I posted this earlier but got no response.
When companies expect references but they are not given, I wonder why I bother to work so hard. It's a two way street here. If they do not want to give a reference, they should not expect them.
Yet they expect 110% all day, every day. Notice how hard people in stores work? For minimum wage, poverty-level wages, they are working harder and harder and this raises the standards of what employers expect.
I know that you need to bust your as$ to keep your job but if that employer is not even going to take the time, all of 2 minutes, to reply to a phone call asking for a reference, then really, you're working all in vain.
And we all know that jobs are so short-lived now and firing happens on a whim, with many organizations being hire and fire joints. What is one to do like me who has a resumé that looks like she cannot hold down a job? I have been questioned by many interviewers and I know I am getting screened out all the time because all of my employment has been less than one year. I have put a disclaimer or statement on my resumé and will in every cover letter stating something to the effect of "due to the market downturn and with retail being based on budgets, my jobs have been contractual or short term in nature".
This is the future of work. But yet it makes me look bad as an applicant having so many jobs that my resumé is almost three pages.
Now I know that the employer is afraid of being sued by another employer but can't we throw this policy out? People need more help than ever to land that next job and take their careers to the next level.
I am so frustrated by all of this. Work hard, all day every day and get no thanks. What really is the point other than to keep yourself from getting fired?
Any advice?
When companies expect references but they are not given, I wonder why I bother to work so hard. It's a two way street here. If they do not want to give a reference, they should not expect them.
Yet they expect 110% all day, every day. Notice how hard people in stores work? For minimum wage, poverty-level wages, they are working harder and harder and this raises the standards of what employers expect.
I know that you need to bust your as$ to keep your job but if that employer is not even going to take the time, all of 2 minutes, to reply to a phone call asking for a reference, then really, you're working all in vain.
And we all know that jobs are so short-lived now and firing happens on a whim, with many organizations being hire and fire joints. What is one to do like me who has a resumé that looks like she cannot hold down a job? I have been questioned by many interviewers and I know I am getting screened out all the time because all of my employment has been less than one year. I have put a disclaimer or statement on my resumé and will in every cover letter stating something to the effect of "due to the market downturn and with retail being based on budgets, my jobs have been contractual or short term in nature".
This is the future of work. But yet it makes me look bad as an applicant having so many jobs that my resumé is almost three pages.
Now I know that the employer is afraid of being sued by another employer but can't we throw this policy out? People need more help than ever to land that next job and take their careers to the next level.
I am so frustrated by all of this. Work hard, all day every day and get no thanks. What really is the point other than to keep yourself from getting fired?
Any advice?