Dealing with unemployment - anyone else?

[Trek420]

Ivana, I'm employed and dealing with unemployment. I'm trying to transfer from my current job to another job in the same company. It's virtually the same job in the same company.

There is no transfer process for this particular move.

HR that I work with on this ranges from clueless to refusal to think outside the box to fearful of doing anything creative to downright putting roadblocks in my way.

But I will achieve my goal or ... take my skills elsewhere.

HR departments including my own are like kids in the candy store now. With so many out of work it's a "buyers market". They may feel "Oooh, this one's got an AA oooh this one has a Masters, that one is ..." Find a way to differentiate yourself, stand out from the crowd on skills and experience.

OTOH having a job hinders me right now. In a normal job market the best time to look for a job is while you have a job . But I think empathetic HR specialists are thinking "I can get people to work. I like to make that call "congratulations, you are HIRED! This one HAS a job."

Lastly I'm not necessarily recommending a call center enviornment but I work in one for oh I think about one of the top 10 or so largest companies in the world. And by the way it's likely I'm waaay further to the left of you and been so for a loooooooooong time, like from before you were born You would not know it to look at me but you're likely center progressive at best compared to me.

When you call us you don't know what we're wearing and you sure don't know my politics. Some of us dress to the nine's, others wears sweats to work. I'm normally in jeans and t'shirt and my current podmate is covered head to toe in tats.

She's starting her own clothing company along with a couple of friends . The idea for the product line literally started over a joke and a pun and a drawing scribbled on a napkin over lunch in the break rooom.

One of the owners of this line sits next to me and I believe any day now she'll quit and run this full time along with a couple of bands and musicians she manages.

http://www.pgapparel.com