Mondays are always a tough day for me, but today was especially rough. Not feeling so well, but pulled it together and made it to class and got some work done. I applied for a job in the career center for next semester, so keep your fingers crossed for that! Are Mondays as tough for everyone, or just me? (and Katie Moore)
I’m going to upload my CV/resume in English & Spanish here one of these days. Hopefully it will get passed along to someone in Chile who will see a good use for me. I also have to fill out my LinkedIn page. I made it, but I haven’t personalized it at all yet.
What do you think? Do all of those job hunting, social networking, and other websites actually help people get jobs? It’s something we’re supposed to be doing today, but I haven’t heard of anyone getting a job out of it yet. I still think that nothing will replace live human interaction, but I think it’s a good tool as well.
Example: If you meet someone and talk about career options at a job expo, happy hour, social event, coffee shop, etc. then you add them on LinkedIn or something like that, then they have your CV on hand to pass around to someone they know, so on and so forth. But it definitely can’t come soley from the internet.
Anyways, that’s all I really have going on. I’ve started planning for my Chile trip (32 days away!) and it’s getting so exciting. We’re starting to make NYE plans and a beach trip to Maitencillo :) Life is good, as long as I get through finals in one piece and don’t get sick.
Futher information/Opinions: Check out this NY Times blog about the dilemma of social networking sites: http://tinyurl.com/ylpqug5
Nini, don’t you worry about a thing! You are so talented, a hard-worker, and most important — passionate about the things you believe in. You’ll go very far, whether you end up using LinkedIn or not
Remember you’ll always have a strong recommendation letter from me!
Miss you dearly, but glad you’re doing so well,
Josef
That system would never work in Chile for finding a job. Here it’s all who you know and how well you know them. If you are someone’s brother-in-law it’s like your chances of getting that job go up exponentially and do not even depend so much on your qualifications.
Maybe I should clarify that I’m talking about that poll you have at the end and not trying to sound at all snarky.
Haha no worries- not snarky at all! I was looking for a range of responses, and I think that what you said in the 1st comment holds true globally, not just for Chile! From my life observations it seems like MOST people get their decent jobs because somebody knows somebody, hence the the survey..wanted to see if people agree or not!