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Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, to find a job I go...
Dec. 21st, 2005 03:51 amTo think that I wanted to be in bed three hours ago.
Well, I just caught up on my Workopolis job alerts that had been piling up in my Inbox, and sent off applications for 10 positions. I only screwed up one cover letter - I copied a paragraph from another letter which said that I had uploaded my resume to their company's database, when in fact I had attached it as a Word document. Oops. :(
I have two more that I'm leaving until tomorrow because I want to call the companies and find out how I should address my cover letters. Darn people who give email addresses which are firstinitiallastname@company.com, with no mention anywhere else in the ad of what the first initial actually stands for, so I don't know whether to write "Dear Mr. So-and-So" or "Dear Ms. So-and-So."
They do make it harder than they have to, don't they?
But still, 10 job applications is more than I've sent off in a while.
That doesn't mean I won't still go back to school and upgrade my skills if I don't get one of them. Though the headhunter who called me the other day seemed to think that was a bad idea, given the competition out there and the fact that people with my skill set are retiring in droves. (What is a drove, anyway? I'd rather retire in Florida, myself...)
Well, I just caught up on my Workopolis job alerts that had been piling up in my Inbox, and sent off applications for 10 positions. I only screwed up one cover letter - I copied a paragraph from another letter which said that I had uploaded my resume to their company's database, when in fact I had attached it as a Word document. Oops. :(
I have two more that I'm leaving until tomorrow because I want to call the companies and find out how I should address my cover letters. Darn people who give email addresses which are firstinitiallastname@company.com, with no mention anywhere else in the ad of what the first initial actually stands for, so I don't know whether to write "Dear Mr. So-and-So" or "Dear Ms. So-and-So."
They do make it harder than they have to, don't they?
But still, 10 job applications is more than I've sent off in a while.
That doesn't mean I won't still go back to school and upgrade my skills if I don't get one of them. Though the headhunter who called me the other day seemed to think that was a bad idea, given the competition out there and the fact that people with my skill set are retiring in droves. (What is a drove, anyway? I'd rather retire in Florida, myself...)
