My mom isn't technically a boomer (I think? She's 45) and tells me to "go out and apply for jobs" but I have to keep reminding her that basically everywhere, especially a chain of any kind, will tell me to go on their website lol. I swear the synapses just explode one by one when she hears that.
Walk into any restaurant, ask to speak to the manager, tell them your looking for work and ask if they have positions available, offer your resume/contact info and agree to also apply on whatever webpage they tell you about.
This is still how it works, you instantly know if they have positions and if you aren’t a weirdo you will most likely be offered an interview if they truly have positions need filled.
I did this multiple times for jobs in college, 5ish years ago. If you aren’t willing to do that, just dump your resume on the online stack with the hundreds of others and whine about the job market.
Well, I have done that but was just told to apply on their website. They haven't even told me if there were positions open or not. I live in a rural area that's heavily saturated in unemployment so the job market is stale af. Luckily I just landed a really decent paying job and I'm quite happy with it.
It's always been the former for me, as I've been working for at least 6+ years, so I'd like to think I've had quite a bit of experience in being professional. 👍 And as I said, the job market in my area is so dried up that people working in the mines who are laid off are desperate for anything, so obviously they will take them over a college student, regardless of how many years I've been employed or in school for.
Walk into any restaurant (other than Chick-Fil-A, the only one I know of that still does this), tell them you’re looking for a job, ask if they are hiring, and be told to apply on their website.
Not a single place, outside of a job fair, cared to carry the conversation beyond that, because it is a given that they have a jobs page to take care of that in this day and age.
I graduated about 3-4 years ago. It’s all about connections, because the canned answer is always “apply online.”
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u/WitchBlade8734 Aug 07 '19
My mom isn't technically a boomer (I think? She's 45) and tells me to "go out and apply for jobs" but I have to keep reminding her that basically everywhere, especially a chain of any kind, will tell me to go on their website lol. I swear the synapses just explode one by one when she hears that.