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Video: 10 reasons your job search isn’t working
- July 8th, 2009
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Feel like you’ve been searching forever?
While the latest CareerBuilder survey found that employers plan to maintain staffing levels in the next few months, there are still a lot of people looking for work. The unemployment rate inched up to 9.5% in June and there are almost 6 job seekers for every available job in the United States.
Job seekers – especially these days – need all the help they can get. Enter CareerBuilderTV, another way for us to get the best advice to you so that you can connect with the right employer as quickly as possible.
If your job search seems endless, watch this video. You may find you’re missing some valuable information.
Your dress code and appearance is probably a very good reason why people do not land jobs. It may also be the reason why at least my company does not do business with you! Imagine you are in the market for a 2 year old car or you are a business looking for a manufacturer of your widgets. You get to the car place and people are in T-shirts and slacks (casual) and the men have this unbathed, scruffy look. Lately people look like they want to be casual and could care less what other people think about their appearance as long as they feel
"comfortable"! ...tell the truth: When this unbathed, scruffy, sloppy looking person tell you they really check their used cars thoroughly because your safety is really important to them, do you really believe them?
Or if you are a business person, are you going to buy a computer from people with the same appearance? Let's take a for instance: How many of you have taken your computer for repair at Best Buy--mostly all T-shirted, scruffy looking people--and ended up having to go elsewhere to fix the problem, because without your consent, they sent it elsewhere, took 2-1/2 weeks to get your laptop back to you and then you still had to take it to Circuit City or Comp USA or Staples or Office Depot or elsewhere. When people do not care about their own appearance, do you think they care about doing their job well? How many times have you found out of date items, rotting fruits or vegetables at your supermarket, then wondered if the meat, chicken or worse, fish is properly cared for? Then you see this sloppy person behind the counter or working in the produce department! Doesn't that give you an answer? This person could care less about how he/she looks, do you think he/she cares about the store's product? This person is usually a clock watcher. All this person wants is to finish the day and get a paycheck. Why? Because these are the people who are usually laggards in class at school, who do not care about getting "A's" or getting a job well done! Yes, they will end up saying "with or without french fries" or in another menial job the rest of their lives but they are too lazy to do anything else...yet, they are the first ones to demand job benefits, expect the government to give them health care for free, expect people who have worked hard all their lives to pay more in taxes so they can go on welfare if they get laid off or fired. Personally and all of the people I know, will not hire or do business with someone who looks like a slob, has a scruffy look. And for those of you who think the scruffy look is sexy, think of all the stuff running down anyone's nose into their mustache with seasonal allergies, colds, other bacteria everywhere and they touch themselves there because it itches as the stuff goes into the hair--then these guys want to shake your hand! I don't! Worse yet, if you are a woman would you kiss a guy with facial hair after you think/visualize this? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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Yes, blame the victim.
Only women are hygenic, men are dirty their hair infested with germs while women have clean hair.. Wow! Why don't we replace the word scruffy with Jew or Black male and see how the editorial reads.
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