My parents keep insisting I need to travel in person to Maryland to do some door-to-door job hunting up there.
See, Florida is still a weak job market. Even at 8 percent or so that's statewide, but even higher around the Tampa Bay area where I'm at.
Maryland is a better job market - roughly 6 percent, with larger businesses - but there's the costs of going up there in person. Sure, I have family up there as well, but I can't stay there forever while I hunt for work.
The thing is, in this day and age everything is done via computers and resume submissions. I've been taught via the local career center, informed by Human Resource personnel giving speeches about how to put in for jobs, and figured through my own experiences job hunting that going in-person and handing over a resume doesn't impress anymore. Every HR has an application process you HAVE to fill out, and that's mostly done online anymore.
But the other thing is, I'm at that point in the job-hunting process - unemployment benefits long gone, for one - that I'm desperate for a full-time job. And while I've had more interviews this year than before - for library openings, for a handful of tech jobs - and while I do have a contractual will-call (it's like part-time) work with a desktop support firm, I'm still not getting any full-time job offers around here in Florida.
And the other other thing is, this is December. Holiday season. Odds of HR people off on vacations: pretty high.
If there's anything I can go and do would be attending job fairs: places where HR people do sit there and accept resumes by hand. They may still require an application be filled, but at least you speak to someone and have a means of impressing right away.
So I gotta ask: for anyone in the know in Maryland / DC area, are there any Job Fairs going on this month of December that an experienced librarian / desktop support computer tech can get a decent chance of handing out resumes? Please let me know in the comments field. Thanks!
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