The Governement Job Fair….

I went to a government job fair today.  Now from what I know, I knew that a lot of people of be there.  With the rise of unemployment and layoffs I knew to get their early.  Well, I got their around 15 minutes before it was going to start and not to my surprise the line almost went around the building. Was was to my surprise was when I got in there how the job fair went.

I have been at plenty of job fairs for private sectors and at least you can leave a resume.  This was not the case at this fair.  Let me just paint a picture….in a little hall area there were all of the public sectors with their cards, papers and candy. A lot of people (as like myself) brought resumes.  Oh no. They didn’t want that.  They just wanted to tell you that you needed to go on the Internet to apply for jobs and some of them just gave out information and they had not jobs available at this time.  WHAT!!!!!! Why are they even here.  The place was packed with potential and desperate people trying to get in a government job hoping that would be the most stable place to work at this time.  I wouldn’t say that is was a waste of time, but very disappointing.  I kept on hearing people in a state of confusion.  Perfume, cologne coming off of hot bodies and sweaty suits trying to find a way in and out of the place and to figure out was it better for them to have stayed at home and just applied in the first place.  I spoke to a couple of women that were at the job fair and they were as disappointed and confused as I was.  Well, I did what everyone does at a job fair…get papers, free pens, business cards and did a couple of hand shakes to find that it was time to go.  Then when I was leaving I just felt a feeling to tell everyone what happened in there and that they should just go home.  Oh well, they should have been there a little earlier.  That was not my say to tell them how much a waste of time it was for me….let them determine that.  At least (hopefully) I have a job to go to on Monday.  I bet many of those people that were in line didn’t have a job to go to.  That is why they were in the line.  I was just “testing the waters” and predicting that this economy is going to get worse and since I am working at this time in a small private sector business that has been fairly has had customers that have been impacted by the economy that they had to close down their own doors, that it may be something that is also happening at my place of business. 

If getting a job with the government was as unorganized as that job fair, there may be a problem with getting just a toe in the door.