Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Go make yourself useful

The time has come! Well the time has really come and gone and come again for me to find a job. I tried on my own during the later summer months and didn't get anywhere, then it got too close to the wedding and I stopped for a bit. Now that my name is changed and the new year is here it's hunting time again. I hate job hunting (not that anybody likes it)! The anxiety that comes along with trying to sell myself in interviews and having to learn a whole new system at a new office is rough.

Along with hunting myself on craigslist, monster and career builder, I went in to AppleOne last week. I got to fill out a lovely half our long online application before I went, then went in and filled out some more paperwork, took some safety and basic clerical test, and had my interview with my "staffing consultant". After that they email you a link with, surprise, MORE tests to take! Of course they wouldn't work on the mac we had at home so over the weekend Alex let me go to his work and use one of the computers there to take my four tests. So, after all that, all I can do is sit and wait really. I keep looking on my sites and sending in my resume to places I find and the person at AppleOne keeps her eye out for companies that sign up through them and sends my resume out. The job market really sucks right now, even for just a receptionist/office assistant...wish me luck!!