 70k/yr and I majored in fucking political science and philosophy.

>> No.13080409

>>13075037
It’s ogre bro

Start looking into the military or something

>> No.13080429

>>13077849
$2,600 in burgerdollars, that's about normal

It's low, but normal

>> No.13080437

>>13074959

never finished college, i am a wagie on 6 figures now. life is not that bad

>> No.13080438

>>13074959

3 weeks, but I'm a Canadian programmer and not some shitskin fuck

>> No.13080523

>>13075395
wha tthe fuck is that wage lil nigga ahahahaham i make more throwing shit with ex felons and the niggest of nigs

>> No.13080543

>>13079208
how the market be? dont give me a 5 word response i need 2 paragraphs

>> No.13080756

>>13074959
It’s taken me less than 4 months, but the pay is shit and it’s a robotic wageslave job to the max. Pay is $25k/yr before taxes. My plan is to work up enough to be able to move out to a different city.

It’s fucking gay, but the truth is that employers won’t even look at your application if you’re out of town. I wasted over 2 months applying to jobs all across the country without even an email back (except rejections). I got pissed so I spent 1 night barraging applications, applying to around 20 jobs in my area and received 3 phone calls the following morning, one of which turned into a job offer.

If you want a job in x city, move there first with enough cash to last you 6 months or so and start looking for jobs.

>> No.13080810

anyone have a good site for free resume?
im on a gaymac with no word processor

>> No.13080924

>>13080810
Use Google docs you retard. There's even a bunch of templates. You just need to fill them.

>> No.13080940

2 months. Graduated with an MIS degree with a 2.0. No debt. Now an analyst making 20/hr. Ultimately this opportunity came through a recruiter. My advice is to meet as many recruiters as you can. Pretty comfy rn

>> No.13080946

>>13080924
thanks bro, i was gonna do this but wondered if there was something better

cheers my niggas, im gonna get a dope marketing job now
t.business school drop out

>> No.13080966

A year before I graduated. I just needed that piece of paper that said i had a degree before they'd add me full time.

>> No.13080970

>>13074959
5 days (Industrial Engineer)

>> No.13080981

>>13080810
This is just embarrassing

>> No.13081001

Majored in Political Science and applied for all the internships in politics, political journalism and political consulting. Didn't get shit for 4 months, ended up taking a Data Analytics gig for a year. Then made the jump to Data Science and I'm now working as a Consultant for a Machine Learning Consulting firm.

>> No.13081007

>>13080981
brah fuck off of course i know of goog docs

was wondering if there was anything new or better

t.havnt made a resume in 3 years

but this one, will be my most impressive please believe daddy has been working behind the scenes with a start up's ceo providing all the reference i need

DADDYS GONNA MAKE IT BOYSSSS

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We're all gonna make it. Oh wait, this is /biz/.

>> No.13082388

>>13074959
Bretty long senpai
And I just got laid off with 17 other people, it was real sad.

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i worked immediately after graduating. i graduated with an economics meme-tier degree, got a web dev internship, started full time after graduating

didn't even walk at graduation, i was wageslaving

my dad told me to quit that job and move back with them "as long as you need" so i could get a "better job" with "better pay"

9 months later, 0 job opportuntiies. i have 5 yr experience at that web dev job.

i'm totally fucked. best thing i can get is a mcjob paying HALF of what i originally made.

NEVER TRUST A BOOMER

i don't dislike being NEET, i actually prefer it, i hate wageslaving and have little use for money (besides to buy food and whatnot, my hobbies don't cost any money) but my dad really fucking hates it (even though it's 100% his fault i'm unemployed now)

>> No.13082425

>>13074959
Four months. Now (almost one year as a business analyst) I know I was fucking lucky to get a very well paid job with collegues I like and interesting tasks, which require me to learn on the job.

>>13076062
>replaced 5-10 years by a computer
The auditor I work with said, that he heard this statement 15 years ago. It might become true for bookkeeping, but accounting is more than that.

>> No.13082449

>>13082420
At least your Dad doesn't give you advice and then blames you for it not just being obvious to you to take multiple unpaid internships.

>> No.13082456

>>13074970
Same, I spent quite a bit of time doing odd jobs and drinking my savings away before I found a fulltime job, starting at $25k/year. 4 years later and I make double that. Not much but it pays the bills.

