#job searching is ass

[beatheprincess]

I've been age dreaming alot lately and been so happyyy but I hate stoopid adult life stressors >.< waaaa

[eruptedinlight]

Saru: A Flat Ass Icon

[why-the-heck-not]

I can’t get over the feeling that I’m writing some date search thing when I’m writing job applications. ”I’m a 24 year old looking for an interesting and fulfilling job for the summer” might as well be ”hot single woman in ur area looking for a short passionate summer fling” like it sounds exactly the same

[kissingagrumpygiant]

Guess who's newly employed !!!

[elekdragon]

I had a job candidate ask if there was anything they could do to improve their application at the end of an interview. One major thing anyone can do when applying for an academic librarian position is to address how you meet every single qualification listed in the job ad.

We have to use rubrics of different kinds to rate candidates, and the more equitable-focused searches try to remove as much possible bias from the search by focusing on data and facts.

You go through and lay out for us that you meet all qualifications, even if you just state "I am [a fast learner/adept with Word/experienced with assessment and pedagogy/a person who loves event planning]" without examples, you will rate higher than someone who doesn't explicitly state that. Give an example, and you rate even higher.

If we have to infer things from your cv and cover letter, then you will rate lower. We are doing less interpreting and more "Does it explicitly state x?" these days, so being blunt is good. We have to justify every decision and every "grade" so we're less likely to interprete things.

You were a server in a restaurant for 6 months? You are adept at handling multiple conflicting priorities in a fast-paced, user-centered environment! You can do more with less! You can answer random questions with a smile! You've dealt with difficult patrons and ended every interaction positively! You know when to refer an issue up the chain of command! There are soooooooo many ways you can connect a non-library job to library work! Please do so!!

So my best advice is go through the job ad, state in your cover letter how you meet every required and preferred quality even the slightest. We want to hire you! We really do! Make it easy on us!

My qualifications: 20 years of academic library search committee experience.

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

I wanna write something that's not just me repeating and hyping up the same shit in my CV and resume. What're we thinking? (This may or may not sway me)

I'm ripping out the taglist for this feel free to ignore it.

Tag list: @outpost51 @nanashi23 @winterandwords @jezifster2 @kk7-rbs @aether-wasteland-s @dumbthunder @manathen @the-void-writes @livums @vacantgodling (Let me know if you want to be added or removed from the taglist!) 

[tangomagnolija]

do people use linkedin, like for real

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

You guyyssssss the bus was being the bus and didn’t come. Everyone was waiting for it then people gave up and started leaving 😭 until it was only me and this girl. After a while she came up to me and asked if I wanted a ride home bcuz she always sees me here waiting for this bus. I said yeah n omg she was so nice. She called her bf and gave me a ride faith restored in humanity 🥺 im home safe n sound

[petrow1tch]

rusia: tortures and kills our writers, poets, artists, buries them in mass graves right this moment

our ministry of "education, science and innovations": hey what if we made a site where people can use ai to generate fairy tales for kids with ai generated illustrations, so that we don't have to pay anyone anything and in return produce heaps of barely coherent letter combinations

[mrs-mikko-rantanen]

Thinking about my dusty ol' dnd girl 💛💚💜

[tamagotchikgs]

everything is back on its normal course, i always get shift as the months turn colder from bingeing 2 restricting and more anxious and more paranoid due 2 that except this time i have the weight of knowing i Was Better anxiety-wise even just a little bit. i wonder why i feel so bad and then i remember i went from going to therapy every single week & then the connections program everyday n getting paid and being given Hope for a future to losing it all and going right back to being fully isolated irl

[downfallofi]

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[mycological-mariner]

Pulling up pictures and paintings of fishwives for drawing references and these women just look so incredibly badass. Just, walking around all day with a giant basket attached to their heads, the exposed forearms, the bright coloured shawls and black bonnets, beautiful in a rugged and sea-worn kind of way.

[advisorsage]

The universe loves me

[strike-another-match]

not my managers telling me to please consider the immense man pain of our CTO who sexually harrassed me for months with zero consequences when i spoke up about the way that being forced to work together with him again really frankly sucks severely for me. i should shut up about my mental health and financial security collapsing because it makes him sad to think he hurt someone and 1 droplet of man pain is more important than everything i have endured at his hands lmao but what else is new

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

I'm realizing (thanks @vacantgodling) I haven't made like a full spell out thing on everyone's tattoos (except for the chat I was having with vacant) XD I'm gonna attempt to rectify that.