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Job Hunting
What's a way to find lots of corporations quickly and submit your resume through their job search features? Why...Jayski of course!
Jayski is a NASCAR website. More fansite than official, although he does partner with ESPN now. One thing he has is a page for each team. With links to the sponsor websites on each of those pages. Both main and associate sponsors.
I've been going through this morning and basically applying for PR or marketing jobs through those websites. It's amazingly efficient. I've given up caring *where* I look. The nice part is that it's not too narrow (like looking on the local career page at the newspaper or just searching my area on Monster/CareerBuilder/HotJobs). And it's not overwhelming like searching public relations on Monster/Careerbuilder/HotJobs and getting everything for the entire country (which I'll have to do eventually).
The Dream Job
You know, the more I look for a job, the more I want to grab my dog and my couch (okay, and my laptop, my TV and my bed) and move to a tropical island and wait tables at a bar, or work in a surf shop, and spend my time lounging in my cute little bungalow, free from the constraints of the material world.
For real, folks. I want to. I don't even like the beach, but dang, I want a cheap place to live in a tropical locale and nice air to breathe and few worries.
Just don't tell my mother I said that. She's have a heart attack. Although she would LOVE to come visit me in such a place, since my parents love the beach.
Big City Media v. Small Town Cops
Watched a few minutes of the press conference on CNN about the pregnant Marine who they now know is dead. It's kind of sad when a press conference that's about a sad subject is inadvertently funny.
The characters: the small town sheriff and the big city reporter.
Now, most of the reporters were spot on, asked great questions for clarification and were quite professional. Unfortunately, one reporter was apparently out to make a name for himself and decided that this podunk sheriff would be the perfect target as he *obviously* was mismanaging the case.
Unfortunately for the reporter, the sheriff was one of them there small town cops with tons of common sense.
The reporter got all up in arms because yesterday the sheriff said they hadn't spoken to the Marine who was suspected of raping her. Turns out, that's the guy that killed her. The reporter managed to phrase his question in the most obnoxious way, pointing out that the sheriff hadn't questioned the killer. (The strong implication was that the sheriff needed to be told how to do his job, because he had to be stupid to not talk to the suspect in one case who could have been involved in another.)
The sheriff got snippy right back at the guy and pointed out that 1) they didn't have the evidence the day before that said the guy was the killer, 2) the guy had been clamming up and refusing to talk based on advice from his attorney and kept failing to show up every time he said he would to meet with them and 3) the sheriff wasn't going to give the press details the day before in an ongoing investigation as to who he'd like to talk with when the lawyer for the suspect was standing right beside him at the time, which could have tipped the suspect off as to what they wanted to do.
It was almost comical. That reporter shut up right quick after that.
What's a way to find lots of corporations quickly and submit your resume through their job search features? Why...Jayski of course!
Jayski is a NASCAR website. More fansite than official, although he does partner with ESPN now. One thing he has is a page for each team. With links to the sponsor websites on each of those pages. Both main and associate sponsors.
I've been going through this morning and basically applying for PR or marketing jobs through those websites. It's amazingly efficient. I've given up caring *where* I look. The nice part is that it's not too narrow (like looking on the local career page at the newspaper or just searching my area on Monster/CareerBuilder/HotJobs). And it's not overwhelming like searching public relations on Monster/Careerbuilder/HotJobs and getting everything for the entire country (which I'll have to do eventually).
The Dream Job
You know, the more I look for a job, the more I want to grab my dog and my couch (okay, and my laptop, my TV and my bed) and move to a tropical island and wait tables at a bar, or work in a surf shop, and spend my time lounging in my cute little bungalow, free from the constraints of the material world.
For real, folks. I want to. I don't even like the beach, but dang, I want a cheap place to live in a tropical locale and nice air to breathe and few worries.
Just don't tell my mother I said that. She's have a heart attack. Although she would LOVE to come visit me in such a place, since my parents love the beach.
Big City Media v. Small Town Cops
Watched a few minutes of the press conference on CNN about the pregnant Marine who they now know is dead. It's kind of sad when a press conference that's about a sad subject is inadvertently funny.
The characters: the small town sheriff and the big city reporter.
Now, most of the reporters were spot on, asked great questions for clarification and were quite professional. Unfortunately, one reporter was apparently out to make a name for himself and decided that this podunk sheriff would be the perfect target as he *obviously* was mismanaging the case.
Unfortunately for the reporter, the sheriff was one of them there small town cops with tons of common sense.
The reporter got all up in arms because yesterday the sheriff said they hadn't spoken to the Marine who was suspected of raping her. Turns out, that's the guy that killed her. The reporter managed to phrase his question in the most obnoxious way, pointing out that the sheriff hadn't questioned the killer. (The strong implication was that the sheriff needed to be told how to do his job, because he had to be stupid to not talk to the suspect in one case who could have been involved in another.)
The sheriff got snippy right back at the guy and pointed out that 1) they didn't have the evidence the day before that said the guy was the killer, 2) the guy had been clamming up and refusing to talk based on advice from his attorney and kept failing to show up every time he said he would to meet with them and 3) the sheriff wasn't going to give the press details the day before in an ongoing investigation as to who he'd like to talk with when the lawyer for the suspect was standing right beside him at the time, which could have tipped the suspect off as to what they wanted to do.
It was almost comical. That reporter shut up right quick after that.
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