Jobs around Dallas, TX, or Amarillo, TX. What Should we do?

Hello from Dallas! I hope you're doing well despite your challenging situation - hang in there! I worked in human resources once and discovered HR's "dirty little secret": unless you're a candidate for CEO, no recruiter worth his/her salt will consider a candidate that lives out of town. Now, before I get burned as a witch hear me out: PROBLEM: Your hiring manager has seen it more than once, less than a million times: Will the candidate move for this job? Has the candidate EVEN found a place in town? It just goes on and on. Bottom line: there are more than one, less than a million LOCAL candidates. I won't even go into what big companies have discovered: it's cheaper to ship these jobs overseas. TIP: If you're heart's set on working in any city, a cheaper alternative is getting a post office box to receive mail - you can place that as your mailing address in your resume. Further tip: recruiters get resumes through their computer ... zip codes closer to the company's office go to the top of the heap. You know where the resumes out of town zip codes go. Further on: If your "zip code method" does produce calls for interviews (the only thing that comes with a guarantee these days is a toaster), pick out the ones you might be interested in doing for the long haul, call the recruiters back and schedule interviews cluster them around a day or two next week. Scheduling tip: if the recruiter calls and asks if you can come in tomorrow, it's perfectly acceptable to say, "I'd would love to come in and meet with you then, however, I'm not able to - is next (insert day of the week) a possibility?" No recruiter worth his/her salt is going to dig for the details of your personal schedule - the good ones zip to their Outlook/Palm calendar and leapfrog to their next week's scheduled openings. Chances are it'll be free and you won't be in with the cattle tomorrow that jumped when he/she called. PS To save on the cost of getting a P.O. box, find a friend or a relative in town, ask if you can use their address for resume purposes and go with that. PPS In the event you're able to schedule mutliple interviews in that "one week" get an extended stay motel - it will give you a chance to dangle your feet in local waters and see if you feel comfortable living here for several years - or possibly, for life. PPPS Best of luck and I hope it works out for the best for your boyfriend .... and for you!

Howdy, Amarillo! Mineral Wells, here. First off, get the local newspapers delivered to you and don't limit yourselves to Dallas only. The metroplex is huge and has lots of opportunity throughout it. My husband sent out resumes to hundreds of jobs, but he got his job from a want ad in the Star Telegram. I do know they mail papers, as we got both the Star and Times when we lived in Chicago. This also helps finding a safe place to live without all the "pretty pictures' on the web. North Arlington (north of 30) is pretty safe and controlled, but close to 20 and Traders' Village is pretty seedy. That's when I moved out of there 5 years ago. There's a lot of places laying off right now, so maybe a pizza delivery job for both of you would work better than a huge move here while the economy sucks. I know that sounds absurd, but my Plant Manager husband and I both did it when the times were rough just to make ends meet. Good Luck!

Don't limit the search to Dallas only. Look for jobs in Ft Worth and the suburbs as well. You can still live in Dallas if that's what you want to do. If he can't find a job, then do any kind of work in Amarillo and wait it out until the economy recovers. Crazy Horse who answered you, hasn't been here for a while it seems, because Traders Village isn't even in Arlington, it's in Grand Prairie.The area around Interstate 20 has built up in the past few years and it's all new, with shopping and homes valued between $200,000 and $300,000. Nothing seedy about it. Good luck.

try dyn corp intl. not all our jobs are on the website so contact them at 817-224-8200 we are looking for several hundred people