Dirty, Sexy, Money.

August 2nd, 2009

Great Article from Study Breaks Magazine here in Austin. So how do you avoid the job application and job search completely? Step 1. Start your own business.

UT Honors Student Cleans Her Way to $10,000 in three months. Job requires thigh highs, a feather duster and a sexy smile.

Plan II honors requires its students to submit a resume every year. Last year, under “work experience,” I listed myself as the owner of a cleaning service. Job responsibilities included advertising in all markets, scheduling appointments, managing the company’s budget, developing and maintaining positive relationships with all clients, and scrubbing toilets while wearing thigh-high stockings and stilettos Read the rest of this entry »

Doorguy Confidential

July 5th, 2009

One of my favorite free zines here in Austin, Texas called Misprint had run a great article on how to obtain and work your way too door guy ’success.’ So if you ever thought of joining the ranks of Austin’s bars, check out the article below. More at their site www.MisPrintMagazine.com

Doorguy Confidential

There are tons of extra jobs out there: astronaut, crane operator, pilot of a semi-submersible drug smuggling mini sub. But while these second careers might seem glamorous, the real trick is to find a job that minimizes effort while maximizing free booze and the fawning of flexible, drunk girls who easily forget their boyfriends. You might assume this dream job is a “bartender” but you’re wrong. Who wants to do that much cocaine? Instead, aim lower. Way, way lower. Here’s a few tips to back your way into that second-choice job of your mediocre dreams: doorman.

Getting a Foot in the Door.
The person who hires you does not care about your degree in urban planning or the number iphone apps you’ve written. They care about exactly two things: your service industry experience and how long it will take before your develop a crippling drug habit and start forgetting to come to work. Since this job requires no skills whatsoever, there’s no harn in lying your ass off about both. Pad out your resume with experience at unfondly-remembered local institutions like the Whiskey Bar and the Ritz. Read the rest of this entry »

The Infamous Job Application

June 1st, 2009

Retail associates, restaurant gigs, cleaning crews,  customer service reps, door guys, waitresses, cashiers, office clerks, bussers, supervisors, bartenders, rent-a-cops, baggers, cooks, janitors, stockers all received the job the same way: a job application.

A job application is one of the most simplest things to understand. It’s a form that connects job seekers to employers. As for employers, they need to send the application to as many job seekers as possible. As for job seekers, they need to fill out as many as they can for employers. Why? Options. The more options one has, the more opportunities one gets. It’s so simple and easy to understand, yet, still everyone fails.

Employers have to advertise their applications, which takes time and money. The job seekers have too rip themselves away their homework, friends, video games, girlfriends, family to hit the pavement searching for these applications; taking time. Neither sides have the resources nor energy to connect. It’s hard to blame them. Employers have a business to run and job seekers have a life.

As the problem gets bigger, both sides just try to ‘get by’ in hopes someone will save them. Some solutions have come to the internet only too fall short on promises and revert back to old methods. Charging employers money they don’t have(Craig!) and giving job seekers the old run around.

As job seekers and evangelists to employers, we have created PlugApp.com.

We want to take this opportunity, our first blog entry, to invite employers, job seekers, the ridiculous amount of people that hate their current jobs, the media, students, slackers, haters, and the people that are just trying to make ends meet too to join us here at Plug App. As we grow into the years ahead, don’t hesitate to hold us accountable for our mistakes. It’s you that are going to keep us grounded and help maintain an easier, faster, and better way to new jobs!

Cheers to your new jobs!

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