Day: January 5, 2018

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

me: you can’t just say farms abuse livestock as a generalizing fact

them: um sweetie if you’d ever actually BEEN to a farm you’d know

me: … ….. . anyway

oh and before anyone can jump on the “removing an animal from its mother and hand-rearing it is also abuse” train, that fawn and a few others sired by the same buck were born blind. their mothers rejected them and didn’t nurse them in the first few hours of their lives, and they were dying painfully. They had to be euthanized, but that one was surprisingly resilient and still sort of alright, and I asked if we could experiment hand-raising a blind deer. It learned to follow my voice like it would the call of its mother and trusted me unconditionally and lived a happy, wonderful life before eventually dying of genetic health complications as a well-lived adult.

oh-heck-me:

Job Corps violates human rights and abuses vulnerable young people, and if I were a rich politician, the first thing I would do would be completely overhaul Job Corps.  If I could have any Official Job in the world, I’d pick doing that.

I wouldn’t even know about Job Corps if it weren’t for relationships.  My family didn’t fit the financial requirements, and my parents had no idea it existed because their social circles vastly differed from mine.  Zech, another guy I dated, and Beth all went to Job Corps and suffered for no reason in it. 

Making a teenager with Cerebral Palsy dig a ditch with a spoon and advertising this shit as job training is nothing short of sadistic cruelty.  And that’s far from the worst of it, the worst of it is that there are ever growing fatalities.  Violent as hell fatalities.  Abuse runs rampant, and no one in charge cares, at least not enough that anything gets changed.  They see these kids and young adults (16 – 24) as the scum of the earth.

And this is advertised as a great opportunity to impart skills to youth and the only way to help vulnerable young people in your family, and parents and guardians are still falling for it.  I hate this so passionately.  I was reminded last night that it exists and is still like this, and I am so angry.  Sadistic bastards.

largoindminor:

topsecretespeonage:

neurofancier:

khirsahle:

newtsckamander:

suaimhneas-peace:

emeraldboreas:

a-windsor:

mellivorinae:

a-windsor:

mellivorinae:

OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???

“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”

I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT

NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU.

Also:

Dear ______:

Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future].

Sincerely,
@mellivorinae

THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE

YOU ARE WELCOME

My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.

should it be an email? or like a physical letter?

email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are. 

Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.

I didn’t get the job.

However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.

So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.

Either way, those letters are important.

Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it. 

Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.

Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)

rb to add if you have an interview with multiple people including those that would be your eventual peers, e-mail them as well, they often have a say in the hiring process and are usually overlooked because folks tend to just thank the “hiring” person. ask them for their cards, if it’s that kind of place, or ask HR for their contact info.