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I'd go to one for sure, I need a break from managers telling me sob stories about how times are tough for business and shops are shutting "left and right" *walked past 50 or so shops to hand my resume to you dude, what the gently caress are you rambling about*
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I'd go to one too. Also Anidav, I'll let you know next time my work is recruiting. It's casual/no guaranteed hours (I've been working 10+ hours every weekend recently though. Dat Sunday rate) but it's also cruisy and most of my coworkers are uni students so they're used to dealing with changing availability. I've worked there for 3.5 years with no issues except for wanting more hours, and dealing with a sometimes belligerent public. You don't have to sell anything, it's pure customer service.
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Maybe when you finish your degree you will know how to advertise yourself better to employers?
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Anidav posted:I'd go to one for sure, I need a break from managers telling me sob stories about how times are tough for business and shops are shutting "left and right" To be fair, it is pretty hard for a lot of businesses these days. Consumer confidence is at an all time low (I wonder why!), rent prices for shops keep going up in the inner Bris metro area and the over all environment for small business is pretty poor lately. If you're ever around the Mater hospital, check out the stretch of storefronts along Vulture St there. They're pretty much empty with a few exceptions, and I'm seeing a lot like that around Brisbane lately. Unless, of course, you're a big chain. Then you give no fucks.
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Also posting as in for the pro goon meet crowd. Now working for state government so i uh don't recall.
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Anidav posted:A year and a half or so, Advertising major :L https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
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Aug 11, 2014 09:05
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AusPol: Planting Seeds.
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nogthree posted:Also posting as in for the pro goon meet crowd. state gov workers represent.
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Kommando posted:I think its time for another brisgoon meet at the Stokehouse. yes.
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Also Southbank corp is kicking out a shitload of businesses from Southbank for no apparent reason so yeah, I'd agree that business is rather odd in QLD atm. However, gently caress youth unemployment up the rear end. Since when is being young a toxic addition to the workplace. Shelfpacking jobs should be jumping for joy at all these young back bones yet to be ruined. But nah big biz would rather import labour and turn to channel 10 news and spout bullshit about a "skills shortage"
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BevChain at Hendra need picker packers. http://www.actionworkforce.com.au/ general office stuff http://www.kellyservices.com.au/au/auHome/ Council and others do free resume services, you might want to get it checked out by a professional or get the idiots guide to resumes from the library. No joke, its a good book to get all the big and small mistakes removed from your resume.
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Lizard Combatant posted:AusPol: Planting Seeds. Auspol Collective Suicide Farm.
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BTW Roy Morgan is back out to 56% ALP on 2PP - +1.5 from last poll. Can't even turn a national tragedy into a poll bounce mister speaker.
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When it comes to resumes, a lot of it comes down to the look. You're competing with anywhere over 200-1000 odd other applications, you need your resume to look professional and stand out. I cannot help but laugh whenever I see a word doc resume because it just looks like no effort went in at all. Indesign is good for resume making if you can...acquire a copy, for a fair price.
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CrazyTolradi posted:When it comes to resumes, a lot of it comes down to the look. You're competing with anywhere over 200-1000 odd other applications, you need your resume to look professional and stand out. I cannot help but laugh whenever I see a word doc resume because it just looks like no effort went in at all. Having seen my fair share of resumes I half agree. If you're a design major or working in the "marketing field" I would object to a half-assed resume made from a standard word processor. If it's for a technical field a word document is fine though, because you're going to be looking for substance moreover than style.
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Kommando posted:I think its time for another brisgoon meet at the Stokehouse. I'm all for a goonmeet, but perhaps at a place which doesn't have 24 dollar entrees.
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My resume is apparently grouse (source: people who interview me and then don't give me a job) and it's just a word document with a nice font and layout (saved as a PDF obvs because gently caress people who send .docx files)
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CrazyTolradi posted:When it comes to resumes, a lot of it comes down to the look. You're competing with anywhere over 200-1000 odd other applications, you need your resume to look professional and stand out. I cannot help but laugh whenever I see a word doc resume because it just looks like no effort went in at all. Hell, you can get it as part of Creative Cloud for $20 a month.
