I really desperately need a job right now and I'm not even getting interviews at fast food places.
It's really starting to look like I'm going to have to just lie my way into having a better resume. I have no moral problem with this, but I'm worried I'll be asked to verify things. I did some volunteer work for a library when I was in high school one summer. This was like five years ago. Would I have any problem if I extended that couple months out to a couple years?
Mostly I'm worried they'll call the library themselves to verify. It seems unlikely to me that they would still have a record of this, but I'm not sure.
The thing is I can't drive, so I'm very limited in what I can actually apply to. I haven't found anything like that on indeed within a 45 minute bus ride that I have the qualifications for.
i'd bet you anything this is what's fucking you.
"do you have reliable transportation?" i.e "do you drive and own a car" is a big one for a lot of places
Maybe it'll fuck me when I get an actual interview, but I answer yes to the reliable transportation question on applications. I'm never specifically asked if I have a car.
this is why i'm not a gambling woman. in that case i can't imagine what could be going wrong, to the point where i'm inclined to think it's something related to the businesses and not necessarily something you can control for. i've heard anecdotally that a lot of places are advertising that they're hiring but are not actually doing so. maybe that's happening where you live?
well at any rate, i wish you good luck finding something. idk if it's a possibility for you but online call center gigs might be a viable route?
Thanks for the help. I'm also having trouble figuring out why exactly this is happening. I have no arrest record, literally nothing comes up when I google my name other than social media pages belonging to people with the same surname.
In the OP I said I believe it's something about my resume, but a ton of people have told me you don't need a resume for fast food. So I've tried applying to a few fast food places without any resume at all and still no bites. It's getting maddening and I have no idea what to do.
Call center work is something I want to do even less than fast food, but it's starting to look like that's all that's left to try before a literal back breaking manual labor job
Can't drive either. Yeah it fucks you, a huge number of jobs list a license as a requirement even if there is no reason that'd ever be the case. If you can it's probably the biggest thing for boost employability and if you can't, there's always lying.
45 minutes seems... optimistic though. Especially if you don't live near the center of a city. I've never had a commute less than an hour by public transport except when I've been WFH (like now).