Anyone use the Job Service at Eastern APA?

[squid]

Since I had no interviews, I skipped the whole thing. Just wondering if I missed anything.

[x]

There were 10 or so places accepting applications on-site. I'm not sure how many people actually landed any interviews that way, but it seemed like a whole hell of a lot of people were trying to.

[superawesome]

I never got the placement service stuff over and above providing suite #s. There are almost never any new job postings, so presumably, most people are submitting CVs for jobs that they have already applied for. Is the rationale that "Hey, maybe they will like me enough to give me an interview even though less than a month ago they didn't like me enough to give me an interview"? The whole thing has a pretty pungent stink to it.

[marketerr]

I tried. what a load of unhelpful crap. First you wait in a really long line, without fully knowing what will happen at the other end of the line. You finally get up there, you get a numbered folder that no one will ever look into, and then you *don't* get information about where your interview the next morning is. Even though you saw one of your interviewers go into the room for interviewers, while you were standing in line, and provide that information to someone in the adjoining room. Eventually you just call the cell phone of the contact person you were given and ask, and then wonder why you spent an hour in line when you could have called in the first place.

seriously. way to go, APA, way to be even less useful than usual.

[anonymous]

Were there any new jobs announced at the placement office? (By "new jobs" I mean jobs which weren't announced in the JFP web ads, CHE, Higher Ed jobs, etc.).

I was at the APA but didn't use the placement office, in part, because of its unhelpful reputation. (And I suppose 'unhelpful' is a bit of an understatement for those candidates who were wrongly informed that their interviews had been canceled). I wonder how many other candidates skipped it for that reason.