Don't Complain That You Can't Get A Job When....

People. Please. I know that it is very hard to get a job these days. We are not only fighting with our peers, we are also fighting the youth and the old to start working during this recession. But please, please, PLEASE don't complain that you can't get a job when you can't even do the proper procedures during the hiring/interviewing process.

Don't complain that you can't get a job when....

...you don't even have an email address. You have to get with the times people, email is here to stay. You can get a total bill through email just to save trees if you wanted.

... your email address is something like lala420allday@yahoo.com or mikey187@gmail.com or sexypornstar@hotmail.com. Come on people? Do you really think an employer is going to even look at an application through email if the sender of the application has an email like any of those stated?

... you put down your auntie's boyfriend's cousin's sister number for a telephone number where you can be reached at. That is just ridiculous. Um Trac phone, Metro, HELLO!

...you put down your cell phone number as contact information, but the VM has all types of music and sounds and swearing on it? So unprofessional. It's as easy as "Hi, I can't come to the phone right now..."

...you go to an interview that says business casual and you wear some Coogi Jeans, a button up and some new sneakers. Or you wear an outfit that you would wear to the club and call it business casual. No No No people... when an employer wants you to wear something business casual, they mean khakis. Plain and simple.

... you write down jobs on your resume that you only worked at for a couple of months at a time. This doesn't look good. Yeah, you had some jobs, but it shows that you just go from job to job to job and can't stay put.

I would expect most of those out there to know these common errors, but a lot of people don't know that these are the things that cause a person not to get a job or a call back. We are competing with a bunch of different people out there. Why would someone hire those that don't seem like they take getting a job seriously? Just a little FYI to you all. ♥