Yes l am still applying online, in Luxembourg of all places; ADEM the national agency instructed me to apply on line... Its been nearly six months ans l am becoming surer by the minute that this job hunt is a waste of time. Something intesting happened today, l applied for an entry level job with Lombard, an insurance company which reprsents itself as a financial services provider. Well within three hours my application was rejected. So l wrote an email stating, that l think it was a fake job offer, and asked whom l had to pay for a job. That is another story in Luxembourg. So Jobs.lu, which is based in Belgium phones my mother, with a blank or hidden phone number and shouted at her, telling her that l should not make idle threats as l would be black listed, and they don't hire arabs, as the phone came from the middle east. This is racist ofcourse, but more concerning, appart from data mining, the nature of the threats. This social media job hunting industry is very sensitive... T
This post starts with a surprise email from Adecco (UK), that "international HR company", and it made me speculate, that all the while, l was looking for work online, l was conversing with Adecco (UK). They contacted me because of regulatory changes. I have had a jaded relationship with online job portals. While l had attempted to "join" Monster from Cyprus in 2012, looking for work, all my job applications never got answered, and l stopped seeking work sometime in late 2013. After the intriguing email, l asked Adecco, l mean l had to beg Adecco to send me my profile. It contained a lot of interesting information, such as how many applications l had made (a lot...), and from where, etc... It was a pretty comprehensive profile. The profile indicated that Adecco (UK) first registered me in 2015, when l began to look for work online, through both several different Belgian and Luxembourgian website, and continued to track me when l went to Scotland, and even rec