how long did it take you to find your current job?

10 weeks. (This was during the aftermath of 9/11.)

It found me, so no time at all I guess. (I was recruited by a client of my previous employer. The previous employer: 10 days.)

like not even a month out of school. It was great and all, but I think it spoiled me. I've been quasi-job hunting for the last 2 yrs and keep coming up empty-handed. Obviously if I were dead serious about a career change, I'd lower my standards considerably. But yeah, I think my early luck made me soft. but being soft is better than unemployed, so...

Fired Jan 2nd
Interviewed 30th and 31st Jan
Offered 31st Jan
Started 3rd March

I casually looked for around three months on arkansasjobs.net.

Now I work for arkansasjobs.net!

After I finished school, moved, & quit two part-time jobs almost simultaneously, I had a horrible 9 months where I had no idea what I wanted to do and could not get motivated to apply for much at all and just barely got by freelancing. Then I finally applied to a couple temp agencies, both of whom wanted me, and picked the one I liked more and after a couple weeks of weird temp jobs, got placed in the office I work in now, where I became a permanent employee after 6 months.

technically I hopped from one contractor to another in exactly one weekend, but as far as the actual job, hardly any time at all. I started looking and putting my resume around in december/january, had an interview and an offer by the middle of january, then had to wait on background checks and etc etc until about April when I got my actual start date. I haven't been unemployed for any stretch of time since november 1999.

um

I was in the hunt for about 6 months, but it was about 2-3 weeks from the time I applied to being hired.

Couple of weeks. December 1996 is a blur.

i need a job for june 1. is it too early to apply for things? i don't know why i'm even worried about this since i should just find an in somewhere rather than relying on posted jobs (since they always go to someone who knows someone anyway).

Never too early; about the only drawback is that they might want you to start early.

Also if you are going to start working connections and head hunters start early. It'll take a month for those to start producing anything, a month to do interviews and then you can reasonably have a month's notice or so which takes you to the end of june so you are in the right timeframe for a june start now, given you have no notice. YOu don't want to be starting looking in the summer.

I found the job on the last day of advertising, applied and was successfully at interview, which was coincidentally on the same day as my driving test which I also passed.

Good day.

the received wisdom around our program was that we should start looking in february to have something lined up by graduation. but i didn't really start looking until march, and even then not in earnest until two weeks ago. i feel okay though; i'm "graduating" in may but i have to take one more class that ends in mid-june. so i can't start full-time until then anyway.

5 mins. I't took that long to get to the job centre :(

7 weeks to find, fired after 2 weeks. This is the first time I've been canned.

3-4 weeks roughly

I've really been a wuss about facing unemployment. I took the first job I could get out of college, and then I was offered my current job direclty from there. Have been in it four years.

is this going to be your first job, getbent?

I think the total amount of time I've been without a job since graduating from school is 3 months. Since June 1995. Ugh, no wonder I need a vacation.

my last two real honest-to-god relaxing vacation periods were probably the 9 days I took for terminal leave at the end of my active duty enlistment and then the week or so that I spent getting paid out of my company's overhead budget to sit at home while DHS processed my badge paperwork

I need to remind myself more often that to just sit around close to home and do nothing for a few days is a totally acceptable expenditure of my paid time off

My current service sector job I found within a week. Same industry, just moving my entry level ass from one city to another, and I had experience, so I was golden.

I'm looking for my first post-college job now and I'm hoping to have something set up by August at the latest.

remy should apply here:

http://rtmmlaw.com/

is this going to be your first job, getbent?

first job out of grad school, yes. unless you mean "first job" in general, in which case god no, i'm not that much of an aspie.

I had answered a Craigslist posting about three or four months earlier before they called me up out of the blue. Started on one project and then a couple months later I was full-time.

I was looking to quit substitute teaching and saw an ad for it on The Internet and decided to apply. Applied, never heard back. Two years later I saw it open again and applied for it again. That time I got an interview and the offer and ended up replacing the guy who got it two years prior.

It took me a month-and-a-half. I only did two weeks of putting in applications before I got my interview. They ended up hiring someone else for the position, but they called me up a month later asking if I wanted to do a different job on a temp-to-hire basis. Me: "Who needs benefits?"

A couple of months, but I wasn't looking that hard. It's hard to wrap up grad school and line up a job all at the same time--I couldn't even concentrate on job hunting until I got my degree, took a vacation, etc. I was living at home though, so I didn't have that much pressure to find immediate full-time work.

It's very hard to say, because I don't know when to count from.

Current job = found while searching on & off for 6 months while actively hating the job I was at; they actually contacted me; been there since August of last year

Actively hated job = result of a year-long co-op / internship I was doing while finishing up my BS in CompSci; took the job only because I was afraid of being unemployed so soon after spending 6 months on the dole & being lazy about having to find a job after working fullish-time and schooling for 2+ years (when not unemployed and mooching off BFF) & they offered a phat signing bonus that was totally NOT worth the agita the job caused tho the big load of cash upfront was :D :D :D :D

about 3 days:
email to friends 'guys i am running outta money and stressing b/c am almost done thesis but really gotta do some part-time work to live'
email from friend 'there is full-time job here pays well'
phone call to friend 'hm. okaaa-ay'
next day interview 'alright then'
next day work

this was abt 6 blurry months ago. apparently i am abt to become Pub1ic Re1ations Officer. though maybe not 'officer' but it wld be awesome to be an officer, right??!

Ossifer Roybin

I am at yr command ossifer

lol
i am going to get a cap