The Spaghetti-Wall Technique

[opabinia]

deserves a review article. I don't volunteer to write it.

Genzyme swears they're hiring. I pulled a bunch of jobs from their web site, and I intend to apply to them. I will even write several cover letters tailored to sub-sets of job descriptions. This is a lot of effort directed at a statistically crappy possibility. First, Genzyme could be exaggerating their growth to attract investors -- the opportunities could be false. Second, the postings may serve as a survey tool to assess the feasibility of launching a new project or moving an existing one to a location full of eager applicants (so the jobs don't exist either -- they simply could exist). Third, even if a job does exist, only three million of my closest career-desperate friends and I will apply to each one.

I still have to do it, because nobody's going to take me by the hand and lead me to a new job.

I neglected to mention earlier that one of the companies at the last job fair asked me flat-out: "Do you have a Science degree?" I replied that of course I did, why else would I be there. They said they had been plagued by unemployed computer industry professionals.

"It makes sense to look for biostats-computing-type work here," I said; but as it turns out, they were just desperate IT/helpdesk/programmer folk who couldn't find a job anywhere else, so they had taken to visiting other types of job fairs. Yay the economy.

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This stupid plasmid better show up. I used enough EtBr to poison all of Norway.

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Kettlebells. I can feel the tendrils of the workout rush reaching back through time for my brain. Workout rush tendrils are touching my brain! Or maybe I'm psyched about Ceremony, or both.

Comments

[eeyrg.livejournal.com]

"Do you have a Science degree?"

well, technically so do i. :) perhaps they should ask if you have a biomedical science degree or something a bit more specific?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

That's what they meant. They were screening out CS majors, that's all. It was eerie.

[jhimm.livejournal.com]

hence the popularity of

"my job was out-sourced to india,
and all i got was this lousy t-shirt".

[eeyrg.livejournal.com]

yuck :-/

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

"could be exaggerating their growth to attract investors -- the opportunities could be false."


Oh, dear God. They do that? I'm so naive!

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

I have no proof, but I've heard rumors about such tactics. I hate people.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

I've heard that rumor plenty. I still like the "we're posting this ad publicly because we have to -- but we're hiring internally anyways despite how great a candidate you might be..."