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Looking for a job

LavenderPiano

This is mainly a rant about my job searching situation and a bit of background.

I've been looking for a stable job for a few years now, since graduating from uni, but it's such a struggle. I managed to work as a barista for a few months and my confidence improved a lot, but I just couldn't communicate that well with others, and I still can't. I basically got fired from the job but the manager said that it was a 'temporary' job and that it was in my contract even though it was blank. I should have really asked about it at the time but I didn't think it was that important. I was kind of sad from it but also a bit relieved because I hated most customers lol.

I got another job after that as a technician on a casual contract at a theatre, as I thought I wanted to work in the music industry. However, I only ever worked one shift in a year and I hated it. As a short, skinny girl in her early 20's I wasn't really built for it lol.

Anyway, I decided it wasn't for me and I did a short office admin course, because I like making schedules and to-do lists, and thought a career in admin might suit me well. Turns out you have to have experience working as an admin assistant and you have to have 'excellent communication skills', yay (sarcastic). I'm not even sure if I would enjoy it, but I'm sick of not having a stable job. I'm worried about my future and I need to get out of the house.

In an ideal world, I'd love to have a stable, remote job where I can travel the world and learn different languages in my spare time, while feeling comfortable enough to live on my own. When I look anything up about this, it says about being a freelancer but I don't really want a heavily creative job, or it says about going into education, but I feel like I've been in education enough and now I'm just ready to be stable. 

I also worry about not being able to do the job properly and misunderstanding what I'm supposed to do, as I have made many mistakes in my previous jobs. 

I'd love to hear about other people's experience with looking for a job or some advice.

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  • In the last year I estimate that I've applied for 200 jobs and got 20 interviews. These were a mixture of in person, by phone and by video.

    I also attended a year long employability course, one day a week.

    And I'm still unemployed and desperately short of cash to even pay the rent.

    There is some good news in a negative way which I'm keeping to myself.

  • in reply to Robert124
    Robert124 said:
    In the last year I estimate that I've applied for 200 jobs and got 20 interviews.

    That is not a bad ratio. 

    10 to 1 is better than I used to get and i wasn't out of work for long. It can depend a lot on the field as I noticed that IT had a lot of fake jobs which a freind who works in recruiting told me to keep an eye out for.

    Many are CV harvesting schemes to then sell to marketing firms who will then target for for training courses, coaching sessions, CV improvement services etc.

    The roles that tend to be very vague but with a decent salary are the ones they typically use as they can get a lot of applicants who meet some of the vague criteria.

    Getting better at interviews is the one skill that really helps though - lots of masking is required, but at the end it will always be hard for us to survive in a mostly NT environment afterwards.

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  • in reply to Robert124
    Robert124 said:
    In the last year I estimate that I've applied for 200 jobs and got 20 interviews.

    That is not a bad ratio. 

    10 to 1 is better than I used to get and i wasn't out of work for long. It can depend a lot on the field as I noticed that IT had a lot of fake jobs which a freind who works in recruiting told me to keep an eye out for.

    Many are CV harvesting schemes to then sell to marketing firms who will then target for for training courses, coaching sessions, CV improvement services etc.

    The roles that tend to be very vague but with a decent salary are the ones they typically use as they can get a lot of applicants who meet some of the vague criteria.

    Getting better at interviews is the one skill that really helps though - lots of masking is required, but at the end it will always be hard for us to survive in a mostly NT environment afterwards.

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