Question: When you fill out an online job application are you supposed to call the manager and ask if they received it?

I'm wanting to know anyone here who's first job was working either at Wal-Mart, Target, McDonald's or any other grocery store chain and fast food chain and or restaurant did you have to first make a phone call of who ever is in charge of collecting job application?

Since I'm 24yrs old and I have been searching jobs ever since I was 16yrs old when the economy was as not bad as it is today and still can't get my first job interview!!! I mean I'm a U.S citizen living in America this supposedly called "The American Dream" and yet I can't get hired to any job nor receive a phone call from the manager! It's things like this that makes me so mad and yet this is not freaking Zimbabwe!!!

Since when did getting hired for jobs become so hard?This is America the land of many opportunities not Haiti.I mean one has to jump through lots of hoops in order to get a freaking simple part time job such as Dish Washing at a restaurant.

I have found this ridiculously amusing when we went to visit my relatives in Argentina that over there it's easier to get hired when applying for a job.

As of right now I'm a part time college student.

Answer:

It would not hurt to give him a call.

TG, you are apparently doing something wrong! For you to fill out applications for 8 years and not be called in for at least ONE interview tells me that something is amiss.I suggest that you look for a job with smaller restaurants that are locally owned and operated. You need to get your interviewing skills practiced so that you will be accomplished at interviewing for when the BIG CHANCE comes.

Good luck.
Regards,
Dan

If it's true you've been really trying for 8 years and haven't gotten an interview, change everything you're doing. Because you're doing something wrong.

Yes, call and follow up on the application.

But also analyze what you're telling them. If you sincerely can't get a job as a dishwasher, something in your application or resume is turning employers across the board off.

It might be attitude. It could be now they're looking for you to explain what you've done with yourself since you were 18--never had a job and only doing college part time.

Look around for a local job clinic. Your college might also have job resources. Get somebody there to review what you're submitting and see if they can suggest how to change the misimpression employers are getting.
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That would at least show them that you are very interested in the job meaning you will be willing to work there.