Gonna be trying furry convention next month

Same...maybe then i find a job again lol

Becoming a furry just to get in a line of work is like changing religion for the community support

I found joining a job search counsel via the book never search alone to be helpful. You didn't have to read the book first because reading the book is part of the JSC.

Might be worth your time looking into it.

Let me know how that goes.

Is there an Intro to Furry Guide and a FAQ?

Are there classes I can take to get Furry Certified?

Do I need to engage in sexual activity which doesn’t align with my current non-furry orientation?

Furries are typically nonsexual. It's more often than not just roleplay for autistics.

Source, autistic furry who doesn't want to fuck in the extremely expensive fursuit

Im looking for work and trying to understand what you said.

Congrats on your new job in Quantico?

There's 2 types of furries:

I paid a ton of money for this fursuit, I don't want to ruin it by having sex in it!

I paid a ton of money for this fursuit, of course I'm going to use it for sex!

Whos Quantico?

Ah this place where careers go to die. But they love animals there.

Here: https://www.neversearchalone.org/jsc

I would also recommend the book Take the Work Out of Networking.

I've talked to several recruiters, and outside of entry level positions none of them are interviewing anyone who doesn't have a referral because there are so many referrals they find enough qualified candidates before they get to the non-referrals. That's a product of just how bad the job market is.

I'm about to post two jobs myself with a total comp of ~$180k and I already have enough referrals that I won't interview anyone that isn't a referral. And the posting isn't even up yet.

The JSC via Never Search Alone paired with Take the Work Out of Networking has all the skills and advice needed to navigate the current job market as successfully as possible.

I wish you all the best, and am happy to answer as many questions as I can if you'd like.

Yeah, I'm sorry I don't really know the reference. It seems to be a TV series or a town in the US

Honestly though, I searched for at least 6 months before my brother in law was like "I might be able to recommend you to a guy I know at a company I used to work at" and within the month I was hired.

Child care is expensive - church offers that.

Wait... How do I get a job at a furry convention? And is that job "full-time pet?" 🤔

Yeah it's a big military/fbi town. The joke was the FBI removed the exemption of people who've had sex with animals. I never thought I would see that reading the news.

S tier ain’t what it used to be. Inflation is everywhere.

I had been applying for a year and a half until one day one of the companies was having an open house kinda recruiting event. I went in and the manager said that based on my resume and lack of relevant experience he wouldn't interview me. He's now my boss.

It's a one question quiz, actually:

Do you want to be a furry? Yes or no?

If yes, congrats! You're now a furry.

I'm actually an asexual furry. So no, you don't have to engage in any sex at all. I like the aesthetic and I've met a bunch of my friends through the fandom as a shared point of commonality.

Probably the biggest question you'll get asked as a new furry is "what is your fursona?" If you say you don't have one, everyone will make a pitch to try to sell you on theirs. (psst Maned wolves are cool.)

For a more in depth explanation, take a look at furscience. They're an actual research institution studying the fandom.

I hope I don't need to go this route. I'm currently looking for a new job, and I barely know anyone who can give me the hook-up.

Recruiter is F tier.

I've found that having an opinion helps in job applications, from personal experience. There's so much AI garbage being thrown around in terms of job applications, so if you can throw in an actual opinion about something, especially if it's tech related, then that might at least stand out.

maned wolves are cool as hell!!!

Woah, this maybe a good way of contributing what seems to be a skill I have. Not trying to brag but as a 33 year old skidmark on the national economy, I am currently batting 1000 on job interviews over my life. I have multiple times just quit a job on the spot and had a new one before weeks end. I'm not sure why, or how, but I have never been interviewed and not offered the job. Mind, none of them have required "skills" or "education" beyond what I've picked up along the way, they could be called entry level jobs but I've never really seen a path upward in any of the companies, doesn't seem to work like that anymore. Just jobs, ~$40k a year usually with benefits. I have always had a hard time understanding why people who "can't find work" don't just take a job that's available while they look for the perfect one. Spoiler, I have never found a perfect job, aside from working for myself.

I was out of work for four months spamming resumes on different job websites before a recruiter cold called me and got me in at my current place so can confirm. Out of five different professional jobs I've had, only one of them has been off of job search platforms :/

I interviewed for 3 weeks in Manhattan 1988, whoever would talk to me. Dressed well, suit, nice tie, matching black belt and shoes. Every single interviewer dumped on me: "no real experience, nobody cares about your degree or what grades you got, you've got nothing to offer." Finally, I bought a $2 bright red necktie from a street vendor, had my shoes shined and went and saw an agent who interviewed me at a glass table. She took a long look at my shoes through that table, then at me, and declared she absolutely could get me a job with (investment banking firm). One glance at my resume: "you do computer stuff, right? They always need computer guys, and you'll fit right in! They're going to love you."

