Cold calling for jobs: My experience this Wednesday

Has anyone else out there been doing cold calls for jobs?

My situation is up in there air but today I cold-called 11 places, hotel chains mainly to ask if they had any work going.

When I asked the receptionist, it was 50/50 as to whether or not there were jobs going. I was then referred to the Personnel dept for one call and that’s when I started asking to be referred to Personnel.

Of the 11 calls I made today:

….Only 1 had an active vacancy that they were recruiting for, which was a part-time hotel reception position.

What do you think of cold calling for jobs? Is  it a bit of a fools errand to do so … or can you really find work this way?

–Aulelia desperate for the job hunt!

Still Jobless

Who thought finding a job was this much of an effort?

I am struggling to find work and I don’t even know where the next payslip is coming from.

I am going to Sweden for a family function from the 22 Nov until 29 Nov. The living situation is still hard to define and describe as I am still not back home.

I have no money, no job and my mum says she can’t help me financially anymore.

It’s a hard situation so please forgive me for keeping the blog scarce.

Once I get my life back on track, Charcoal will be back. Until then, I will post when I can.

Falling in Love…

My living situation is still up in the air, but one thing I am trying hard to concentrate on is vox, the careers site I created for my MA project.

Don’t they say that once one part of your life goes wrong (my living situation), one part can cheer up.

I think that this is incredibly true (well as of recently). It has been such a struggle to keep vox afloat and I have to pay hosting charges next week by Sunday and I have £0. But it is still my passion! The thing that is wicked that has happened is I got a few PRs interested in doing this survey I have done and I just am pushing so hard to make the survey a success. Information is the key to knowledge and that is one aim I am trying to push forward with my careers website.

The one thing that I need to work on more is not thinking about people’s bad reactions too much. I had one PR who wasn’t too friendly to me concerning a particular issue. It made me a little upset and I spoke to my friends about it and they were like, don’t get upset about it.

My current plan for now is to finish distributing the survey and pass it on to other PRs so I can put it up on vox.

I don’t know whether vox will be a success but I know I am in love with it and I am desperate for it to succeed. And you know what love is like, it is all consuming.

Black Hair: Beyoncé takes 25 Wigs on UK Leg of ‘I Am…’ Tour

Picture from Daily Mail - B out in LDN last night

My girl Bee is the shit.

I love this bishette. According to the Daily Mail, Beyoncé packed 25 wigs for the tour [1].

I don’t know who the source is but I can believe that lol because she has so many set pieces for the tour.

How many wigs do you think the avg black woman owns? I don’t own any wigs.

I love Bee to the end, but I’d love to see her venture outside the blonde look. It would be cute.

and how AMAZING does Bee sound on GaGa’s Telephone remix? Get it, Beyoncétte! I love the marching drums in the track, which you can hear at Necole Bitchie.

[1] – I am so jealous that I couldn’t go again to see her. Boo!

Coal News: Bullying made first female Beefeater at the Tower go BALD

I find it shocking and flabbergasting that the first female Beefeater employed at the Tower of London was actually bullied.

And to make matters worse, she developed alopecia as a stress related disease due to the bullying.

What would you do if this was your mum or sister?

Moira Cameron is now suing for harassment and bullying and good on her. She was treated appallingly by these some male Beefeater who objected to having a woman work at the Tower as a Beefeater.

Oh and after 522 years, you have to have served in the Armed Forces for at least 20 years before you can be a Beefeater.

2 of the men have been suspended for alledgely defacing her uniform and leaving nasty, intimidating notes for her at work.

Bale of Straws: Why Verbal Bullying is Always Wrong

This is how it happened.

The final straw came last week when I was sitting in my sitting room on the computer.

What Really Happened

Wow, everyone it was a roller-coaster week.

It took me a long time to realise that I have been a victim of a bully. It was a shocking thing, which I will explain soon.

I am currently with friends as I look to get this situation sorted out.

If any of you read the stamped posts or any password posts,  I will write up what exactly happened with that same password.

I hope you are all well and safe

This is too cute: Bee is a bad Bishette!

In cheerful news, my girl Bee is happy to call out her husband in her speeches! Too cute — it’s at the 5:00 minute mark.

and who’s legs are seriously better than hers? No one’s!

Important Notice: Hiatus due to Verbal Abuse

Something has happened to me emotionally where I have been the victim of a campaign of verbal and emotional abuse.

I cannot go into too much detail but it is related to my living situation.

I have alerted my mother to the news. I will not be blogging as I am no longer living at my flat for the time being. I am staying with a friend until the end of the week and I will stay with another friend for next week.

I am sorry for this hiatus but it is beyond my control as I will not be sleeping at home for a while now due to my flatmate’s campaign of bullying and verbal abuse.

I will be back soon.

–a

Did Anyone Read The ESSENCE Roundtable discussion with Solo & Nia?

I was in Borders today and in the UK, the latest issue of ESSENCE is the one with Nia Long on the cover.

There was an interesting roundtable discussion which included Solo Knowles, Nia of course and the stunning Tanika Ray, as well as Mikki Taylor, Tonya Lewis, Ursula Stephens (Rihanna’s hairdresser) & another lady called Ledisi.