The reason is that the resumes and the application forms are handed over to the staff rather than the managers, meaning that the chances are they go directly to the garbage bins the next day. It sucks but the same shit is just happening on a daily basis: the managers are desparately looking for some people but never see any application while the "We are hiring" signs are hung all year long.
Many newcomers experienced the same thing in Calgary in 2002, shortly following the IT boom. What is really interesting is that in general the non-principal applicants got the jobs, labour positions of course, earlier than the principal applicants; The non-degree applicants earlier than the degree holders; Women earlier than men.
Focus on further study and professional jobs for men and degree holders may be part of the reasons for the above phenomenon, but you can see from this phenomenon what skills are more important as a labour for the employers.
A "successful" guy once said that you should not say that you were the principal applicant when looking for a labour job. That was then, it may not work now.
The reason is that the resumes and the application forms are handed over to the staff rather than the managers, meaning that the chances are they go directly to the garbage bins the next day. It sucks but the same shit is just happening on a daily basis: the managers are desparately looking for some people but never see any application while the "We are hiring" signs are hung all year long.
Do you mean that the assistants are doing something against the will of their bosses. If that is the case, they would have been fired. It happens, but definitely not on a daily basis.
An example is that you even don't need a resume to get a labour job in late 2006 and all year in 2007 in Calgary and some other cities.
Do you mean that the assistants are doing something against the will of their bosses. If that is the case, they would have been fired. It happens, but definitely not on a daily basis.
An example is that you even don't need a resume to get a labour job in late 2006 and all year in 2007 in Calgary and some other cities.