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catscradle May. 25th, 2005 09:42 am)
catscradle May. 25th, 2005 09:42 am)In the space of two days I've gotten four calls for job interviews. It looks like the law school doesn't take you too seriously unless you have a masters degree, as I've never heard back from them in the past. I've applied to many positions there. Now I have two interviews there next week. Woohoo! Go me. It's nice to know that the degree is actually swinging a few doors open for me :)
My main gripe is still the fact that employers really don't know how to write a job description. They either leave out half the job description and then wonder why you applied for it if you weren't qualified or they toss in a ton of crap the position isn't remotely responsible for and then wonder why your interested in it because you won't be doing anything that they advertised you would. It boogles the mind. Though it shouldn't. I know my boss doesn't know all the shit I do. I remember the last review I had when she was shocked to discover my actual duties. The good thing was she put me in for a raise, but damn. How do you not know what your subordinates are doing?
Now I'm coming across employers that don't know what it means when they put "competitive" under wages. Competitive should always be at least 30K/yr and comparable to other jobs in the same classification for the region. It should also be a salaried position, but I'll not get into that now. I see postings for competitive wages that are turing out to be $10-$14/hr with the typical starting wage elsewhere being much higher. That's not competitive by any stretch of the imagination. Obviously they're looking for a larger pool and hoping the market is pissy enough that when they break it to a prospective employee that they're going to make $12/hr they'll still take it out of desparation. Many do. But then they're going to book out of there at the first opportunity, so why bother with that? I look at so many postings on campus that are listed again a few months later. They could circumvent that in most cases if they just advertised the real salary range.
Ah well.
Having people come to the condo today to give us a better cooling system. Apparently this involves the building of false ceilings and a lot of piping work. The unfortunate warming trend for the Colorado summer makes this a necessity lest we all roast and die.
And last I checked I'm still clear to graduate June 3rd. Woohoo! Not that this can change at this point, but I'm paranoid now...
My main gripe is still the fact that employers really don't know how to write a job description. They either leave out half the job description and then wonder why you applied for it if you weren't qualified or they toss in a ton of crap the position isn't remotely responsible for and then wonder why your interested in it because you won't be doing anything that they advertised you would. It boogles the mind. Though it shouldn't. I know my boss doesn't know all the shit I do. I remember the last review I had when she was shocked to discover my actual duties. The good thing was she put me in for a raise, but damn. How do you not know what your subordinates are doing?
Now I'm coming across employers that don't know what it means when they put "competitive" under wages. Competitive should always be at least 30K/yr and comparable to other jobs in the same classification for the region. It should also be a salaried position, but I'll not get into that now. I see postings for competitive wages that are turing out to be $10-$14/hr with the typical starting wage elsewhere being much higher. That's not competitive by any stretch of the imagination. Obviously they're looking for a larger pool and hoping the market is pissy enough that when they break it to a prospective employee that they're going to make $12/hr they'll still take it out of desparation. Many do. But then they're going to book out of there at the first opportunity, so why bother with that? I look at so many postings on campus that are listed again a few months later. They could circumvent that in most cases if they just advertised the real salary range.
Ah well.
Having people come to the condo today to give us a better cooling system. Apparently this involves the building of false ceilings and a lot of piping work. The unfortunate warming trend for the Colorado summer makes this a necessity lest we all roast and die.
And last I checked I'm still clear to graduate June 3rd. Woohoo! Not that this can change at this point, but I'm paranoid now...
