The Job Search

This is not fun!! Just thought I would let you all (2 of you) know that from the start. I have no degree, not yet at least, so I can not even get in the door to interview. I have no experience in supervising people, so I can not get in the door to interview. It does not matter that I get my degree in april and I have a 3.92 gpa. It does not matter that I have not learned anything new in my college studies since I have been living this stuff for the past 20+ years. I applied for a manufacturing supervisors postition. I could not even get an interview because I had not supervised people before. I guess my time as a sergeant in the Army taking care of troops does not count as supervision even though I had these kids for 24 hours a day and we were training for war not producing a product. I guess that was awhile ago but they did not even take into consideration that I have worked in high speed manufacturing for the past 19 years. I was a team leader the last year and I carried my supervisor for the past 3 years. I was in charge of quality and NCM in my department. All of this can not get you in the door, but the same guys who cannot make it at one place can go to another and get a job just because they have "experience". People may say that UNIONS have ruined American manufacturing, I say that is a factor but not the factor. HR people who have abandoned common sense for "paperwork" are as much to blame. When I got to Navistar the best supervisors I had were from the floor. The ones that drifted from place to place on "experience" were usually terrible.



OK my rant is done.......have a great day!