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In other news, Alex Douglas has quit the PUP. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-11/palmer-united-party-queensland-leader-alex-douglas-quits/5662862
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xutech posted:I'm all for a goonmeet, but perhaps at a place which doesn't have 24 dollar entrees. As a uni student, I fully agree with this statement.
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Haters Objector posted:My resume is apparently grouse (source: people who interview me and then don't give me a job) and it's just a word document with a nice font and layout (saved as a PDF obvs because gently caress people who send .docx files) Don't .docx me, bro.
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Small Keating posted:In other news, Alex Douglas has quit the PUP. Ha, that article reminded me that Bob Katter exists. Ever thought about what it would be like if he became PM? Hilarious.
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poo poo, even word docs are out with you job creators? brb writing up a HTML5 website with a video in Silverlight saying how great I am.
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gently caress it, just write out your entire resume by hand. It'll make you stand out, or something!
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Cleretic posted:gently caress it, just write out your entire resume by hand. It'll make you stand out, or something! 
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Cleretic posted:gently caress it, just write out your entire resume by hand. It'll make you stand out, or something! My girlfriend actually had to do this last week, and it was a requirement (working for the Austrian courts in Vienna). Still trying to understand why they would require it.
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Here's a devious idea: Walk into a bunch of bottleshops and offer the employee working there (if it's not the owner) to hand their resume around and get them a different job.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:Ha, that article reminded me that Bob Katter exists. Ever thought about what it would be like if he became PM? Hilarious. We had Joh. Imagine the Tonton Macute post stroke.
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Direct job creator to a cave where you have wall painted your resume then proceed to do interpretative dance and pray it rains jobs.
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xutech posted:I'm all for a goonmeet, but perhaps at a place which doesn't have 24 dollar entrees. Me too, would be neat to put faces to posts. I am a filthy poor too, maybe we should have our own prole goonmeet at central Hungry Jack's
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Anidav posted:Direct job creator to a cave where you have wall painted your resume then proceed to do interpretative dance and pray it rains jobs. Still better for finding jobs than searching Seek.
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Seek is the worst website ever and I've never actually known a person who has found a job there. Also that loving website has been putting up mere "expression of interest" for months. Why the gently caress do you care to add an extra step to applying for a waitstaff job, jesus why.
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Cleretic posted:gently caress it, just write out your entire resume by hand. It'll make you stand out, or something! Cut the letters out of magazines.
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 How creative! You're hired!
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Lizard Combatant posted:AusPol: Planting Seeds. Tony's Green Army
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Anidav posted:Seek is the worst website ever and I've never actually known a person who has found a job there. I've gotten a single interview from combing Seek, and it was for a data entry job advertised by a recruitment agency, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't count. Thing is, since I don't have any contacts, and I'm not exactly in a field that works for just walking in with my resume (writing with a focus on editing, but really I'll just take loving anything that's mostly computer at this point), I don't really have any other way to do things.
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Cleretic posted:I've gotten a single interview from combing Seek, and it was for a data entry job advertised by a recruitment agency, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't count. Back when I worked for the Man, I came by all of my (four or five, IT related) jobs through Seek. That said, this was four or so years ago, and every job acquired via Seek turned out to be make-work on behalf of embezzling scum, so do with that information what you will.
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Whoah, where are all these Brisgoons coming from? I'm always down for another goonmeet around here.
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Tirade posted:The Greens ran a really solid campaign for the second senate seat in the ACT. Although much of their success was due to Simon Sheik's name recognition and ACT liberal voter distaste for Zed Seselja and how he rolled Humphries, a lot of it was due to the serious IT support the campaign had. As an example, door-knocking volunteers recorded the reception they got at each individual house from 1 to 5 which influenced whether they'd get a follow-up, and tried to tease out what issues they were most concerned about, which fed into what type of mailouts they'd receive later in the campaign. A lot of it was due to the Greens taking notes of Obama's ground game in 2012 which had a similar level of IT-enabled electioneering. Just to go back here, but the Greens really did quite poorly at this election, mostly coming off the back of their earlier significant results in (I think?) 2010. It wouldn't surprise me if the Greens were more innovative in their campaign strategy or that it won't have delayed benefits once the data has been refined or whatever, just that they did not do significantly well that election.
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