Author: Olivia

Given a job offer and they are needing the exact dates of all of my previous jobs over the past 5 years. They say one wrong date that conflicts with the background check will fail the system and you won’t be able to reapply until a year later. I’ve never heard of this. Can anyone help? I’ve had random jobs throughout college and some internships I have on my resume that companies don’t have exact dates of.

I am a retail recruiter for a billion dollar corporation. I hire people nationwide at low wages to get yelled at by customers at the request of my leaders. Whenever I interview someone and they ask for more money, the most I can get approved is $1 or $2 if they meet the criteria. That's it. These jobs do not pay enough for a two bedroom apartment in every market I've recruited for yet this is what they're paying people. I think I know how to solve it and I need everyone to keep an open mind. I know how pay increases are decided by mega corporations and its not by recruiters but typically operations and HR. Let's say I have a job market with a bunch of dispositioned candidates and most of the notes are “candidate says the job doesn't pay enough”. A few steps will be taken first…

“This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, 1968 how many examples of this are there? i'm still appalled that not a single executive went to jail for the economic collapse in 2008/2009. trickle up economics are the name of the game. /rantover