Kelly Kinney has been out of work for two months despite her two bachelor’s degrees. But Kinney isn’t one to play the victim. When paper resumes didn’t work, she put hers on post cards. When that didn’t work, she put it on a T-shirt.
Kinney, a Santa Clarita resident, was in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, walking the streets wearing her resume T-shirt with extra copies of her resume on hand. She also wears her resume to the supermarket and the mall – to anyplace, in fact, where she might get a job tip. Her employment search is frustrating but she maintains a smile and realizes there are forces outside her control that keep her from getting a job. “It’s the economy definitely,” she said.
Kinney should know. One of her bachelor’s degrees is in economics.
“The job market is oversaturated. We created jobs that we didn’t need and got rid of jobs we needed. It’s going to take some time for the economy and job market to correct,” Kinney said. Kinney, 29, moved to Santa Clarita in October 2007, running from winter weather in Dayton, Ohio. She kept her job as a marketing manager for Rexarc International, a manufacturing company. Her job allowed Kinney to work remotely for one year. She expected that she would find a new job within that year. Three years of experience and her education proved to be a scarlet letter at interviews, Kinney said. “Sometimes I’m overqualified. Sometimes I’m under-qualified,” said the holder of a bachelor’s degree in marketing.
The idea itself sounds like a good small business opportunity.
>>Kinney, a Santa Clarita resident, was in
>>downtown Los Angeles on Monda, walking the
>>streets wearing her…..
Hey! Monda? Isn’t Monda a pagan holiday? No wonder she can’t get a job. It must be anti-wiccan discrimination.
Send on to Bush, he’ll need it soon !!! (And may get you a trip to the White House !!!)
If we had operations in California, I would definitely give her an interview.
With that kind of determination and inspiration, she should be a good worker.
“Sometimes I’m overqualified. Sometimes I’m under-qualified,”
And all the time you’re doing a poor job during the interviews if those are the answers you’re getting.
Sorry, I can’t resist.
Kinney, 29, moved to Santa Clarita in October 2007, running from winter weather in Dayton, Ohio. She kept her job as a marketing manager for Rexarc International, a manufacturing company. Her job allowed Kinney to work remotely for one year. She expected that she would find a new job within that year.
Sounds like being unemployed is the cause of her own actions. Running from winter weather? I wouldn’t hire her knowing that.
McCullough, what do you mean by: “The idea itself sounds like a good small business opportunity.” /// What idea? Putting resumes on tee-shirts? Think that thru one more time. The fact that she hasn’t gotten a job from that approach is almost irrelevant to the multiple obvious faults of this as a real attempt at getting a job herself, or having a business connected to it in any way.
Unless I missed your point?
I been there before. Send out resume’s to NULL.. I even put my name on somebody’s outstanding resume just to see I never hear back from any place.
“Kelly Kinney” looks more like Tish Hinojosa
http://tinyurl.com/5snq6f
than an Irish girl from Dayton, OH. Maybe she’s falling victim to anti-Hispanic hysteria.
“Running from winter weather in Dayton, Ohio.”
The weather there is not so bad. But considering the crime, government waste and corruption, lack of jobs, etc., she had these many other good reasons to leave. That shows common sense.
If a minority woman like that can’t get a job in affirmative action rules corporate america, then she must be terrible.
#6. bobbo- Really? Look at all the free publicity she is getting as we speak. From this blog alone she will reach 30 to 35,000 people in one day. I predict this woman will be employed soon. Do you really think being unemployed for two months is a long stretch?
#11 – McC
>>From this blog alone she will reach 30 to
>>35,000 people in one day.
Yeah, but anyone from this blog who’s interested in her will look her up using The Google, and they will find (“Kelly Kinney” and “Santa Clarita”) a total of three articles about her, including this dvorak dot org slash blog post, and the linked-to article in the-signal dot com. Even the obvious kellykinney.com is, currently available, unused other than as a “parking” site. Waiting for her to get with the program, I guess.
For a young woman with two college degrees, she sure doesn’t have much of a presence on the web. Christ, even *I* get more hits than that using my pseudonym, even when you disregard condiment-related nonsense like tinyurl.com/58abs9 !! And I get a lot more than three hits even using my real name.
Hmmm.
“Overqualified” is a BS reason to turn someone down!
I hire “overqualified” applicants because I want the best people I can get. Then I give them all the challenges they can handle.
They get an interesting job that allows them to use their talents, which they like. I get great people who bring a lot to the company. They know they are appreciated, and they usually stay longer than the avarage employee.
Everybody wins.
PS – Money is the first consideration in a new job; but it’s not the only, or even the most, important thing.
Anyone who has taken a new job with great pay, then a few months later couldn’t stand the “working conditions” (boss, people, whatever), has learned that the money is not the most important thing.
#11–McCullough==YOU said this sounded like the basis for a good business which doesn’t make sense to me.
Is putting “I Need a Job” on a tee-shirt a good way to get a job?==No. ((As the article says==its an act of desperation.))
Is getting noticed on Dvorak a good way to get a job?==I don’t know, but doubt it per Mustards critique.
In short==what business are you thinking of?
Absent being a totally hot babe looking to be a stripper, putting things on tee-shirts is not recommended.
But keep us advised on how many inquiries she gets? How do I contact her again? My wife slaps me silly when she catches me staring at women’s tits.
#14. I have to spell it out for you?== The business is providing unique ways to put your resume out there, like the T-shirt idea. In fact I run a side business in consulting==I could ==advertise==it on T shirts== and give the shirts away==it’s just marketing right? My only hope is that panhandlers==dont get ==wind of this.
As a former business owner, I like her initiative and I happen to like the T-shirt idea, but I could be wrong. It was just a thought, so == don’t get crazy on me.
Damn==now==you got me== doin it==it’s like a god damned tic==or something.
#15 – McC
==AARRRGHHHH!!== // ==NOOOOOOOOooooo!==
Not the ==effing== Bobbonian /==PUNCTUATION==\
#13 – Stu
>>“Overqualified” is a BS reason to turn
>>someone down!
Weeellll, I don’t know about that. I’ve never not hired someone for being overqualified, but the most common response to an overqualified applicant is “wtf is somebody with those qualifications doing applying for this job??”
I HAVE known people who, in tough times, phonied up their résumés to cover up the fact that they had a PhD or MS, because nobody would hire them for a shitty job, assuming (perhaps correctly) that they would jump ship as soon as a job commensurate with their experience came along.
Check the job and give different resumes to different posts.
Did I miss the part that says what her other degree was? I suspect that a lot of people with degrees in marketing are going to be less employed in the future, as the market bleeds dry. And what’s an Economics degree good for? For teaching it to someone else, most likely. Like having a degree in French Literature.
Maybe the Internet age has just made these sort of avocations redundant. Colleges don’t tell people that there’s no more use for what they’re teaching. They just keep the scam going for as long as possible. There use to be a huge “need” for engineers in the US. Or at least that’s what they said. But then many foreign engineers came here on work visas, and manufacturing got outsourced to China and India. And bust went the employment of those new US engineering students. But the colleges didn’t tell them. And their officers didn’t go to Congress and complain about the foreigners screwing their job placement.
Maybe we should adopt Fiji’s system of refusing immigration of foreigners, who don’t supply a unique skill. They probably only permit one such person, just to teach that skill to the rest of their citizens, and then shut out the profession to all foreigners, after that.
#16 Mustard – Sort==of==feels==good.
Give==it==a==try.
That’s pretty clever.