Hello. Well if they are so seecret about how to get a job i wouldn't even bother with them.
> 19 mar 2015 kl. 20:01 skrev Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com>: > > First off, this isn't a complaint, nor is it a drama rant, as much as it's > just something that really has me a bit unsettled. So don't worry. If > you're not for reading, excuse the language, bitch session mail, then don't > worry! I promise that is not at all the nature of the following message. I > cross my heart, so please just hear me out on this. > > I was eating breakfast this morning with both my grandmother and a very very > dear friend of mine who is a next door neighbor. We all three got to talking > about the job industry and how with my expertees, and with my level of > technical skills when it comes to Apple products both from an accessibility > standpoint as well as just in general, how I really probably could be a major > benefit to the Apple user consumer market. > > I confess that I have considered employment through Apple several times > before, but I guess I never really took it all that seriously. I mean, I > did, but I didn't. Anyway, long story short, I got to thinking about our > discussion once I got back home. the more I thought about it, the more I > realized that they are right. I really could! make a difference, most likely. > > So, I started brainstorming what department would I probably do the best at, > and do I feel needs a team leader as myself. Naturally, the more I thought > about it, the more I kept coming back to the Accessibility department. > > So, I finally said, ok, I'm going to give Apple Accessibility a call, and > just see what exactly the criteria would be. Obviously, I'd have to move > either to Austin or somewhere in Calafornia. That goes without saying. I'd > very much be willing to do either, if it meant me getting hiered. > > So, I called and, ironically, got another gentlemen named Chris... go figure. > Anyway, this is what bothers me big time! I asked him what the criteria > is. He was incredibly, and I do mean incredibly! cryptic. He really > wouldn't go into even the slightest bit of detail. He basically said, I'm > not authorized to tell you this information. I'm like, ok, I'm not asking > for you to give me the whole novel rundown. I'm only asking from a very > general standpoint. Obviously, I'd have to transfer my geographic location > to where one of the call centers are... that's inevitable. He's just like, > well, yeah? You would... I'm like, ow'w'w, kayyy? and... what about > training? I presume that I'd be required to get several weeks worth of > training, wouldn't I? He's like, that, I cannot go into. I told him, OK, > sir? I live in North Carolina. If it wind up being Calafornia that I have > to move to, that is almost all the way on the other side of the country. > Granted, I wouldn't move until I knew if I'd get the job, but still... that > would be quite a huge lifechanging commitment. Especially moving away from > all of my family loved ones, etc. He's like, OK, well, sir, I can't tell ya. > I'm sorry. I asked him, then, who can. He said, I dunno. I'm not at > liberty to say. I asked him why such the discrete nature. All I'm asking is > generally how to start the process, no more no less. If he cannot tell me, > then please tell me someone who can. > > He continued to be extremely vague. Finally, after a little bit of sweet > talking, he finally ever so slightly mellowed up and told me, OK, look. You > have to first be employed through Apple as just a standard advisor. Then, > eventually, you'd be promoted up to Senior Advisor level whereby you'd then > get onboard with the Accessibility Support team. I told him that made sense. > I asked him, ok, then, no wonder you're a little secretive, as I'm not > onboard with Apple right now, let alone a Senior Advisor, so you can't! > really talk to me about how to become one. So... let's go another avenue. > How do I become an Apple Advisor employ in general. Again, uh, sir, I really > am not supposed to tell you. I'm like, then D*** it? how do people get > hiered by you guys! If you won't tell them where to go, or how to get > started with the application process, I mean, yeah, there is > > http://cooljobs.apple.com > > but that still doesn't really answer my question. I don't want to work for a > company who is so quiet about their employmentship process. I'm sorry, but > that's just ridiculous! > > Apple has always been very secretive. If it's the whole public seed betas of > OSX, it's public! It's free! Anyone! can sign up! So what the blue flying > heck! What's the point of NDA with that type of setup. Fine! If you don't > wanna tell me, I'll just sign up myself, and then find out the NDA stuff for > myself. I get! NDA. I get! confidentiality legistics, but give! me a! > freaking! break for god sake! If it's not that, it's Apple being very quiet > about their job offerings. If it's not that, it's them not wanting to tell > me what cities have call centers, or if I could work with a hardware/soft sip > phone from home connected to a PBX system logged into their queue. It's just > one quiet thing after another. > > What about the other day when all ICloud based services went down for over > 60% of the whole day? I could be wrong, and if I am, forgive me, but I don't > think to this very day! they've disclosed to the public even on very very > general terms their explaination for why they went down. I can tell you now, > my local newstalk radio station was p?... owed. I mean, the least! they > could a done is given us a very very terse, general! reason for the downtime. > Again, it's not like I'm asking for the full in Paul Harvy's words... rest > of the story... > > So what gives? Does anyone know not so much how! to get hiered as an > advisor, but more what the requirements are to be so? I don't speak of, have > no criminal background, have a drug free resulted drugscreening test. Duh! > I know all that! I'm not that far gone. I'm saying more from a technical > standpoint, what is required. > > the guy even told me, check around, as some agencies actually can help you > become hiered. I'm like, Oh, yeah, I know, like Voc Rehab etc. He's like, > no no no. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about direct agencies > that work along side us. I asked him to elaborate, which of corse, he > wouldn't. > > I just don't know how comfortable that I feel working for a company who is > gonna be so top-secret. Since when did they become NSA! Lord a mercy! > > You all's thoughts? > > Chris. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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