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JOBWHERE
COMPETITIVE SALARY: We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors. JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY: we have no time to train you. CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE: We don't pay enough to expect that you'll dress well. MUST BE DEADLINE ORIENTED: You'll be six months behind schedule on your first day. SOME OVERTIME REQUIRED: Some time each night and some time each weekend. DUTIES WILL VARY: Anyone in the office can boss you around. MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL: We have no quality control. CAREER-MINDED: Female applicants must be childless (and remain that way). APPLY IN PERSON: If you're old, fat or ugly we tell you the position has already been filled. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE: We've filled the job, our call for résumés is just a legal formality. SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE: You'll need it to replace three people who just left. PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS A MUST: You're walking into a company in perpetual chaos. REQUIRES TEAM LEADERSHIP SKILLS: You'll have the responsibilities of a manager, without the pay or respect. GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Management communicates, you, figure out what really needs to be done and do it. I'M EXTREMELY ADEPT AT ALL MANNER OF OFFICE ORGANIZATION: I've used Microsoft Office. I'M HONEST, HARD-WORKING AND DEPENDABLE: I only pilfer office supplies. MY PERTINENT WORK EXPERIENCE INCLUDES... please don't ask me about all the "McJobs" I've had. I TAKE PRIDE IN MY WORK: I blame others for my mistakes. I AM PERSONABLE: I give lots of unsolicited personal advice to co-workers. I AM EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL: I carry a Day-Timer. I AM ADAPTABLE:I've changed jobs a lot. I AM ON THE GO: I am never at my desk. |
JOBS...?
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Really!
You could have a better chance of finding the winning ticket to a million dollar lottery lying on the sidewalk!
Sorry… like almost everywhere, there are no jobs here in NOWHERE…
It can be very depressing and sad.
Interesting fact seldom noted by our politicians:- If the total number of people working in the Information Technology industry DOUBLED overnight, the overall unemployment rate would drop by a whopping one tenth of one percent!
- After welcoming résumés from job seekers — in what was described as a zoo-like atmosphere, where applicants formed a line over half a kilometer long, the "NORTEL job machine" (as it was termed in Macleans Magazine Business Section, November 17,1997) managed to make about 200 job offers — but the company did hand out Nortel Frisbees® to the first 5,000 of the estimated 9,000 - 10,000 applicants seeking work.
The fact is, in terms of numbers, Info Tech (IT) workers don't rank in the TOP 20! It's very interesting to note that results of a December 1998 survey found over forty percent of IT workers would train in some other field if they could restart their career path.
BIG SHORTAGE OF Info Tech workers?
Well in this city of about roughly 85,000 employable souls — over 800 people applied for three computer programming jobs. Scaled up to Canada's largest city — Toronto, Ontario, that would be roughly 440,000 applicants or more than the total "IT" workforce in all of CANADA (as estimated by Statistics Canada) seeking a couple of dozen jobs!
Between 1993 and 1996 the average wage increase for Chief Executive Officers here in Canada was about forty percent – meanwhile during the same period the average worker's salary didn't even keep up with inflation, let alone cover increases in taxes! Census data shows a 16.4% increase in the number of households spending more than a third of their pre-tax income on housing.
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Macleans Magazine May 12, 1997:
Where are the jobs?
Having worked in the software industry for well over 20 years, I have to conclude that if our "software firms are crying out for workers" as claimed then they are badly in need of vocal training ("Desperate for help," Business, April 21). Seasoned programmers, analysts and designers cannot find regular full-time work, and recent graduates are heading for software jobs in the United States where the economy is growing — and where U.S. companies are ready and willing to invest time, money and support in their workers. Here in Canada, graduates often find that their rewarding careers in computer programming are limited to "coding" combo orders behind the counter of the local fast-food outlet...
