The Career Doctor responds: Wow. You are certainly doing a lot of different job-hunting activities, but I think one of the things you are really missing is a job-hunting strategy. You need a coordinated effort to get a job, not just a lot of activity. So, if you will let me, here are my suggestions for the next steps you should take to land that next job. First, take a deep breath and relax. Stress and frustration even when we are doing our best to cover it shines like a big red blinking light that turns away employers. You need to exude confidence and a positive attitude. Take a look at this article from my partner, Ten Questions to Ask Yourself if You Still Havent Found a Job. Second, what kind of job are you looking for? What have you done previously and gotten bored with? What skill sets do you offer potential employers? Three jobs in the past five years is not a bad thing not in todays job market unless its because you have a short-term mentality. If these jobs show some progress and continued responsibility and growth, youre in good shape. If they do not, you may want to experiment with a chrono-functional rather than chronological resume. Third, job-hunting on the Net should really only be a small part of your job search and so should chasing want ads. Where you should be spending the bulk of your time is identifying employer prospects and designing a direct-mail and networking plan to help you land a job in one of the companies. How much networking are you doing with your former coworkers and other professionals in your field? Read my article, Networking Your Way to a New Job. Fourth, remember that looking for a job is full-time work and there is no set timetable for how long it will take to find a new position but first develop your strategy, and I truly believe you will see your luck change for the better. I wish you the best.
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My most recent experience with recruiting agencies was not positive. I had traveled some distance to meet with a recruiting agent because I thought she could offer me a job that she had advertised on the internet. Instead, she told me that the job that I wanted was not for me and that she had chosen another opportunity for which I could apply. This other offered a much lower salary and less benefits. The recruiting agency also said that they would take 50% of my first months salary and that I would have to give them another 50% of my salary should I decide to renew my contract with the school one year later. I wanted to laugh in their faces but I politely declined and left the agency feeling angry and frustrated.
I am not alone in my frustration; there are thousands of teachers in China who have had negative experiences with recruiting agencies. The fact is, many of these agencies are only in the English Business to make money and are more than willing to stretch the truth if it means a name being placed on a contract. I have heard from many teachers who felt betrayed after finding that the salary and benefits that they had been promised by the agency were simply not offered by the school. So should recruiting agencies be avoided like the plague? Can they be of any use at all? This is a question that I often receive when speaking with potential teachers to China.
The answer is yes to both of these questions. Using a recruiting agency is often unnecessary; it is always better to communicate directly with a school if at all possible. Many larger schools have their own full time recruiters who are probably much more knowledgeable on the ins and outs of the school than a outside recruiting agency would be. However, during my time in China, I have encountered a few outside recruiters who were extremely helpful and did seem to care about me as a foreign teacher in China. So how can you tell which agencies and recruiters are worth working with?
The first question to ask a recruiting agency is whether or not you will be charged for their services. If the answer to this question is yes, then I suggest that you say goodbye and hang up the phone. You should never have to pay to find a job in China. A recruiting agency that is above board should be charging the schools for its services, not the job seekers. Many recruiting agencies that charge teachers money are going to say whatever they think the foreign teacher wants to hear to get a contract signed. Most often you will be to this agency until you decide to leave the school. Recruiting agencies that charge schools money are more likely to be honest with a prospective teacher because the school may not pay them until the teacher has spent a few weeks getting a feel for the school.
The second question that you need to ask a recruiting agency is whether or not they will provide you with the name of the school and allow you to make direct contact with a member of the staff. Some recruiters have set up phone interviews between myself and the principal of the school and asked me to let them know how it goes. In this way, I have been able to confirm with the school the information that the recruiter provided for me. You should be suspicious of any recruiting agency that will not allow you to contact a school directly. These are the types of agencies that will place you in a bad situation that can be hard to escape from.