>> No.13082464

>>13074959
a lifetime

>> No.13082468

>>13082449
>your Dad doesn't give you advice and then blames you for it
yes that's literally what he did

he thinks it's my fault that i have not gotten a better job, even though i can't force a person to give me a job

>for it not just being obvious to you to take multiple unpaid internships
so it's my fault i can't go back in time and force people against their will to give me jobs?

ok

i was extraordinarily lucky to get that first job. nobody owes me a job

>> No.13082496

>>13074959
About 7 years. Ran a small business for a while to pay off my debts and pretty much nullified everything I learned in college, making me unemployable.

>> No.13082574

>>13078410
Does your mom know you are a faggot? Do you work in Asia? I don't really think you would even be considered for a job interview if you never worked or went to school just because you can speak mongolian and indonesian

>>13077849
>>13077765
>>13077940
That is the reality of european salaries, and then you American faggots have the nerve to complain about only being able to save 30k out of your massive salaries

>> No.13082721

>>13082468
No, it’s your fault for quitting in the first place dummy.

>> No.13082817

>>13082721
i agree. it is my fault for taking his advice and quitting that shitty, illegal job. however, why should he get mad at me for following his advice? hmmmm

that's what irritates me. it's NOT HIS FAULT that nobody wants to hire me, but it's his fault that he bitches at me for being unemployed, when i am unemployed because i took his advice. the only reason

>> No.13082836

>>13082817
No one ever takes responsibility for bad advice. You wouldn't either.

>> No.13082872

my college did hire me, while I was still a student. Literally switched sides from one day to another.

comfy as fuck :)

>> No.13082892

>>13082836
>You wouldn't either.
sure i would. and i wouldn't castigate someone for being in a position solely as a result of taking my advice

i'd feel partially responsible, and try to help.

i know because, actually, i was in that position many times

>> No.13082897

>>13074959
>post-college
I worked while I went to school. I'm now middle mangement.

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>>13075356

>> No.13082964

aight boys, just whipped up my fuckin' 'me

im going to list it now, lets see how long it takes me

>> No.13082980

>>13082817
Ah I understand. Yes shitty situation

>> No.13082981

>>13074959
>be me
>go to college
>become clinically depressed
>become neet
>about to turn 32 in june
>it didn't get better

Am I doing OK ?

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any CIS majors here? did you end up getting a job with that degree? How do I get internships, does the school do the work in placing me, or do I still have to 'interview' for a fucking internship?

>> No.13083368

>>13083335
> do I still have to 'interview' for a fucking internship?

yep, you have a lot of people to compete with for a job that doesn't pay you any money

such is the current market

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>>13077991
>say hi to your phi mu gf
>tfw we were actually paired with them for homecoming last year

>> No.13083466

1 fuckin long ass year not even in my field of study

>> No.13083574

>>13079920

you'll be fine, get your EIT and write a kickass resume

>> No.13083647

>>13074959
I've been employed since I was 15. Zero lapse in employment. Before college, during college, after college... I've never understood why so many people struggle to find work. If you're treating your job search like a full time job and spend 40 hours a week dedicated to it, you'll be employed in a week.

>> No.13083676

>>13083647
>I've been employed since I was 15

So have I. But i'm still making peanuts

>> No.13083704

>>13083647
>I've never understood why so many people struggle to find work. If you're treating your job search like a full time job and spend 40 hours a week dedicated to it, you'll be employed in a week.
i've applied to over 1,000 jobs and haven't gotten anything in 9 months

you're just straight wrong

i have a meme degree [doesn't qualify me for anything] and 5 years of extremely specific work experience, and can't get a job doing that same thing for the life of me

>Zero lapse in employment
that's what my resume says, because i claim i still work "part time, remotely" at my old company

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>>13074959
I had 4 different jobs in college, usually holding 2 at the same time at any point. My GPA was just about 2.0, maybe lower. I make over $200,000 a year now

1. Intern at local electronics company (NJ)
2. Worked for a graduate professor as a webadmin for her various projects
3. Pizza delivery
4. Built my own forum (using some shitty PHP-based thing) which had adspace on it

I took a year off after college to chill then randomly got a call from a recruiter and took the first job that was offered to me within a week

Get shit done during college. Don't be lazy, and you'll make it anon

>> No.13083841

Econ and poli-sci double major, just graduated in december. Should I go back to school for some accounting/business knowledge? I'm applying to places rn, but my Econ degree doesn't seem skilled enough to get me a job.

>> No.13083911

>>13075456
This is true. You die if you work.

>> No.13083912

>>13074959
Started working one month after getting my degree.

>> No.13083958

>>13083704
You're saying my personal experience is wrong?
That is highly illogical.

Sure, I spent time in jobs making peanuts, but I work harder and smarter than everyone else and become their boss. I'm under 30 and I've gone through this exact process 3 times and in 3 different parts of the US. I've been at my current job for almost a year... started at the bottom, and am now the boss.

>> No.13083978

>>13080384
>What do you even do over the summer?
Study for exams.

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come at me bro

>> No.13083991

>>13083958
>You're saying my personal experience is wrong?
yes, because you extrapolate your experience to everyone else

>I can dunk a basketball, why can't you do it too, manlet? If I can do it, so can you!

It sounds that dumb

>That is highly illogical.
no, you're the illogical one

>Sure, I spent time in jobs making peanuts, but I work harder and smarter than everyone else and become their boss. I'm under 30 and I've gone through this exact process 3 times and in 3 different parts of the US. I've been at my current job for almost a year... started at the bottom, and am now the boss.
congratulations. that's just your personal experience though. not everyone can get hired. i have been trying for 9 months, nobody will hire me. it's fucked

>> No.13084020

>>13080384
>70k starting salary with that education.
Let me guess you work for AOC?

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>>13080377
The commute, the office politics, the fake people, the drama, the pointless meetings, calls, and busy work, and management never being available to support their team, working on a computer for 9 hours a day and working from home even after you wrap things up after a workday at the office. These are all things that I think sucked.

>> No.13084025

>>13074959
I worked for free for over a year before getting a job.

>> No.13084079

>>13083991
I'm literally telling you my personal experience. Not saying everyone can do what I have... but for fucks sake, be willing to work for peanuts and then be willing to work hard to get to where you want. Anyone can get a fucking job

>> No.13084103

>>13078410
>meet other people face to face to release some serotonin.

new copypasta

>> No.13084108

>>13083783
I wish my Dad told me that. I also wish that doing all of that shit wasn't required in the first place.
Our technology keeps increasing but our workload keeps getting worse.

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im on fire boys, ill be scooped up off indeed in no time

>> No.13084116

>>13084079
besides the military [which i am morally opposed to doing, and would probably be totally miserable doing it] i am not sure what kind of job i could get

seeing as i haven't gotten anything in 9 months

you said:

>If you're treating your job search like a full time job and spend 40 hours a week dedicated to it, you'll be employed in a week.

This simply isn't true at all, in my experience. nobody wants to hire me. not sure why, they just don't

>> No.13084142

>>13084116
You're fucking up anon. After 1,000 rejections you should know that you're doing something wrong and asking for a third-party to help identify it.
E.g. resume review or career coach.
Example: https://www.zipjob.com/free-review

If all else fails, you can probably get a job at McDonald's or Walmart.

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>>13084142
>Example: https://www.zipjob.com/free-review
I sent it, hopefully it will help. Although I've sent my shit to 7 different recruiters. They usually just find me ONE job opportunity, then I apply to it, and get turned down, and they never talk to me again...

>you can probably get a job at McDonald's or Walmart.
sounds like torture

i had a web dev job, making $18/hr. walmart or mcdix would be half that. my dad told me to quit because he said i was "guaranteed" a "better job" with "better pay" see: >>13082420

it just really fucking pisses me off more, that I quit a job so i could go into something paying me half as much, worse hours, no way to move up.

>> No.13084230

>>13084185
I'm surprised you're having so much trouble when you have 5 years of web development experience.
What I would do is take a few days to build a portfolio, and put the link on your resume. That change by itself has gotten me more responses.

As an aside, here is an example of a great resume: https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/comments/6r21ha/was_interviewed_for_5_of_15_outofstate_jobs_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Notice how he focuses on the RESULTS he brought to his companies, rather than just what his job description was. That sort of thing stands out.

>> No.13084263

>>13079363
Are connections on linkedin not like friends on facebook, where you can get ten thousand and none of them mean anything?

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>>13084230
>build a portfolio
I have no money to even afford hosting for a website to put that sort of thing on. That's the problem. I have a list of fifty websites I made for the companies I worked for, which I send upon request.

>As an aside, here is an example of a great resume: https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/comments/6r21ha/was_interviewed_for_5_of_15_outofstate_jobs_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
>Notice how he focuses on the RESULTS he brought to his companies, rather than just what his job description was. That sort of thing stands out.

Yeah my job didn't really work like that. I have no idea what money was paid or anything. I was deliberately kept out of the loop on that. I was just given coding tasks, I did them, fucked around in the mean time, that's it.

