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I got terminated from old my job and now looking for a new job. Please help!?

Question by peatuhacs: I got terminated from old my job and now looking for a new job. Please help!?
I got terminated from my old job as a geological software support geologist 6 months ago. I was in my old job for about a year and a half. The reason for my termination was poor performance. There are 2 reasons for my poor performance.

1) Although I like geology and I am a geologist I did not really enjoy working in a customer service kind of enviroment. My old job was more like helping clients troubleshoot the problems they had with the geological software that my previous employer creates and sells to the clients. Having said that, I did like some aspect of the job: using the software to build geological models, helping other people once in a while, traveling etc. And I did try to see the positive side of the job although I wish I could actually use the software to work with geological models rather than teach someone else (clients) how to use the software.

2) I was dealing with some personal issues at the time of my termination. I had issues I needed to deal with regarding my sexuality and I knew that it was affecting my performance at work. At one point, I told work about my issues and HR arranged for me to meet with a counselor on a regular basis which I did.

One day my issues got hold of me and I decided to not come to work. I call my boss and let me know and he was fine with it. But then I also stayed away from work the next two days without letting my boss knows. and that triggered the termination.

So the two main causes of poor performances were: not really happy with job and having personal issues that were affecting my performance. In the end I got fired.

Now I am trying to apply for new jobs in the oil and gas industry and also related fields like mining and exploration but I don’t know what to do. I have lost confidence in myself and I dwell on my termination. I have updated my resume but I am scared if they interviewer ask me about my old job and why I left. I don’t know what to say and how to tackle this. Should I tell the truth and say I was terminated for poor performance? and if so how could I still make the interviewer believe that I still have the potential to be a good, reliable employee dispite my job termination. Should I just don’t include the job in my resume?

Any advice would be appreciated. I really need a job and I want to be able to succeed in my future job applications regardles of having been terminated for poor performance.

Hear from you soon.

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Answer by Mike
Tell the truth at JOB INTERVIEW, not on the resume or cover letter, because if you do, you will not get interviews. Leave out bad and focus on good. If asked at an interview, you MUST tell the truth because if you lie and they find out, you will be terminated for that.

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How long should I expect to wait to hear from a job after applying for it?

Question by bellabri287: How long should I expect to wait to hear from a job after applying for it?
I applied for a job in Craigslist.com, I sent my resume in a reply to the job posting. How long do you think I should expect to wait to hear back from them?
it is a personal assitant job not for a corperation
oh, and i have been applying for other job i just am realy intrested in this one

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Answer by spnkitman
If you don’t hear back with in a few days then you most likely will not hear back at all.

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How to push a job offer from a second company after getting your first offer?

Question by VGP: How to push a job offer from a second company after getting your first offer?
I had interviewed with my first choice company about a month ago. My gut feeling is that I will get it. But during the wait, I got a chance to interview with another small company and they gave me the offer within a week. I have asked for 4 days time to get back with my decision.The second company is good but I have to somehow get an official offer from my first choice company to decide judiciously. Do I tell about this offer to the 1st company and expedite their decision? Who do I contact, my prospective manager or the HR manager? I do not want to turn them off by coming off as a big shot with other offers in hand. However a months’ time is long and they promised to get back last week.
Please respond ASAP of you have any thoughts on this.

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Answer by da dude
I would just take the offer…before you loose both! This isn’t Deal or No Deal!

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Can i just trasfer selected credits from university to community college?

Question by Bently Slick: Can i just trasfer selected credits from university to community college?
Can i just trasfer selected credits from university to community college?
I graduated from college with a business degree from a university and i wish to be a pharmacist now for several reasons.. but the question i have is can i just transfer selected credits from the university to the community college. I want to transfer selected credits because my overall gpa when i graduated was 2.9 and i wish to transfer gen eds, english and other pre reqs that pharmacy school requires not the finance classes in which i did horrible on. and then just take the science requirments for pharm school.

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Answer by CoachT
Usually not – you don’t decide what transfers, the receiving college does.

If you go to a community college to get an AS in a science – very many (more than half) of your BA/BS courses won’t transfer because they don’t apply to the degree program. In this way, you will have eliminated some of your classes from the BA/BS and that alone when added to the new science classes may raise your GPA.

That said, when you apply to Pharm school, they will expect to see your BA/BS transcripts too – they’re going to know how you did. Your goal now should be to raise the collegiate cummulative GPA by doing very well on those science courses at the CC.

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Scorpio male just doesnt stop confusing me. What does he want from me?