I hate that I know this, but there is this running gag that furries are mostly made up of computer geeks who are in rather advanced positions within different digital fields. Everything from cyber security to CG animation in kids movies.

Local division of a big name company was always advertising in the paper, I applied but they never replied. Once every 6 months or so they'd do an "open interviews night," so I signed up. Sat down with the floor manager, he took one look at my resume and told me: "you don't want to work here. What's your pay, like X?" he was guessing based on my title and experience, he was within 2% "Yeah, I only get 80% of that and I'm the highest paid guy here. We work long hours and the work is both boring and demanding, long hours, unexpected overtime. Your kind of jobs are at our main facility (up north), down here we're basically a sweat shop.

A lot of it is cyclical, hit it at the right time and they'll hire any resume that comes across their desk. The other 90% of the time, yeah, get in line behind the guy that knows a guy...

The internet really messed with things. We put a help-wanted ad in the local paper in 2000, specifically said in the ad "local candidates only" - I received 400+ applications in the first week, ~300 of them from out of town, 20+ of them from other countries. Sorting through the pile (they were still snail-mailed in those days) I came across a local candidate who worked with a company we regularly did business with, had our guy call his ex-manager and asked one question "would you re-hire him if you had the chance?" Answer was yes. We hired him, he was good.

My sincere apologies if your application was in the bottom of the stack and you were better qualified. Life is like that most of the time.

I feel like a lot of people involved in the hiring process are incompetent and shouldn't be there. Like you have HR people who can barely use Word asking if you know Java or JavaScript

"My Dad runs the furry convention"

The suspiciously wealthy and poweful furries support more then the arts. Thank you for your community service my furry and scaley friends. The world truly rests on the shoulders of your suit.

Im sure there is a hidden cost that youre not seeing.

We live under a extrovert dictatorship.

How do you put an opiniom on a resume? Or are you talking cover letter which at least half of hiring managers don't even read?

yeah, pedophilia, indoctrination, cult based on lies, and shame culture that is based on lies and falsehoods. probably more. but child care is so expensive.

Because often, if they can even get it, the "job thats available" is so physically/mentally demanding that job searching while you have the job is untenable. They often dont give leeway for job interviews, so even trying is risking your only source of support for the vague chance of something that might be better.

I'm not really sure if recruiters aren't at the lowest step there.

Furry communities are filled with professionals. With means and time. Do you know how much a furry costume will run you??

Close, your job is to spray free-breeze behind the smelliest attendees

Especially at furry conventions

Do you know how much a furry costume will run you?

Painfully too well. I wish I was rich or a nepobaby 😩

A month after I graduated college I got an interview for a springboot position and I was telling the guy about my springboot project and he was like "we don't actually use springboot here, we use kafka instead" and I was just like wtf. Dude supposedly had 10 years experience as a dev and somehow my fresh out of college ass knew more than him. (Didn't get the job, still unemployed and its been a bit over a year since)

See your problem was knowing how to do the job. You should have focused on knowing Dave. Dave would have got you in.

As someone who briefly worked in recruitment, the amount of people interviewed by people who have no frame of reference for anything about the job requirements is astonishing. Some people may say "but surely not for the high-level positions-" No. Especially for those positions. Because people like owners and c-suites want final say. And guess who knows nothing about these positions. Them. They literally hire presidents and vice-presidents based on vibe. Technical positions see a lot of this, primarily because even a bad interviewee is going to know more about their job than an executive whose primary job is the "idea and vision" guy. Just spit enough jargon, laugh at their jokes and you're in.

For reference, that company had a head of maintenance who as a friend of a friend of the owners. He just delegated the whole time and hit on any woman he found half-attractive. Thought he was just an asshole until I heard that he had honestly asked a production manager which side of a tape measure was the inches and which was the centimeters. Guy gave a visual run-down on how to use a tape measure to him. The head of maintenance. And he said thanks, and that he'd post it in the tool shed for his staff to reference. It became clear that he delegated everything because he literally didn't know about thing about his job. I would be surprised if he could point out a phillip's-head. Apparently he had the same job at a nursing home before that. I shudder to think of why he may have lost that job.

A few months after he got inevitably let go, he delivered my dominoes pizza. I don't look down on jobs like that, but that felt good.

I forgot Monster still existed.

Job platforms so bad that D and E just got yeeted into the shadow realm i guess

there is this running gag that furries are mostly made up of computer geeks who are in rather advanced positions within different digital fields

The joke I heard is that a plane going to a furry convention crashing would cripple the IT industry.