What Do You Do If You’ve Been Out of Work So Long Employers Won’t Hire You? (VIDEO)

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This is a followup to a video I did yesterday that asked why employers don’t hire people who have been out of work for a while.

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5 thoughts on “What Do You Do If You’ve Been Out of Work So Long Employers Won’t Hire You? (VIDEO)”

  1. So basically in a nutshell, be flexible enough to give up your home, & go
    back to school for training and rebuilding skills. Been there, done that.
    Haven’t seen my bank’s house since 2010. Still living out of suitcases &
    cardboard boxes. My skills are beyond par, and my interviews seem to do
    well. In fact, I landed a job 56 miles from this rental on my first
    interview since my last job back in June. Problem was the Indian engineer I
    was supposed to be brought up to speed by was there for 30 yrs & the owners
    wanted him replaced. He didn’t waste anytime telling the owners I wasn’t
    going to work, didn’t know their products well enough, didn’t know their
    CAD system as well as they did, etc.. So within 3 weeks I simply agreed &
    left. Since then I’ve only interviewed at 2 companies so far, one over 50
    miles away, the other only 15 minutes away. The local job was interview #2
    for Plant Project Engineer, and involved meeting 5 from
    management/engineering so far. Hoping for an offer of employment in January
    2017.

  2. So basically in a nutshell, be flexible enough to give up your home, & go back to school for training and rebuilding skills. Been there, done that. Haven’t seen my bank’s house since 2010. Still living out of suitcases & cardboard boxes. My skills are beyond par, and my interviews seem to do well. In fact, I landed a job 56 miles from this rental on my first interview since my last job back in June. Problem was the Indian engineer I was supposed to be brought up to speed by was there for 30 yrs & the owners wanted him replaced. He didn’t waste anytime telling the owners I wasn’t going to work, didn’t know their products well enough, didn’t know their CAD system as well as they did, etc.. So within 3 weeks I simply agreed & left. Since then I’ve only interviewed at 2 companies so far, one over 50 miles away, the other only 15 minutes away. The local job was interview #2 for Plant Project Engineer, and involved meeting 5 from management/engineering so far. Hoping for an offer of employment in January 2017.

  3. So basically in a nutshell, be flexible enough to give up your home, & go back to school for training and rebuilding skills. Been there, done that. Haven’t seen my bank’s house since 2010. Still living out of suitcases & cardboard boxes. My skills are beyond par, and my interviews seem to do well. In fact, I landed a job 56 miles from this rental on my first interview since my last job back in June. Problem was the Indian engineer I was supposed to be brought up to speed by was there for 30 yrs & the owners wanted him replaced. He didn’t waste anytime telling the owners I wasn’t going to work, didn’t know their products well enough, didn’t know their CAD system as well as they did, etc.. So within 3 weeks I simply agreed & left. Since then I’ve only interviewed at 2 companies so far, one over 50 miles away, the other only 15 minutes away. The local job was interview #2 for Plant Project Engineer, and involved meeting 5 from management/engineering so far. Hoping for an offer of employment in January 2017.

  4. +The Triple M, I told job hunters for years. Do not walk into situations like the one you walked into without raising what happened to you is a question. I would tell him to ask, “I see you have someone in the job was a vested interest in my failure.” That’s where my question would start off. It doesn’t matter the ethnicity of the individual. It matters that they are a consultant who risks losing their home and having to move their family, just like you have done. So they sabotage their potential replacement, rather than be cooperative.

  5. +The Triple M, I told job hunters for years. Do not walk into situations like the one you walked into without raising what happened to you is a question. I would tell him to ask, “I see you have someone in the job was a vested interest in my failure.” That’s where my question would start off. It doesn’t matter the ethnicity of the individual. It matters that they are a consultant who risks losing their home and having to move their family, just like you have done. So they sabotage their potential replacement, rather than be cooperative.

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