Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings

Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings I hope I dont hurt anyones feelings with this post. But I gotta get it off my chest. Following up from yesterdays post about the conflict of interest of the state of malimornia (that is we are here to help you but we wont give you all the tools you need, and should have access to, because we might be helping other people while we help you (um, have you ever heard of win-win?) note this might sound like a rant about companies not embracing JibberJobber, but read it to the end there is a smell test for all job seekers I had an experience with XYZ Staffing Company a couple of months ago that. well, was pretty lame. So I went in to talk with a branch manager about JibberJobber, and ask how he could let the job seekers that come through his office know about it and use it. He quickly agreed that it was very very cool, very different, and obviously useful. And then he said Im sorry, were not going to be able to let our job seekers know about this. Thats ok, I thought, because there was probably some policy that prevented outside stuff into their little system. I can understand that, and it is even more valid than a government entity saying no But then he went on to explain something that made me sick. He said we dont want our job seekers to know about JibberJobber because then they might not need us. We want them to be dependent on us for all of their job changes. If we let them know about JibberJobber, and they used it, and the increased their network then they wont need us after long. True story! I couldnt make this up. But it infuriated me because what he was saying was we want to keep our candidates dumbed down. we dont care about their long-term survival, as long as they keep making money for us blah blah blah! were too dumb to realize that if we help people out, maybe theyll refer more people to us! Can you believe it? Ok, so here is the smell test that I promised up above. IF you find someone that wants to help you and they only promote information that they want to sell you, or keeps you in their system forever, walk away. Keep your eyes wide open and realize that there are other sources of information. Sorry if this offends any professionals out there, but get over it. Im not advocating the staffing agency Im advocating the poor dude that is JOBLESS. Nowadays it is pretty easy to find information on the Internet. If you want to keep up with some of the hottest/newest technologies for job seekers I recommend subscribing to http://www.secretsofthejobhunt.blogspot.com (on the top right there is a box to get his feed in your e-mail). CM Russell literally wrote the book on a job search, and keeps very current information on his blog for job seekers. He also runs other job search websites including boards, info aggregators, etc. I recommend this to anyone in a job search. Also, for a quick search on various job-related issues you can go to http://www.Chimby.com this is like the Google for Job Searching. It allows you to search on phrases found on job search sites, so you shouldnt find any (or much) non-related info. Whew. Ive been holding that in for way too long ?? PS I think staffing agencies are great. If I knew Id be out of work for 6 months I would have gone to a staffing agency right away, taken a contract job, and likely would have gotten on full-time. If nothing else it would have helped me expand my network. Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings I hope I dont hurt anyones feelings with this post. But I gotta get it off my chest. Following up from yesterdays post about the conflict of interest of the state of malimornia (that is we are here to help you but we wont give you all the tools you need, and should have access to, because we might be helping other people while we help you (um, have you ever heard of win-win?) note this might sound like a rant about companies not embracing JibberJobber, but read it to the end there is a smell test for all job seekers I had an experience with XYZ Staffing Company a couple of months ago that. well, was pretty lame. So I went in to talk with a branch manager about JibberJobber, and ask how he could let the job seekers that come through his office know about it and use it. He quickly agreed that it was very very cool, very different, and obviously useful. And then he said Im sorry, were not going to be able to let our job seekers know about this. Thats ok, I thought, because there was probably some policy that prevented outside stuff into their little system. I can understand that, and it is even more valid than a government entity saying no But then he went on to explain something that made me sick. He said we dont want our job seekers to know about JibberJobber because then they might not need us. We want them to be dependent on us for all of their job changes. If we let them know about JibberJobber, and they used it, and the increased their network then they wont need us after long. True story! I couldnt make this up. But it infuriated me because what he was saying was we want to keep our candidates dumbed down. we dont care about their long-term survival, as long as they keep making money for us blah blah blah! were too dumb to realize that if we help people out, maybe theyll refer more people to us! Can you believe it? Ok, so here is the smell test that I promised up above. IF you find someone that wants to help you and they only promote information that they want to sell you, or keeps you in their system forever, walk away. Keep your eyes wide open and realize that there are other sources of information. Sorry if this offends any professionals out there, but get over it. Im not advocating the staffing agency Im advocating the poor dude that is JOBLESS. Nowadays it is pretty easy to find information on the Internet. If you want to keep up with some of the hottest/newest technologies for job seekers I recommend subscribing to http://www.secretsofthejobhunt.blogspot.com (on the top right there is a box to get his feed in your e-mail). CM Russell literally wrote the book on a job search, and keeps very current information on his blog for job seekers. He also runs other job search websites including boards, info aggregators, etc. I recommend this to anyone in a job search. Also, for a quick search on various job-related issues you can go to http://www.Chimby.com this is like the Google for Job Searching. It allows you to search on phrases found on job search sites, so you shouldnt find any (or much) non-related info. Whew. Ive been holding that in for way too long ?? PS I think staffing agencies are great. If I knew Id be out of work for 6 months I would have gone to a staffing agency right away, taken a contract job, and likely would have gotten on full-time. If nothing else it would have helped me expand my network. Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings I hope I dont hurt anyones feelings with this post. But I gotta get it off my chest. Following up from yesterdays post about the conflict of interest of the state of malimornia (that is we are here to help you but we wont give you all the tools you need, and should have access to, because we might be helping other people while we help you (um, have you ever heard of win-win?) note this might sound like a rant about companies not embracing JibberJobber, but read it to the end there is a smell test for all job seekers I had an experience with XYZ Staffing Company a couple of months ago that. well, was pretty lame. So I went in to talk with a branch manager about JibberJobber, and ask how he could let the job seekers that come through his office know about it and use it. He quickly agreed that it was very very cool, very different, and obviously useful. And then he said Im sorry, were not going to be able to let our job seekers know about this. Thats ok, I thought, because there was probably some policy that prevented outside stuff into their little system. I can understand that, and it is even more valid than a government entity saying no But then he went on to explain something that made me sick. He said we dont want our job seekers to know about JibberJobber because then they might not need us. We want them to be dependent on us for all of their job changes. If we let them know about JibberJobber, and they used it, and the increased their network then they wont need us after long. True story! I couldnt make this up. But it infuriated me because what he was saying was we want to keep our candidates dumbed down. we dont care about their long-term survival, as long as they keep making money for us blah blah blah! were too dumb to realize that if we help people out, maybe theyll refer more people to us! Can you believe it? Ok, so here is the smell test that I promised up above. IF you find someone that wants to help you and they only promote information that they want to sell you, or keeps you in their system forever, walk away. Keep your eyes wide open and realize that there are other sources of information. Sorry if this offends any professionals out there, but get over it. Im not advocating the staffing agency Im advocating the poor dude that is JOBLESS. Nowadays it is pretty easy to find information on the Internet. If you want to keep up with some of the hottest/newest technologies for job seekers I recommend subscribing to http://www.secretsofthejobhunt.blogspot.com (on the top right there is a box to get his feed in your e-mail). CM Russell literally wrote the book on a job search, and keeps very current information on his blog for job seekers. He also runs other job search websites including boards, info aggregators, etc. I recommend this to anyone in a job search. Also, for a quick search on various job-related issues you can go to http://www.Chimby.com this is like the Google for Job Searching. It allows you to search on phrases found on job search sites, so you shouldnt find any (or much) non-related info. Whew. Ive been holding that in for way too long ?? PS I think staffing agencies are great. If I knew Id be out of work for 6 months I would have gone to a staffing agency right away, taken a contract job, and likely would have gotten on full-time. If nothing else it would have helped me expand my network.