"Administrative Assistant, you will work alongside department leaders.This opportunity is ideal for any proactive team player whose confidence, resourcefulness and attention to detail will enable them to thrive in the many facets of this role. "
My confidence is shaken, I don't know if other employers would LIKE my brand of resourcefulness, and attention to detail can mean that they'd want me to pay attention to some details that I'd maybe miss. Since I do taxes I have an UBER attention to detail and can pick up on what others overlook. Also since I did taxes and did QA and QC for a tax firm, I can look ahead 'past the horizon' and figure out what would go down if this was done or that was done. I don't have the clothes, I'm FAT, I just don't give the corporate 'look' and I'm too casual with my mouth. I WRITE really corporately (my word for it) but my mouth isn't. I was too long in a place where they put up with my little idiosyncrasies because I really was an overall asset to the org, like one of those 20-in-1 tools.
I dunno, I think the whole thing is now starting to get to me; being let go, self-esteem spiraling downward, tired of all this paperwork and these calls and trying to do my resume and answers for jobs to match what they job description is...
It's been so long since I went looking for a job, everything is now online, I just feel like crawling back into bed or something. A LOT.
Huh, here I am feeling sorry for myself, and wonder how quiet it is in the office up on the 2nd floor and how much work is being piled on them? I miss it. I felt like part of a team, not only within my department but with the whole org. Now, I'm not only NOT part of the team but the big team didn't WANT me to be on their smaller team! Shades of elementary school i.e. last one picked for team activities.
A writer for AOL jobs, Bill Hartnett writes in a December 2013 article to not take it personally.
I left in a good way from the org, I understood 'position eliminated', but that's usually when they want to get rid of someone. Got news, I have some underlying information and it WAS personal. TOTALLY. So it came down through the ranks to get rid of this 'Lynne'.
Looking back on it, I don't think I'd feel very good if I was still there and 4-7 people of my Division had to leave/left and I was there after they'd gone. I'd probably be a nervous wreck, wondering when the ax came for me. I'd be willing to make book on THAT.
If the EDD wants you to start looking for jobs NOW, how can you intelligently look for a job when you're unprepared with a resume and and idea of the skills you think the potential employer needs? I mean I finally finished the skills search, but now translate that into a resume online? That's going to take some work, and again, I don't want to apply for something I think I'll get without a prepared document!
UPDATE to the Goodwill 'restructuring':So actually 6 of us were 'let go', given the boot, etc. from GOC between 5-23-14 and 5-28-14: 4 of us from Data Processing, 1 from Asset Protection and 1 VP.
Another person in Data Processing has another job and will be leaving next week. He, I guess, was going to be 'phased out' anyway. So instead of 6 people in the Data processing work area, there are only 3, the count is including the supervisor, but not the manager (he's in what used to be my and his office-now it's just his office).
6-7-14 More news-another person in the Human Services Division was let go-a job developer. 2 more people left the Division.
Here's a worm's-eye view of the org and the Human Services Division:
- Human Services-VP
- Community Based Services-1 Director
- Supported Employment
- Job Placement, Funded
- Human Services grant programs-1 Director
- Veteran's Services
- Beyond Jobs (Women's jobs)
- Volunteer To Work 2 persons left on their own 6-6-2014
- Employment WORKS! North and South County
- Job Placement, Non-Funded 1 person let go 6-6-2014
- ETES-1 Senior Manager (who was MY boss)
- Intake and Admissions
- Data Processing/Information Systems 4 persons let go 5-23 to 5-27-14. One was me, one person was older, one person I felt really sorry for because FREAKIN' COBRA is appx $900-$1100 and she could barely afford her apt and car, and one person had JUST come back from her honeymoon and was let go the day she got back! Finally, 1 person would've been let go except he found another job but he was going to leave anyway, last day 6-13-14
- Deaf Services/Deaf Interpreting
- Client Services
- COO
- Asset Protection 1 person let go 6-4-2014
- Marketing and Communications-VP let go 5-23-2014
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