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This is good one for you locals, I found a job posting in http://www.vibusinesslink.com/ I am a great fit for this job. But when I applied I was emailed back telling me I can not apply for this job because I am not registered with the VI Dept. of labor. more or less "She explained"; VI Dept. prefers you to show up in person to register, calling by phone in almost impossible also I have be register with both STX and STT dept(s) when looking for a job posting.
This is what I have done so for; I hit the VI Dept's Web site http://www.vidol.gov/ "hardly anything there helped" so I emailed them for "questions and commits" jvvelez@vidol.gov through the web master? It's been two days no one answers the phone and no email replies. the contact page is http://www.vidol.gov/OP/Contact.htm
Can any one help on what to do next?????????
Posted : August 20, 2004 5:40 pm
TWo days? Welcome to island time, my friend. Two days is a blink of an eye in Stateside life.
Case in point, it took me 5 months for VITELCO (now, Innovative Telephone) to come and flip the switch on the pole 25 feet from my house to turn on my phone. When the lineman actually got there to do it, it took a whopping minute and a half to get it working.
Hang in there, and keep emailing and keep calling.
Posted : August 20, 2004 5:56 pm
I live on St.Thomas, found several jobs that were a perfect fit.........but no dice, have to physically go to the Labor Dept to register - duh! Maybe register online? Duh?????
Need to be here to get a job through the Labor Dept.
Posted : August 20, 2004 9:17 pm
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Now that's what is strange to me, I feel before moving, to find a job, then go. The "in person to register" is redundant. I concur if a person was applying for unemployment. I think it's a means of proctoring the employers and/ or regulating the work force. It's depressing to the point of just giving up on the idea. NOT!
Posted : August 23, 2004 12:16 pm
Michigander: I think the VI Department of Labor is set up to help Virgin Islanders, so of course they would be on island! 😉
Posted : August 23, 2004 7:02 pm
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Yes, your right East Ender I wasn't thinking of the logic of the bases, My bad, now I sound like a school girl cry'n. I should take another trip to the islands on a vacation / work expo, get registered, have a good time and let's not forget the rum & coke
Posted : August 24, 2004 12:30 pm
