The Minnesota workforce centers are closed state wide do to the gov't shut down. They provide assistance to unemployed people: classes on interviews, resumes, employment opportunities. I have been looking for a job for 18 months now and haven't gotten a single interview; just a collection of thank you emails from companies for sending in an application and my resume.
Is it better to cold call or pound the pavement? Is it OK just to walk in and ask? Or do I need to make arrangements beforehand? Wither by internet or newspaper. It seems that if you ask five HR people, you'll get five different answers to each question. With no repeats! THAT is what frustrates me more then anything. You can't create a strategy and stick with it. You have to constantly change up what you're doing. You need to have a dozen or more variations on your resume/cover letter depending on what you are going for. Green lights for one interviewer are red lights to another. Worst of all you don't get any feed back afterward because that requires calling and that makes you seem desperate and that turns them off to you. WHY???? Why does wanting the job make you not a fit?????? Why does wanting to please make them not consider you???? And don't get me started on those questioners where you have 50 minutes to fill out 100 questions and there questions you really have to think about but you can't you need to finish in the time limit, and worst of all half the questions have nothing to do with the job you're applying for!!!!! And they'll repeat the same one worded 10 different ways. AAARRRAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes it feels like I have to blackmail or threaten someone to even get a foot in the door. We're in end of my rope territory here. I just don't know what else to do.
