Today I came across a job for a "wellness associate" for a rather large grocery store chain. This seemed to be a real wellness job working with employees, not a sales person selling vitamins. So I decided to fill in the long online job application. The job application took "forever" to complete, or so it seemed. It must have taken me 2 hours to complete the application, even with my resume uploaded. Half way through the application, it asked, "Are you willing to work 45 - 55 hours per week? What, as a wellness associate? Well, of course I put "yes." Then question by question went by and I felt rather competent for the job. Then I came across questions about my computer skills. In general my computer skills are quite good. But then they asked a question about my experience with a program I had never even heard of. Well, that didn't seem too good. I have full confidence that I can learn a new program, but there was no place for comments, so I could not add any reassurance of my abilities to learn. I had no choice but to put that I was at a 0 in regards to competency in my skill level for that unfamiliar program. That was frustrating. The question came near the end of the 2 hours I had spent filling in the application. That probably knocked me out of the running. So far, I have heard nothing, zip, not-ta from the company. I tried to go backwards in the application to find a place where I could state something to the fact that I was capable of learning any new computer program not yet learned, but no where to be seen was a place to go back and edit any of my previous comments.
That was a bit disappointing, because it was actually a fairly good paying job, and I believe I would have been capable of doing a good job, with a bit of training in my weak areas.
Oh well, the job search goes on.
Emma Faye
My job search diary.
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