Every Step a Battle: Finding a Job

Looking for work.  There is gas, the clothes, the time it will take to get a job, have the skills, and right attitude. And to be ready to fill out tax forms, application, interview, and to wait for a call back.  Then there is the moment of truth, answering the question,  "Why do you want this job?"  This is the ice breaker of all interview questions because it is the only time your heart rings and the colors of your personality flair in the response to this one question.

The clock is ticking, minds are churning, and you the job candidates heart is burning.  You start to wonder by the second the idea of the position comes to mind and you see that the resources are all right in front of you from the advertisement to the contact information.  You begin to research the company first and notice that there isn't that much on the web site that you feel you can grasp and your palms begin to sweat.  You make the telephone call to the general company and the switch board operator transfers your call a few times as it bumps back to her before you get a voice mail of the human resources office.  Then for the companies or agencies that don't have such a department as human resources, you ask to speak to the hiring manager.

You begin to feel the tension when they tell you that they are busy or not in right now and you ask them what a better time to call would be as you refrain from giving a message for them to relay to the hiring manager.  While the employee on duty asked you for a message you keep if brief as a little goes a long way as you know and put a little check mark or notation near the company for your files.

Moving on to the next company you will notice that the same thing occurs and its risky since the hour you call is suggested which is near opening, and calling around noon as you may have noticed from the time you graduated school is lunch time and you'll most likely get a voice mail box in which may be full and you have better luck then to call back without the pressure of thinking if you should wait for them to return your voice mail or call back in an hour.  Either way you want to follow up on your application, or ask for an informational interview, and keep plugging away after hearing from several companies in two days that they are not hiring. 

Maybe all this is just the articles and research you have been reading about mixed with the news of the economy.  You know from experience that every company is different in handling their hiring procedures and the one that is a good match for you is the one that works for you.