Gah and Bleh.
Aug. 26th, 2003 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quidditchgrrlStopped in at my new job Saturday to get my e-mail account set up, look at my first week's schedule. I go home with a three-inch stack of spreadsheets (with some fucked-up way that my boss wants the schedule done), a pile of applications for the two Library Aide (read shelver) jobs that are open, and various other things I just haven't gotten around to looking at yet.
Am insanely busy at current job, no short-timers disease for me! Must...complete...innumerable...projects...
My most abject apologies to those whom I owe e-mail and beta work. I promise to be caught up by the end of the week.
Speaking of, I am traveling to Pittsburgh Saturday to meet the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mareisse in person! Yay for mid-point meeting up! Boo to DIT who'd better behave himself! I am really psyched, can you tell? *does gleeful dance*
In looking over the applications that have come in for these shelving jobs (and you can tell this economy is in the toilet, because I have twelve applications for a part-time job, and only two are teenagers), I get a sense that people are in the business of Too Much Information. Am I the only one who takes care only to list what is asked for and nothing else? The only one concerned about hiding my little skeletons?
Maybe you shouldn't list your psychiatrist as a reference - or at least refrain from inserting that tidbit above his name when it only asks for name (and not relationship)? And pair that with the fact that you haven't worked since 1987 (when you were in high school), and you're not gonna make the interview pool. Nope.
And when the HR person asks what your current boss would say, it'd be best not to mention the fact that you tend to be late (and to give the girl some credit, I do want to ask her about why she couldn't get to work; it's possible she had to be at work directly after school and traffic held her up) and focus instead on your work ethic or your bubbly personality. Don't mention that you don't like to organize displays.
*sigh* I did get it down to three, though. One woman who had been laid off and was working part-time for her church's children's programs, another who'd worked for a small library system (although I'm vaguely worried that every job she's left, her reasoning was 'better job'), and the teenager mentioned above. Will have to work in interviews between RL and current job. I think I'll schedule interviews for midnight on Fridays. *sigh*
Am insanely busy at current job, no short-timers disease for me! Must...complete...innumerable...projects...
My most abject apologies to those whom I owe e-mail and beta work. I promise to be caught up by the end of the week.
Speaking of, I am traveling to Pittsburgh Saturday to meet the lovely
mareisse in person! Yay for mid-point meeting up! Boo to DIT who'd better behave himself! I am really psyched, can you tell? *does gleeful dance*In looking over the applications that have come in for these shelving jobs (and you can tell this economy is in the toilet, because I have twelve applications for a part-time job, and only two are teenagers), I get a sense that people are in the business of Too Much Information. Am I the only one who takes care only to list what is asked for and nothing else? The only one concerned about hiding my little skeletons?
Maybe you shouldn't list your psychiatrist as a reference - or at least refrain from inserting that tidbit above his name when it only asks for name (and not relationship)? And pair that with the fact that you haven't worked since 1987 (when you were in high school), and you're not gonna make the interview pool. Nope.
And when the HR person asks what your current boss would say, it'd be best not to mention the fact that you tend to be late (and to give the girl some credit, I do want to ask her about why she couldn't get to work; it's possible she had to be at work directly after school and traffic held her up) and focus instead on your work ethic or your bubbly personality. Don't mention that you don't like to organize displays.
*sigh* I did get it down to three, though. One woman who had been laid off and was working part-time for her church's children's programs, another who'd worked for a small library system (although I'm vaguely worried that every job she's left, her reasoning was 'better job'), and the teenager mentioned above. Will have to work in interviews between RL and current job. I think I'll schedule interviews for midnight on Fridays. *sigh*
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Date: 2003-08-26 05:28 pm (UTC)*bows at your busy feet*
You are some dedicated, I tell ya!
*glomps*
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Date: 2003-08-26 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-26 06:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-26 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-26 06:25 pm (UTC)Aside from this year and a half break, I've worked in circulation since 1998 in the same library system. I got my chops! I'm thinking about library school (MLS); it'd be more money and more clout, certainly.
We shall make plans to meet up, just say the word!
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Date: 2003-08-26 07:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-27 08:43 am (UTC)