One possible exception to what I have written in the last paragraph can me made for recruiters from the Chinas Foreign Expert Bureau. Schools in China can pay the Chinese government an exorbitant amount of money to help them find English teachers from abroad. All of the details for my first job in China were taken care of by a recruiter in the Foreign Expert Bureau who acted as the middle man between myself and the school for which I wished to work. When I arrived at my school, I realized that I had never actually come into direct contact with the principal. However, the Foreign Experts Bureau did provide for me the name of the school beforehand along with the website so I could have made contact with the school had I wished to.
In closing, I would again urge you to avoid using recruiting agencies if at all possible. Try to make contact with the school directly. If you feel compelled to deal with a recruiting agency, it is important to ask them exactly who will be paying for their services. Dont wait to ask these questions until you meet the recruiter. Ask them beforehand so that you will not make a wasted trip. Another reliable way to find out information about a particular recruiting agency or individual recruiter is to use a search engine. Simply input the name into the search field and press submit. You can read what others are saying about recruiting agencies and make your own decision based on the agencys reputation.
Dont forget to check out our China Recruiting Agency Alert Page for information about agencies that you may want to avoid. Of course, you can always share your experiences with us by leaving us a comment below.
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I am not alone in my frustration; there are thousands of teachers in China who have had negative experiences with recruiting agencies. The fact is, many of these agencies are only in the English Business to make money and are more than willing to stretch the truth if it means a name being placed on a contract. I have heard from many teachers who felt betrayed after finding that the salary and benefits that they had been promised by the agency were simply not offered by the school. So should recruiting agencies be avoided like the plague? Can they be of any use at all? This is a question that I often receive when speaking with potential teachers to China.
The answer is yes to both of these questions. Using a recruiting agency is often unnecessary; it is always better to communicate directly with a school if at all possible. Many larger schools have their own full time recruiters who are probably much more knowledgeable on the ins and outs of the school than a outside recruiting agency would be. However, during my time in China, I have encountered a few outside recruiters who were extremely helpful and did seem to care about me as a foreign teacher in China. So how can you tell which agencies and recruiters are worth working with?
The first question to ask a recruiting agency is whether or not you will be charged for their services. If the answer to this question is yes, then I suggest that you say goodbye and hang up the phone. You should never have to pay to find a job in China. A recruiting agency that is above board should be charging the schools for its services, not the job seekers. Many recruiting agencies that charge teachers money are going to say whatever they think the foreign teacher wants to hear to get a contract signed. Most often you will be to this agency until you decide to leave the school. Recruiting agencies that charge schools money are more likely to be honest with a prospective teacher because the school may not pay them until the teacher has spent a few weeks getting a feel for the school.
The second question that you need to ask a recruiting agency is whether or not they will provide you with the name of the school and allow you to make direct contact with a member of the staff. Some recruiters have set up phone interviews between myself and the principal of the school and asked me to let them know how it goes. In this way, I have been able to confirm with the school the information that the recruiter provided for me. You should be suspicious of any recruiting agency that will not allow you to contact a school directly. These are the types of agencies that will place you in a bad situation that can be hard to escape from.
One possible exception to what I have written in the last paragraph can me made for recruiters from the Chinas Foreign Expert Bureau. Schools in China can pay the Chinese government an exorbitant amount of money to help them find English teachers from abroad. All of the details for my first job in China were taken care of by a recruiter in the Foreign Expert Bureau who acted as the middle man between myself and the school for which I wished to work. When I arrived at my school, I realized that I had never actually come into direct contact with the principal. However, the Foreign Experts Bureau did provide for me the name of the school beforehand along with the website so I could have made contact with the school had I wished to.
In closing, I would again urge you to avoid using recruiting agencies if at all possible. Try to make contact with the school directly. If you feel compelled to deal with a recruiting agency, it is important to ask them exactly who will be paying for their services. Dont wait to ask these questions until you meet the recruiter. Ask them beforehand so that you will not make a wasted trip. Another reliable way to find out information about a particular recruiting agency or individual recruiter is to use a search engine. Simply input the name into the search field and press submit. You can read what others are saying about recruiting agencies and make your own decision based on the agencys reputation.
