"Get on the Starting Line and Be Ready to Go...."
Since about March 2006 I have been early retired from my first career in the Telephone Industry after working for almost thirty (30) years in a multiplicity of departments, in many capacities, working next to older people that had far less education than myself, some of which told me stories of getting hired at a time when they could just walk up to a work crew on the street that was maybe laying down underground cable or putting up poles for aerial cable and request a job from the foreman that was in charge of the crew. If the foreman thought you could do the job he would hire you on the spot, then the employment paperwork would be done at a later time. This was a time when for the most part the only thing that was important was that you could do the job, and/or sometimes..if your brother, sister, or other relative worked for the company already. Nepotism was not always against federal and state laws then. As time passed and the years moved on the requirements changed and the demands increased in order to be selected for a good paying entry level position in the same industry. You now had to take and pass a test that you never got to see the results of. You had to have some kind of education, a high school diploma, some trade school training, or even in some cases some formal college education to be considered. Today, these past requirements are not enough mainly because of the unemployment levels that exist today that allows employers to demand the best educated workers with college degrees from accredited Universities in America, some with advanced Graduate Level education that would not have been required in a full employment USA in the past for the same level or position being filled. Employers can pick flexible potential qualified employees and choose who they want to work for them. Those with the ability to do what is demanded of them to do (never mind what your major was/is in college) are now..part of the selected few. If the potential employee wants the job and has the potential to succeed at the job and is deserving of the valuable salary/pay and benefits to be receive for your sowing, then most of the time it is easy for the potential employee to accept the requested requirements for working at that entity especially with all the competition in the current employment state. In times past, the previous simple job requirements that I was told about when I was a very young Telephone Industry worker are long gone in the current 2010 economy. You have to be ready, especially the younger new potential employees. Potentials must keep their minds sharp, their records clean, they should research the entities they may have to interview for, they should always practice a healthy lifestyle that includes a clean body, and now is the time to clear all the skeletons that could hold you back. You must know and understand that some employers research some of the social websites for your names, connections, and character flaws that could give them the reason(s) to trash your application. The potential employee must reflect a clean character that is better than the competition. Nothing..should slow you down not even that funny email address. You must be ready in all areas now! Will you be ready to start?
--Copyright Claude Evans 314-475-0744. 05/25/2010 ce0604@yahoo.com.
Since about March 2006 I have been early retired from my first career in the Telephone Industry after working for almost thirty (30) years in a multiplicity of departments, in many capacities, working next to older people that had far less education than myself, some of which told me stories of getting hired at a time when they could just walk up to a work crew on the street that was maybe laying down underground cable or putting up poles for aerial cable and request a job from the foreman that was in charge of the crew. If the foreman thought you could do the job he would hire you on the spot, then the employment paperwork would be done at a later time. This was a time when for the most part the only thing that was important was that you could do the job, and/or sometimes..if your brother, sister, or other relative worked for the company already. Nepotism was not always against federal and state laws then. As time passed and the years moved on the requirements changed and the demands increased in order to be selected for a good paying entry level position in the same industry. You now had to take and pass a test that you never got to see the results of. You had to have some kind of education, a high school diploma, some trade school training, or even in some cases some formal college education to be considered. Today, these past requirements are not enough mainly because of the unemployment levels that exist today that allows employers to demand the best educated workers with college degrees from accredited Universities in America, some with advanced Graduate Level education that would not have been required in a full employment USA in the past for the same level or position being filled. Employers can pick flexible potential qualified employees and choose who they want to work for them. Those with the ability to do what is demanded of them to do (never mind what your major was/is in college) are now..part of the selected few. If the potential employee wants the job and has the potential to succeed at the job and is deserving of the valuable salary/pay and benefits to be receive for your sowing, then most of the time it is easy for the potential employee to accept the requested requirements for working at that entity especially with all the competition in the current employment state. In times past, the previous simple job requirements that I was told about when I was a very young Telephone Industry worker are long gone in the current 2010 economy. You have to be ready, especially the younger new potential employees. Potentials must keep their minds sharp, their records clean, they should research the entities they may have to interview for, they should always practice a healthy lifestyle that includes a clean body, and now is the time to clear all the skeletons that could hold you back. You must know and understand that some employers research some of the social websites for your names, connections, and character flaws that could give them the reason(s) to trash your application. The potential employee must reflect a clean character that is better than the competition. Nothing..should slow you down not even that funny email address. You must be ready in all areas now! Will you be ready to start?
--Copyright Claude Evans 314-475-0744. 05/25/2010 ce0604@yahoo.com.
