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Pa17325 t1_j6qkk86 wrote

Career link is utterly useless, both as a job seeker and being an employer with positions to fill

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artificialavocado t1_j6rq7a9 wrote

They do their best but I never found them all that helpful. I feel like the commonwealth is making them as much enforcers of UC as they are employment counselors. I went there during the 2008 recession after just finishing college and the guy told me I was “unemployable” because I couldn’t do construction or any kind of hard, repetitive manual labor.

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Pa17325 t1_j6s3kiy wrote

I have never, not once in 15 years, had one applicant for the jobs we posted on career link.

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artificialavocado t1_j6s4loc wrote

In the late 90’s/early 2000’s there were places around here that only did applications (paper) through careerlink. I guess they figured it was better than having people showing up in their offices. I guess now people figure most bigger places have a link right on the website. I haven’t used careerlink since 2008 but I don’t think I ever got a call from somewhere that I put the app in through them so I stopped using it.

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Assistant_Proper t1_j7r51ym wrote

So I have to apply for jobs every week with career link as a requirement? What if you don’t like the jobs , can u just apply to whatever jobs and just not accept them ?

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