Dont forget to check out our China Recruiting Agency Alert Page for information about agencies that you may want to avoid. Of course, you can always share your experiences with us by leaving us a comment below.
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Things are Not Good right now. We have a fifty dollar check and a negative 16 dollar bank account to our name. We need my blood pressure medicine and gas.
I/we have freelance work (what might as well be considered a part time job, which makes about $500 dollars a month, which goes to rent). Circumstances prevent me from working outside the home, but I'm perfectly willing to take on more freelance/homework - if I can find any. Which so far is a no go. Unemployment from the previous job ran out during his schooling period. We lived off of our tax refund for a while but that money's run out, and the economic stimulus check won't be here for another month or so.
My husband Aus was working at the same job for seven years, but back injuries due to a car accident rendered him unable to do that job and he lost it. Vocational rehab sent him to school, and after seven months, he is now a Microsoft certified database administrator.
The problem? He can't find a job, in his field, or any other computer-related or receptionist type field, at all. We've tried online job services - Dice, Monster, etc. and we've tried the old fashioned method of buying the paper and circling the jobs and applying for those. We've gone down to the unemployment office and searched their job listings. We've faxed resumes, emailed applications, and made phone calls. Temp agencies say there are no jobs available in our area that match his qualifications.
Out of the countless jobs he's applied for.. he's only received three responses. One saying the applications won't be reviewed until end of May and the job won't start until June; one saying that he was under-educated (bachelors degree was what they were looking for); one saying that he had insufficient experience in his field (how do you get that if someone won't hire you?).
This will make the third week of the job search. Are we just expecting things to move too quickly? Is there some secret to job searching we're missing? Help!
Any tips that will help with our situation, either with the job search or finding additional freelance work, or living on a very,very limited income are very much appreciated. NO TROLLING. I'm stressed out enough as it is, thanks.
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I/we have freelance work (what might as well be considered a part time job, which makes about $500 dollars a month, which goes to rent). Circumstances prevent me from working outside the home, but I'm perfectly willing to take on more freelance/homework - if I can find any. Which so far is a no go. Unemployment from the previous job ran out during his schooling period. We lived off of our tax refund for a while but that money's run out, and the economic stimulus check won't be here for another month or so.
My husband Aus was working at the same job for seven years, but back injuries due to a car accident rendered him unable to do that job and he lost it. Vocational rehab sent him to school, and after seven months, he is now a Microsoft certified database administrator.
The problem? He can't find a job, in his field, or any other computer-related or receptionist type field, at all. We've tried online job services - Dice, Monster, etc. and we've tried the old fashioned method of buying the paper and circling the jobs and applying for those. We've gone down to the unemployment office and searched their job listings. We've faxed resumes, emailed applications, and made phone calls. Temp agencies say there are no jobs available in our area that match his qualifications.
Out of the countless jobs he's applied for.. he's only received three responses. One saying the applications won't be reviewed until end of May and the job won't start until June; one saying that he was under-educated (bachelors degree was what they were looking for); one saying that he had insufficient experience in his field (how do you get that if someone won't hire you?).
This will make the third week of the job search. Are we just expecting things to move too quickly? Is there some secret to job searching we're missing? Help!
Any tips that will help with our situation, either with the job search or finding additional freelance work, or living on a very,very limited income are very much appreciated. NO TROLLING. I'm stressed out enough as it is, thanks.
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: Bulwer-Lytton? Well, I think his failed tenure as Colonial Secretary in Lord Derby's second government (1858-1859) would probably be the most notable event of his parliamentary career, though to be fair it was Disraeli's fault for getting him the post in the first place. I don't know why they made him a baron, but I suppose since he was already a baronet they thought there'd be no harm in it (that, or they were trying to get him out of the Commons).
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