{"id":1553,"date":"2011-06-15T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:31:22","slug":"job-hunting-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"A Little Job Hunting Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve been job hunting non-stop for the past almost 2 years with only a handful of nibbles and one interview. It can get pretty disheartening with all that passive rejection. Only 3 of the applications sent actual rejection letters\/emails. 3. Out of I don&#8217;t even know how many.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I cracked open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theselectgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Select Group<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s monthly broadcast\/ e-newsletter and found a bit of interview humor. It&#8217;s always good to laugh, especially at yourself, in these situations. Even though most of the time I just want to cry at the lack of real responses and interviews.<\/p>\n<p>I applied to another job last night. I&#8217;m a little more hopeful as I have a friend that works there and used her personal referral page to apply.\u00a0 Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Eager Beginnings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A recent college graduate interviewed for an entry-level developer position with a top technology company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Towards  the end of the interview, the hiring manager said, \u201cIf we move forward,  the next step is to extend an offer. Have you thought about your target  starting salary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The  recent grad eagerly replied, \u201cBased on my GPA and skill set, I believe  $130,000 is a reasonable starting point.\u201d\u00a0 He paused and added, \u201cOf  course, that depends on your company\u2019s benefits package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The  hiring manager leaned back in his chair and said, \u201cOur benefits consist  of 6 weeks paid vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental for  your entire family, 100% matching for your 401k contributions\u2026 and you  get use of the company jet whenever you need it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The grad leaped out of his chair and exclaimed, \u201cWow! That is incredible. Are you kidding me? I never\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The hiring manager interrupted him and said, \u201cSettle down. Of course I am kidding with you\u2026but you started it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2013Tom Romano, TSG\u2019s resident humorist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;ve been job hunting non-stop for the past almost 2 years with only a handful of nibbles and one interview. It can get pretty disheartening with all that passive rejection. Only 3 of the applications sent actual rejection letters\/emails. 3. Out of I don&#8217;t even know how many. This afternoon, I cracked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-job-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}