Weeding through the Bullsnot

It's that time for me. I've got one year in and I'm planning on moving to where I want to stay come the first of the year.

That brings with it a job search. On the positive side, where I'm looking there are plenty of job postings with a more than livable wage.

But that brings me to the hard part. All these postings are easy on the eyes, promising wages upwards of 70k a year, plus benefits and weekly hometime.

It might be easy when talking to a recruiter. Yeah, you're listening to someone who's said the same Bull time and time again, but you can tell when even they don't believe what they are saying most of the time or when their aim is simply to bring in "fresh meat" versus a good driver.

But in text, you're looking at advertisements. I would imagine that several people have poured over the ad before it was posted to make sure there are no typos, errors and that it's very appealing to anyone looking.

So, what does one look for to weed out the crap-places? Are there keywords, phrases, or anything in particular I should be looking for?

Right now, there's about 20 tabs open in my browser of places I feel like are good. But as I think we've all experienced, it's easy for someone recruiting you to make a promise. They aren't the ones that have to make good on it.

 

I don't get it... It's not that hard to do.

Then again, I'm more than willing to do what the next person won't as long as I've got a goal in mind.
If I make it a goal, come hell or high water, It's going to happen.

 

I've certainly given it some thought, and there's a couple companies that are hiring in the area I plan to move to. I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to trying new stuff and learning. In another thread someone recommended trying towing.

I'm less concerned about actual area I'll be moving to, so right now I'm only looking at listings in the Alberta, Ca area. I'll move wherever I can find good work. But that's mostly why I'm asking about not getting suckered in versus good places to work. Besides, i've made a couple threads asking for good companies. Never really got much reply. Chinatown recommended one, but once I'm across the border I don't plan on coming back except to visit family.

 

...been there. Done both. (Though I wasn't 2000 miles away.)

All I'll say is that I ate some bad TS food once. I don't go back to that place again.

 

Fair enough. I figured from the get-go that anything specifically promised just in the ad for the job is straight up bait.

I don't expect anything when I will apply and walk into these places, but I don't want to get stuck with a place that's all promises and wishes.

I'm sure some of you are familiar with this... "Put your wishes in one hand and your shyte in the other. See which one fills up first."