I did 5 years of the same exact thing, over and over and over again. I became extremely fast, efficient at pumping out websites and so I just kept getting them, and doing them. Then doing maintenance on the shitty, old websites.

My entire resume is mostly just lies, exaggerations as to what I did.

pic related, this is essentially what I have after taking the advice from some free "resume help" service online

>> No.13084360

>>13074959
Ended up with a felony charge for selling some kind a bag of weed. No big company would touch me. Ended up working for a self employed professional (cool dude). Taught me how to run my own shop and sent me back to grad school so I could get a license. I can't see myself doing anything else. Fuck corporate hr.

>> No.13085367

>>13084263
Also wondering this. Is it the norm to just spam friend requests to people within the same company or college? I've only really added my friends and people I've drank with or had meaningful conversations with.

>> No.13085404

>>13075160
jealous boy. boo hoo hoo

>> No.13085419

>>13084309
im trying to get basic marketing job. what programs do you recommend learning for updating keywords and content? or can i just provide the existing webmaster with necessary updates

>> No.13085454

>>13085419
>im trying to get basic marketing job. what programs do you recommend learning for updating keywords and content?
honestly, i never once did that shit. i did no SEO stuff, i just put that on my resume for fluff

i did only the coding

you're talking about, getting a job where you're editing websites? usually they will use some CMS and have you edit the stuff there. you'd only need to know HTML, maybe a bit of CSS. this isn't even programming, just formatting. like a clickable link is:

<a href="http://google.com">Click here for google</a>


>or can i just provide the existing webmaster with necessary updates
the way we did it, there was a very simple text/content editor

google image search "admin panel wordpress" and you will see basically what i'm talking about

>> No.13085871

>>13083783
>I took a year off after college to chill then randomly got a call from a recruiter and took the first job that was offered to me within a week
WHAT job lets you make 200K what the fuck anon

>> No.13086046

>>13077544
fuck off spic.

>> No.13086086

>>13085871
larp

>> No.13086517

>graduating soon
>applied to many places
>nothing yet
>might just be doing survey work for $12/hr at my internship full time over the summer again
Could be worse I guess

>> No.13086585

>>13078789


the assumptions are strong with this one. I aint even a spic you faggot envious peace of shit. hahaha

and my parents didnt come here illegally. they are UN diplomats.

immigration laws in this country are all sorts of fucked up. but i really dont give a shit to explain myself to someone who likes blaming other people for their own problems rather than doing something about it themselves..

GO KYS

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>>13078789

and FYI JPmorgan is doing just fine it's going no where.. last i checked it was JP Morgan who bailed out the united states during the first economic meltdown.. we make our clients plenty of money and all their portfolios are diversified to weather a major recession...

if we do have another recession it will be a currency crisis, which will mean the price on anything worth of value will sky rocket, including equities of companies actually producing shit...

go cry in a corner with your shitty 10k LINK stack. Lmao. faggot. seriously go KYS

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>>13074959
I didn’t

>> No.13086664

>>13074959
i never had issues finding a job, make sure your CV is in good shape and by good shape i mean well written. Anticipate what people might be curious about in your situation and catch it before they need to talk to you to ask it. If they see a CV and have some questions its easier for them not having to ask by havign you provide the answer.

Be concise in your CV and load as many information in it as you can, while still keeping it concise of course

>> No.13086685

>>13086664

OP this is good advice. and ignore all the miserable and salty people who will try to bring you down.

>> No.13086724

>>13086685
thanks, got no degree and been very well received in the companies i have worked at. The company should be thankful that you offer your services to them, not the other way around. Not that you need to be impolite about it, but some arrogance will help you and as you said wont make others bring you down.

>> No.13086801

>>13086585
You have to go back

>> No.13086839

0 days. I was hired on during my practicum.

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>>13074959
>Finished college in 2015
>Accounting/Finance degree. No student loan debt.
>Apply to 450 jobs over 3 months.
>Only job I can get is as a bookkeeper/Excel jockey in this really shitty law firm for 12 bucks an hour.
>mfw im the only White person there and my boss is this crazy Jewish female lawyer.
>mfw everyone else that works there is a ghetto person from the inner city.
>Walk in there every day at 8AM. Have to sit at a desk for 8 hours (not including my 1 hour lunch break) in a shitty office with a concrete floor.
>Office barely had heat and A/C. Only had these things because someone in the office reported my boss to OSHA a few years back.
>Manage to hack it for 7 months just so I can put it on my resume that I worked in a law firm (oooh).
>Decide to devote the past 2 years to learning how to program(mentored, spent lots of money on a really good coding bootcamp, self-taught, building up a decent Github, etc.)
>applied to 2,000 coding/programming jobs since beginning of 2018.
>Only got 8 interviews out of all those applications.
>mfw closest I got to a job was this cool startup. Said they wanted to hire me and pay me in "stock options".
>said I couldn't cash the stock out for 3 years(scam alert).
>Walked out. Never went back.
>Currently back working a shitty wagecuck retail job to make ends meet.
>Only realistic hope of making it now is crypto.
I can only imagine how fucked Gen Z is going to be if things don't change. I fought the good fight guys. The only reason it doesn't bother me is because I literally gave it my all and didn't bullshit around.

