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Spook · Mar 24, 2011

I haven't been looking for a job real hard, but I wanted something interesting to do. So I submitted a resume with the state UE agency. I got a call last Thursday about a job, a really great job. I was sent emails about background checks, personal info, all to be done ASAP. I completed everything, but nothing since. If you don't get a job, do they send you any info? BTW, I am sure it wasn't a scam.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2011

Think I'd put an alert on my credit cards and with the credit bureaus. And maybe even FBI and Homeland security (at least local law enforcement), if you gave the info asked for, someone has enough to do all kind of neat things in your name. May not be necessary, but better to be safe than sorry.
Good luck on the job though.

Dave

Jahaze · Mar 24, 2011

I have had the same experience. Any more, you almost never hear back from them, expecially if it"s a governmental agency. Sometimes it takes them months to sort through the applications, and you can always follow up with a phone call to find out if the position has been filled. I"ve applied for several jobs over the past year that I was qualified for and have never heard back from them.

Goose · Mar 24, 2011

Depends. It's a matter of courtesy on their part, but it's not a requirement, so it's their call whether to make a followup call to ones they don't hire. It depends a lot, too, on what was said when they contacted you.

Then too, they may be only thinking of creating a job and are fishing to see what's out there for applicants.

It's not exactly a black and white situation.

Spook · Mar 24, 2011

No government job, but one training others in what I used to do.

Spook · Mar 24, 2011

Thanks.

dej(Jed) · Mar 24, 2011

Hang in there, keep trying. Common courtesy, such as a refusal doesn't seem to be common in todays world. I have been down that road a time or two in my life. During the last couple of years I had occassion to apply for a couple of dozen jobs and never got so much as a "Thanks, but No Thanks". They have so many applicants these days, they don't have to be courteous. In my case they can get a younger person and pay them less.You don't have to give your age, but it isn't hard to figure that out from your job history.
It has alot to do with being in the right place at the right time.

Spook · Mar 24, 2011

Yeah, at 56, with 30 years experience.

dej(Jed) · Mar 24, 2011

I am 61. I had 28 years in and my new boss was cutting costs. Three years ago he told me I was an "employee at will" and that permitted him to legally fire me for no reason. Age discrimmination is a joke, it won't fly unless the boss tells you that you are too old and that has to be in front of a witnesses, who will tell the tale. To make matters worse I lost both my dad and mother 2 years ago. I am still dazed, but somehow I keep trying and we are getting by. I have been so darn depressed some days, I won't even tell you about my thoughts. Keep trying!

jackinok · Mar 24, 2011

dont give up!wheels turn slow in the gov.When I took this job, even though I knew I had it ,it was still almost two months before I went to work.paperwork has to go through 20 different people sometimes(all the way down to the cleaning folks I think sometimes)before it comes back around.If they offered you the job ,thats a pretty good start.

Goose · Mar 24, 2011

Interesting note. In 2004 the insurance company I was working for was ordered into liquidation.

Shortly thereafter, I had positive interviews, but wasn't hired, at three large companies before I settled into my present job of doing insurance inspections on real estate properties.

Within two years, all three of the companies where I wasn't hired were kaput. Two went belly up and one moved out of state. Must be some kind of irony in that.

RN · Mar 24, 2011

I've applied for a few jobs in past year and provide Email address. Most of the responses have been on line of: We will keep your application on file for 6 months along with others, or we have found someone who more fits our needs, or in one case a we are checking all 500 applicants who scored over acceptable level of test for the current 14 open positions- this has extended the initial application review process. That one was for the Unemployment Benefits intake clerk position. Social Security deposit/Medicare started December- now I'm 'retired' instead of 'unemployed'. Maybe I'll make another coffin this summer if I can't play in dirt with tractor. RN

Tony in Mass. · Mar 24, 2011

If you did this online, yeah maybe bogus, do stuff like this in person, in the state UE building, then they would be responsible for any fraud issues. I don't think it is in the best interest of UE or the people looking for help to tell you 'oh, the job is taken', because if they hired the wrong guy, they fire him or he quit or they dug something up after taking him in, they got egg on their face and have to come to you- again- hat in hand. Bad for their ego, and puts you in line to 'demand'. By keeping you on the back burner, in the dark, forever, saves them problems, covers their a$$. You need to put out feelers in the place with that job you applied for, see if your spy thinks there is a chance to get in or not. Good luck.

Spook · Mar 24, 2011

I am not dealing with the UE folks. It is a large national staffing company. I talked to the recruiter, got emails back and forth, and now, nothing. Last friday, it was when can you start, now it's ?????

Spook · Mar 24, 2011

I used to work for GM. They were pretty hard on older engineers. If you didn't go into management, you were pretty much done by 50. BTW, the policy was to NEVER settle on a age discrimination lawsuit. GM had one that went 13 years. It ended when the old guy died. And when you retire, you have to sign a waiver saying that you will never sue GM. No waiver, no retirement, or pension.

dej(Jed) · Mar 24, 2011

I have several degrees in Chemistry and any more I think that was a mistake. That in combination with my age. I can still out work most younger guys, but that doesn't matter. I am curently teaching Chemistry as a sub, but they don't pay so well. I opened a fuel testing lab, which is what I did all of my life, but testing is one of the things they cut down on when the economy falters. Oh well like I said we are making it, but it takes some hustling. I guess I will take SSI soon and start on my 401K money. Today I have an interview for an engineering position, but I don't have great hopes. A friend of mine worked for GM and retired from there. He ran a Euclid plant in Belgium and at some point in his career he was in charge of excess vehicle sales. He often said they traded cars for anything anyone had in the commodities line. He never had anything good to say about GM.

1936 · Mar 24, 2011

When you pee in the cup it is a done deal.

Tony in Mass. · Mar 24, 2011

O. Maybe Dave2 has a really good point, be REAL careful of SS#, financial, credit card info ... are you paying them to find a job? Take whatever info you have- print hard copies or bring it up online at your 'state employment office' and see what they think. I got ripped off by a 'service' like this years ago, stepped lightly after that deal. Let us know what happens.

TomH in PA · Mar 24, 2011

My daughter took the civil service exam in July, invited to an interview in October, was hired in December. Didn't hear anything in between.

huntingreen2day · Mar 25, 2011

Companies just don't want the older folks. I will soon be 63 and have worked at the same company just over 42 years. Never had anything but a day job, never been a supervisor, never wanted to be one. I went on medical leave for some foot surgery and the day I returned to work was told I was being assigned as a Maintenance Supervisor working 6 PM to 6 AM weekends. There were about 5 of us that got moved around, all older employees.

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