Here's a question. When I'm filling out a job application, and it asks if it may contact an employer I worked for eight years ago, what do I say? I mean, I guess they can, but I don't know that that employer would really remember me. Are they really likely to try to call the guy who used to be manager of the Boston office but is now Senior VP in charge of the northeast to ask him about an editor who worked for him for two years and left in 1998?
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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Emily - Apr 16, 2006 11:02:52 am PDT #1535 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Emily - Apr 16, 2006 11:05:02 am PDT #1536 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Also, they're asking about my salary. Damned if I can remember. Do I really have to put something? How is it relevant? My most recent job, sure, although it's in a totally different field. But 8 years ago, when I was an editor? 10, when I was a temp?
Lee - Apr 16, 2006 11:05:41 am PDT #1537 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse - Apr 16, 2006 11:08:20 am PDT #1538 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Emily, definitely say they can contact the old employer -- they probably won't, but if you say they can't it looks bad. Make up a salary, and leave off the temp stuff.
Tom, that is gorgeous furniture and lovely pictures! Your niece and nephew are so cute!
Emily - Apr 16, 2006 11:10:34 am PDT #1539 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, shoot. I have absolutely no idea what that editing job paid. Entry-level straight-outta-college type job, Boston, 1996... what sounds good?
msbelle - Apr 16, 2006 11:10:49 am PDT #1540 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Emily, always say they can call the employer. Most people won't bother and I certainly do not think that they will track down the person who actually supervised you. If they do contact a past employer, they will probably just talk to HR and ask about your time there and salary. Mostly they will want to verify that you were there when you said you were. Take a stab at the sallary, maybe even say approx.
What's this job? Ms. Fancy teacher lady.
Jesse - Apr 16, 2006 11:11:54 am PDT #1541 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I started at $20K my first admin job out of college in 1996, working for a nonprofit.
Emily - Apr 16, 2006 11:12:04 am PDT #1542 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Teaching in a summer Upward Bound program. It's just that the school has an online application process for ANY job at the university (and they only provided three space for education and told me to include high school - ha!).
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2006 11:22:20 am PDT #1543 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's been nice and sunny in this part of LA all morning.
I'm not sure about what to do next. I watched the new Doctor Who, and maybe a movie. Shower and a movie. Or perhaps just lying here on my lounge watching stuff off the TiVo and Netflix. I feel lassitude. But not in a bad way.
In a cozy, things are nice, way.
SailAweigh - Apr 16, 2006 11:27:56 am PDT #1544 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I'm afraid my lassitude is going to be interrupted by Easter dinner with my daughter's BF's parents. It's cool, though, since I didn't have to cook.
Tom, those pictures are great. Penguins! And red pandas! The neice and nephew are a couple of cuties.