I’m in the US, no degree, and absolutely sick to death of working in retail.
I’ve tried all the jobs website. They haven’t even gotten me an interview. The only job search method that’s ever given me results is to think of businesses near me and apply to them directly. But that only leaves me working more retail, since public facing businesses are all I’m interacting with.
I just want a job that pays my bills, and lets me work on a consistent schedule. I’m so sick of having my hours constantly whipped back and forth. I just want to go to bed at the same time every day.
About two years ago and no, I didn’t know them (but I did have experience on the field) I just googled local companies. I got an interview in the second place I asked.
A lot of businesses - especially where I live - don’t even post jobs online anymore because they get flooded with AI-generated applications from people who don’t actually even want the job but are forced to apply to keep collecting unemployment benefits.
The only realistic way to get hired at a place like that is to either know the right people or be in the right place at the right time. That doesn’t have to mean literally walking in the door if that feels like too high a bar - cold-emailing them and just asking works too.
Well, 2 years ago when I was looking for a job and tried the same thing, I got told the don’t take resume’s unless there was a specific job posting. And I was asked if I saw a position advertised. Then asked to leave the business when I said I was following advice like this.
You hit a one in a million.
I don’t think it’s luck. What probably explains more of it is that I was applying for a job that involves getting your hands dirty in a company with less than 10 employees.
I stand behind my advice. I think displaying a genuine personality will pay off in the long run. Nobody remembers the generic application they trashed without reading, but they do remember the guy who showed up as himself.
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And me applying to the same sort of postion in yhe same sort of company means you really are just working with confirmation bias.
I’m not making any statements about universal truths here. I’ve simply followed the advice given to me and gotten good results with it, so I want to spread it forward. I’m just trying to be helpful.
This is such a Lemmy moment again.
Well, it seems most people on lemmy find it to be bad advice, and they seem to have gotten there by trying it.
So thanks for creating the “lemmy moment”