Who is Carol Castle?

Carol Castle has extensive experience with data entry, invoicing, and other administrative work. Almost all her experience comes from one company, a paper mill that went out of business in 2009. Carol worked there for almost 25 years.

I'm writing about her as an experiment in social media - can people who are digitally networked help individuals who are not?

Carol is looking for anything. Although she is focusing on clerical, data entry, and reception jobs, she would love to learn something new. She doesn’t see that happening though; she says companies want “someone who can show up, put their purse under the desk and start working.”

She has been getting unemployment most of the past couple years, save for a few weeks of temp work. She's close to hitting the 99 week maximum; as of today, she has two weeks left. She would move for work, although she would most like to work in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. 

Her strongest skills as she sees them: “Data entry and getting along with people.”

Her most recent job interview: “With a commercial helicopter company that does heavy lifting.The position included taking calls from pilots who, it seems, are a bunch of rough, tough people who would be used to hollering and cursing.”

Why she wasn’t hired: “They wanted someone who they perceived as having a ‘thicker skin.” More experience dealing with “difficult people.”

Here is her resume: