Good Job Juju

[fatrockstar]

Send me good job juju! I have submitted yet another application for a Program Manager position. All the ones that fit my skillset are in games, which is already a tough nut to crack on that virtue alone. I'm getting tired of the recruiter filter. My resume does NOT suck, it is NOT lacking in any required buzzwords or relevant skills, and while I understand the whole "create a new resume for every job you apply for" there hasn't been enough variation in the jobs I'm applying for to warrant that.

Managers like my resume. Recruiters don't. If I could get past the recruiters I would have a job by now. "Oh, but Wynne, the recruiters are supposed to filter out bad resumes so the hiring managers don't waste their time!" I call bullshit on that. Did you not read the part where I say my resume does not suck? The interviews I landed did not involve recruiters of any kind. I got great feedback from my interviewers regarding my resume. I think it's pretty safe to assume it's not my resume that's keeping me unemployed.

So I'm applying through a recruiter once again. I'm not sure how else to do it. Everyone with a job opening and a connection passes along to me that I have to go through "the official channels" to get recognized. This is a fancy way of saying "please talk to the black hole known as our recruiters."

I'm crossing my fingers this time around. Not sure why. As much as I'm sick of being ignored and told "no," I know there will eventually be a "yes." I'm hoping this is it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it IS. Why?

I'll tell you why. Garret's parents surprised us with a trip to Palm Springs. We leave on Thursday in the afternoon and will be gone a week. For some reason my last two ventures beyond the state line have generated time-sensitive job activity. At some point during my vacation I will receive a phone call asking me if I can make it to a X o'clock interview the next day, OR I will get a frantic phone call asking me if I can start right away because it's urgent and OMGWTFHOLYCRAP they need to know NOW otherwise they'll give this opportunity to someone else. While this would be great, it only seems to happen when I am physically incapable of following through in a timely manner.

This worries the crap out of me, and for good reason. I'm sick of being unemployed. It doesn't look good to employers and it doesn't do ME any good. I want to work. I want to do something new, to be challenged, to enjoy what I do. Two out of three would be great. It would crush me to miss out on something because I got surprised with the gift of a week in the sunshine. It shouldn't, but it's the truth.

I told my dad this and all he could do is repeat the same sentence over and over again until he was shouting it: "It doesn't do you any good to worry about that while you're on vacation." I finally had to shout back at him to STFU because his shouting wasn't getting his point across, it was just irritating me that he didn't seem to understand my dilemma. I don't just miss out on being able to go to an interview. Because I'm not available for work and will undoubtedly fail to report for a scheduled job interview I miss out on my unemployment check, too. A whole host of problems follow. Just thinking about them stresses me out.

It was a good holiday anyway. I got a lot of stuff from the Blues, had a nice dinner. Garret went out at the very last minute to buy my gift, a practice that rattles my tree rather harshly. On Xmas morning I opened a box from my husband containing a Shure wireless in-ear monitor system. Holy. Shit.

So... send me some good juju for this job thing, eh?

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[niroc.livejournal.com]

"Yikes" on the gift...
And "goooo Wynne goooo" on the jobhunt thingie...