Thread: It's official, I applied for a job at AOS

Good Luck Dylan!

You have always been most graceful and informative when ever I've had contact with you!!!

Any company that needs Good People With Excellent Service Skills Can't Go Wrong With You! Again! Good Luck!

Best of luck Dylan, it would do them honors to have a knowledgeable and helpful guy as yourself in their ranks. If they know what's good for them, you'll not be unemployed for long.

Dylan,
Good luck and if there is anything I can do please me know.

Good luck. Personally I think experience is overrated. Not experience in general, but in specific.
If you are skilled, hardworking and eager to learn, it doesn're really matter if you have the specific experience required. For example, when I applied for my current job, I came from a software development background (test and measurement). I worked on high tech laser equipment, sattelite test benches, GPS signal simulators, Xray machines, etc. I am a softare geek.

I was getting sick of commuting and irregular hours, so I applied for a position at the place where my wife worked, just to get some interviewing experience. I was really not a match for the position of process automation engineer. My prospective boss invited me anyway because of my resume, he told me flat out he was not going to hire me for that position at the beginning of the interview . But he was looking for someone to take care of the system side of things, and with enough background to be able to debug network problems, Active Directory, databases, ... and with the skills to write custom applications to automate manual tasks where appropriate. I didn't get the job then because there was no position to fill. A couple of months later the budget was approved and I was hired. The fact that I hd absolutely no experience with the specific applications or databases was not an objection.

A couple of years later I had to conduct the interviews for hiring a colleague for the same job profile, and I followed the same strategy. I did not care about specific experience, but about whether the person would be able to work productively in a pharmaceutical environment and had a solid background for that line of work. And as luck would have it, I was able to recommend a former colleague with a similar backround as I had (we worked together for 10 years).

The moral of this longish story: Don't let lack of experience hold you back from applying for a job if it looks interesting. Once you land the interview, it is a matter of selling yourself. If you are the kind of person who is eager to learn and has a solid background, you should be able to market yourself if the interviewer knows what is good for him. If he doesn't then that's his loss.

Admittedly, all other things being equal, the person with experience is most likely to land the job. Therefore you must try to convince the interviewer that all things are not equal.

Good luck Dylan! Hope it all works out...!

The best of luck to you!
I sincerely hope you'll get that job

Good luck Dylan. We will miss having you in the neighborhood but sometimes you just have to go where the work is.

Dylan,

All the best to you. It's a pity that the teaching profession is losing somebody with your education as a science teacher.

I hope that your job search is successful.

BTW...Do you have an electronic copy of your c. v.? Can you send it to me via my email?

Originally Posted by CarrieM

Good luck Dylan. We will miss having you in the neighborhood but sometimes you just have to go where the work is.

Well, I'll only be moving if I got the job, so not to worry yet.

Originally Posted by jhenry

Dylan,

All the best to you. It's a pity that the teaching profession is losing somebody with your education as a science teacher.

I hope that your job search is successful.

BTW...Do you have an electronic copy of your c. v.? Can you send it to me via my email?

I have so many different versions... one for teaching jobs, one for retail type jobs, one for photographer work, one for computer related work, and now a shaving related one... Drop me a PM about which you'd like and I'll send it your way.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Well, I'll only be moving if I got the job, so not to worry yet.

Not worried Just trying to think positive for you getting a job at AOS. You would be perfect for it. You can even professionally hone their blades for them lol