Notices tagged with caljobs
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#CalJobs is hot garbage. If I do a search with a distance from $CITY limit, most results will come from outside the limit (though they do at least sort them properly, so one can just take the first results until they are too far away).
Since this is operated through "Geographic Solutions, Inc.", the same company that operates sites for most states' JobService / American Job Center programs, it is very likely that all such sites have similar issues.
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So ... California's #CalJobs versus New York's #Jobzone:
NY's sign-up process is complex and multi-step. You create a MY.NY.GOV account, then segue across to Department of Labor, answer a buggy and multi-page mandatory questionaire. (Most pages took 15-25 resubmits before the site accepted them and moved forward.) Then you click Jobzone and you're taken to a site where you have a number of career assessments before you can run a job search. They also have an alternative search through a 3rd party contractor. CalJobs was simple to sign up for.
NY Jobzone only searches New York and adjoining states, naturally. Except I don't live in or near New York, so most searches return zero results. Adding "willing to move" and "work from home / remote" adds loads of results from all over the country, but appears to shut off your search filters, so anything, anywhere that has a job in the system appears ... hundreds of irrelevant results. CalJobs, likewise, only searches California. Unless I specifically tell it to search only in my county, it finds irrelevant jobs from as far off as Newport Beach (about 3 hours each way in a car I don't have) and the San Francisco Bay Area (hundreds of miles away), and even worse if I turn on remote and relocation.
Jobzone appears to be written by state employees. CalJobs is contracted via #GSI (Geographical Solutions Inc). Not too long ago (1-2 years?), GSI suffered an attack that knocked the sites of several state and local employment agencies offline for a few days. Given the security level tha they'd demonstrated over the years, I'm not confident that there's anything the attackers didn't get.
Neither one is very good for me right now, so I use them because they are required, and then switch over to a handful of non-government job search sites.
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I know #GSI (Geographic Systems, Inc) says that no user data / PII was exposed by the #cyberattack, but from past experience with both insecure-but-required #CalJobs and #CSB-WIN sites, I know that there is no effort required to grab dozens or hundreds of SSNs at a time, along with names, usernames, street addresses, e-mail addresses, ... and passwords. CSB-WIN has been shut down for some years now, but when it existed, it used the same GSI software as CalJobs and several other states' Jobservice sites.
(I wasn't doing anything I should not have been doing. I was trying to reset my password.)
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#CalJobs and other GSI powered state jobservice sites are still down. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/287002
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I should explain the “insecure-but-required” part.
One time when I was off-work, they instructed me that I had to do job searches on the #CalJobs site as a condition of receiving unemployment insurance benefits. I went to the site and found that I had once created an account. I knew neither the username nor password.
I clicked a link for forgot username and entered something they requested. I wound up on a page that had the names, usernames, and #SSN of everyone who had joined the site while living in the same municipality.
From there, I found my username, which (together with SSN) was enough to bring me to a page that showed me my password.
This was years ago. I immediately used the site’s contact information to inform them what I’d found, but they did not respond. And in fact, the whole process was repeated a few years later. I’d like to think they have since changed this, but previous experiences have convinced me that they will never change until there is a major data breach traceable to the software.
(Multiple state “Job Service”agencies have this same software running their sites; software produced by “Geographic Solutions, Inc”.)
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LOL. California Employment Development Department wants me to schedule a one-on-one videochat session with an #EDD employee, so they can ask me about my job search efforts. In the two months I’ve been back at work, I legitimately have not applied to a single job ... not that I’m not interested in replacing this one, but I’m just trying to get caught up, so I have a little breathing room.
(Yes, this was on the insecure-but-required #CalJobs site, but I’m pretty sure they mailed at least one letter to my home as well.)
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#EDD's #CalJobs site: You don't have the required 24 months of experience as a telephone support tech.
Me: Oh, really?
I don't want to talk on the phone to strangers anyway. But your garbage software shouldn't pretend it knows anything, because it doesn't.
The insecure-but-required CalJobs site, that is. Too bad @question is gone. He knew about CalJobs and #CSB-Win, and could weave them into his #semi-grammatical #bot_babble ( #sgbb )
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The insecure-but-required #Caljobs site added reCAPTCHA ... as if only #bots could get in and do bad stuff.
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Seeing lots of openings for nursing and teaching jobs, though I suspect that many of those are the same few jobs being reposted multiple times per day.
As is normal, the required-but-insecure #Caljobs is useless.
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The last few days, I've been too busy preparing for Thanksgiving to apply to any job openings. Going to try to catch up today.
If you take out all the filters, #CalJobs generally has minimum wage retail jobs 60-100 miles away, but this year, they actually have a lot of jobs nearby ... if you're either a nurse or a teacher, both of which require state licensing that I don't have or want.
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Uh, I thought the insecure-but-required #CalJobs site had shown me something worthwhile. $100K+/year, an hour's drive away. Then I looked closer: eight years of "information security" experience. If you've worked in this field, unless you're totally braindead, you have done some security stuff, but I don't think their client would count it as tech security experience.
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This was advertised on the #CalJobs site today. Are there a large number of unemployed MDs that no one is talking about?
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Top trending employer on the insecure but required #CalJobs site: Panda Express.
"Hi, welcome to Panda!" (Now I guess it would be "Hi, welcome in!" as though that even makes sense.)
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#Cal-EDD (the state agency that administers the Unemployment Insurance program) has references to “free online training” site Alison.com in multiple parts of the insecure-but-required #CalJobs job search site. Last night, I decided to take a look at the site.
Maybe they are helpful to some people, but they seem like they’re going to be very surface-skimming. 2-3 hours for a Python course, or the introductory Network Security course. A serious person could potentially earn “diplomas” in 100 different subjects in a month’s time.
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I looked at training resources in #CalJobs (since I'm required to use it). Sacred bovine! I've never seen such steer manure in my life. The whole list is variants of "Facebook marketing", "Google Ad Analytics". Now, I understand that these classes are all offerings by 3rd parties, not the state, but I know there are better and more realistic courses available.
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Finishing today's #YoCo ( #yogurt and #coffee ) and preparing to call California Employment Development Department (EDD). I know they'll require me to log into the (insecure but required) #CalJobs site.
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Between #CalJobs and payment vendors (including #PayPal), I've spent most of today getting unsatisfying results.
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If I was the on Chinese Army's cracking team, I'd visit #California's #CalJobs site, click 'forgot login' and make up a SSN (or use some the 14 million they got from #OPM). Default "secret question" is last 4 of SSN, so very easy to get all sorts of personal info.
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If I was the on Chinese Army's cracking team, I'd visit #California's #CalJobs site, click 'forgot login' and make up a SSN (or use some the 14 million they got from #OPM). Default "secret question" is last 4 of SSN, so very easy to get all sorts of personal info.