Getting Jobs

[PreciousDove]

Do you believe it's easier to get a job today then will say at least 18 years ago? Does having modern technology like tablets, cell phones, computers and articles in newspapers and magazines etc make it easier to get jobs?

 

[Pepper]

What source do you get all your questions from?

 

[PreciousDove]

What source do you get all your questions from?

Which sources are you referring? For Jobs or all my posts?

 

[Pepper]

Which sources are you referring? For Jobs or all my posts?

All.

 

[PreciousDove]

All.

Doing Google searches for jobs and my brain for the other. I like thinking.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Easier for who?

I wouldn’t know where to start looking for a professional position in this new world.

For most young folks the modern methods are probably all that they’ve ever known.

 

[jujube]

I was lucky that the last five jobs I had "fell in my lap". I followed a boss around as she went to new companies for the first three. When she left the area, I was recruited by another former boss to his company. When that company was sold and he left, I stayed on in my job.

Right after I retired, I was called by boss #2 to come to work with him in the company he had just started. Nope. I knew better.

I haven't had to do a resume for 30 years. It's just been "Y'all just c'mon over on Monday and set a spell at th' desk!"

My "side hustle" for a couple of years was helping a friend with her side hustle.

 

[Alligatorob]

Do you believe it's easier to get a job today then will say at least 18 years ago?

Absolutely.

Does having modern technology like tablets, cell phones, computers and articles in newspapers and magazines etc make it easier to get jobs?

Only to the extent they contribute to the economy. Without a strong economy jobs will be harder to find, and all the "modern technology like tablets, cell phones, computers" won't help... The underlying laws of economics have not changed.

 

[Tish]

Easier.

 

[Nathan]

Do you believe it's easier to get a job today then will say at least 18 years ago? Does having modern technology like tablets, cell phones, computers and articles in newspapers and magazines etc make it easier to get jobs?

Yes, vastly more tools and resources available to job hunting than 18 years ago.

 

[hawkdon]

I was in Cincy once, out of work and low on money, so I took
jobs thru labor centers...while setting waiting to be called I took
a look at the job part of the paper, saw one that wanted a clerk
warehouse person at a paint business, gave a phone num to call.....so I took the big, fat, yellow pages and started searching...took awhile but I found the number and address...
So I took off walking to the paint store, wasn't too far away,
walked in, told guy I was applying, he asked if I had app't, I said no, he sez then how u know about us.....told him how I found out about them, and was hired on the spot!!! they
liked my initiative......

 

[Murrmurr]

Only to the extent they contribute to the economy. Without a strong economy jobs will be harder to find, and all the "modern technology like tablets, cell phones, computers" won't help... The underlying laws of economics have not changed.

Some businesses only advertise job openings online, and most of them post the job applications as well. Apparently, it's cheaper than publishing newspaper ads and printing out reams of applications.