Question by Breezey: Scorpio male just doesnt stop confusing me. What does he want from me?
For seven months, I have been involved in a casual relationship with a Scorpio male. He has always said he doesn’t want a serious relationship because they always end in fire and flames, he doesn’t want a gf, and he’s been hurt in the past and therefore now he is putting himself first and doesnt want to have to worry about anyone else’s feelings. (We dated for one month, but he backed off when it started to get too serious for him.) We sleep together and I stay over at his place, and sometimes we hold hands when we’re out in public together. We usually see eachother every weekend. He cuddles up to me when we’re in bed and asks me to make a fuss of him by stroking his back (his favourite thing). On two occasions now he has gotten drunk and said things to me which imply he likes me beyond just sex. For example, the first time he said “We could work out/ You’re my gf really, aren’t you/ We’re a great match/ I want you to be my girl but I dont trust you/ I’m jealous of other guys you’ve been with”. Then when I asked him about it he said there was truth in it, but it’s not realistic cause he still doesnt want a committment. Now I should tell you that when this scorpio left me (before we embarked on a casual relationship) I rebounded with someone else. So I have a bf but I’m in love with this scorpio male and just cant keep away from him (he knows I have a bf). On one occasion i couldnt answer his calls cause i was with my bf, and he got really pissed off when i didnt answer and said “whats the point when you never answer anymore. I feel like you are dissing me. I suppose he is your bf” and then when i said i missed him he said “yeah right, you have your bf to keep you company” and was sober at that time. When he’s sober he says he’s not jealous of the bf, but then he goes and gets drunk again, and starts acting jealous. This time he said “You would make the perfect gf, and I’d love to have you as a gf, but if I was unable to give you the amount of attention you require, you’d go to someone else. This is why you have me and your bf, cause you require alot of attention. And I am close to being a bf”. When i told him i have wanted him for the past 7 months and i am with this other guy cause he left me he said “i didnt leave you”. He went on to say he’d be scared of hurting me if i was his gf, and also that he knows i need a sensitive guy who can give me lots of attention, and he knows he’s not good at that. He said “I make a sh** bf. I dont want a gf, most women I generally dislike”-he was burned in his last relationship. He said he’s surprised that i still hang around with him as he consumes alot of alcohol and drugs. And to be honest, this is the kinda guy I would usually stay away from, but i cant. when we used to date, for the first two weeks i was with him he was all over me and soooo sweet, until things got too scary for him and he left me just cause i was getting too clingy and he only wanted to worry about himself and put himself first. He also told me that I turn him on like no other woman has. I do know he isnt in love with me cause he said so. Maybe it’s cause of his dislike for women and not allowing himself to. He is 29 and I’m 22, and his last gf left him as soon as he lost his job, his car and went bankrupt. He refused to call me his gf during the month we were dating, and kept telling me to go with the flow and have fun and see where it leads. But I kept questionning cause I couldnt bare to think i might be wasting time with him for nothing. He even introduced me to his parents back then. So anyway, when he’s drunk he says thinks which make it seem as though he wants more…He also said that maybe in a few years he will regret the fact that he didnt keep me. Would this guy have stayed with me casually for so long if he only wanted sex? What does it seem like he wants to you guys?

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Answer by Boo B
im a scoprio and i love sex,so he would probably just hit you and quit you.

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How to stop old employers from bad-mouthing and prevent new ones from asking damning questions in interviews?

Question by freethinker1973: How to stop old employers from bad-mouthing and prevent new ones from asking damning questions in interviews?
I work in Pharmacy and Hospital Pharmacists all know each other. I applied at a hospital in VA after quitting a hospital in DC. The DC hospital gave me no other option but to resign without notice because they would not accomodate me on child care issues. 7 months later, I applied at a VA hospital and one of the pharmacists from the DC hospital worked in both places, and the pharmacist bad mouthed me to the VA director of Pharmacy, who made me come in for two humiliating, degrading interviews. In the second interview, she mentioned that someone had bad mouthed me and dangled the job in front of my face, essentially saying that I’d be “lucky” to be given a “second chance”. I know VA is a right-to-work state, but I know DC is not allowed to say such things. Was the pharmacist who worked in both places breaking the law? Was the director of pharmacy at the VA hospital breaking the law? Do I have any legal recourse, either for a civil lawsuit, or a gag order to silence both parties?

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Answer by Mac Boswell
You right on both counts,1st can’t ask more than did you work theire and last can’t tell how bad you are at the job. But good luck proving it in you civil case.

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