>> No.13086954

Less than 6 months, accounting job, sociology degree. Suck it nerds

>> No.13087022

>>13086927
Is this "when keepin' it real goes wrong"? lmao I have questions though
>why condescend to bookkeeping when this is your first out of college job and you were just a scrub?
>why couldn't you manage to get promoted if it was beneath you?
>why get into programming when it is obersaturated and highly competitive?
>do you regret your decisions now that you are wagecucking retail?
>are you voting for yang2020?

>> No.13087069

>>13075007
This is roughly true. Was about 1.5 year for me but I was pursuing civil service stuff for a solid year so I don't count that. Internships are key if you took the blue pill. The redpill is providing a service and literally creating a job for yourself (or freelancing, to which I've since segued).

>> No.13087090

>>13086927
Go to a recruiter/staffing company, they literally get paid when one of their hiring clients hires you. Freelancing is tough to get going in that field unless you already have reliable contacts or former clients. Not that it's impossible, there are certainly opportunities, though if you're just scouring online job boards or whatever you're obviously looking at the most saturated job boards that ever existed. So yeah.

>> No.13087120

>>13074959
Less than a week.

>> No.13087123

>>13084113
>expecting anyone to give a shit about online assessment scores
online assessments are actually just a red herring to test how little self-respect you have, anon

>> No.13087348

>>13074959
Remember to sell your soul to the female hr Department

>> No.13087419

>>13087090
>recruiter company
i guess some cucks need a dedicated slavedriver

>> No.13087645

>>13074959
1 years.

11 months of NEETing then my mom told me to go get job already and so I abided. 1 week of job hunting, 3 weeks of everything else.

>> No.13087674

>>13087419
Kek

>> No.13088128 [DELETED] 

>>13074959

Opening up this March

https://youtu.be/OIamCXZ6CZI

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827989.680

>> No.13088222

>>13086927

I really wonder how much of a retard you have to be to get rejected for 2000 open positions. Damn your resume and application letters must really suck.
At least you're persistent 4+ applications per day is insane. Regarding the amount of applications a company gets you would think random chance will result in more than 8/2000 interviews.

>> No.13088670

>>13086927

theres more to the story. i did accounting and was employed within a month

>> No.13088727

>3 months and nothing
>tfw you're so desperate you make a company up and say you are employed there just to bs the experience factor
>had 5 phone interviews and 1 in person so far
Kill me or give me a job already.

>> No.13088746

>>13074970
Aprox a year. I was waging for amazon meanwhile and got kicked out after 6 month's because my score was too low. Went room cleaning for airbnbs and then got a supervisor position for airline callcenter.

>> No.13089351

All of these people claiming to have applied to hundreds of job positions and ultimately received no offers are are most likely lying in a pathetic attempt to justify their lack of success in obtaining a decent job. If that’s not the case, then they must just be austistic.

I’m 25. At age 16, my 18 year old buddy left his webdev position and offered it to me. I took it, and held onto it for the next 6 years until the company was purchased by another company. That company offered to pay me even more than what the prior company was paying me. While I wasn’t making much money from this, it was just enough to cover my living expenses while studying for my degree.

My family has never had much money, my parents didn’t attend college, and one didn’t even graduate from high school. As a result, I’ve had to be self-reliant throughout this whole process.

In college, I received scholarships that covered the majority of my tuition. At age 19, I took up a job as a computer technician for the uni and later became a research assistant for a professor, which subsequently led to a paid internship with a senator. Once I graduated, this internship opened up plenty of job opportunities.

I worked my ass off and now I’m living a sweet life. All I see in this thread are losers who are blaming others, like their parents, for giving them bad advice.

My advice: suck it up, stop whining, and start working hard and try to become a sociable person.

>> No.13089361

>>13074959
I got headhunted before I finished.