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Employment Agencies: Online "Automatic Answering Machines" or "Robots"

Yes lets talk about Robots... Not the South African kind - those are just plan traffic signals... Look l am no techie, but this is what l know, and l would like you to take care... out there, on the "WWW"... Online jobs are fake. We really need to stop going to online websites looking for jobs. I spent about six months of my life, dedicated, to sending CV's out online, adapting them and rewriting them to "fit" the HR company's requests, and then posting these "new CV's" to online job boards, for "specific" jobs. It never ends, l think l may have rewritten my CV on countless occasions, to fit the "profile" advertised. I believe during that six month period, l sent over 1000 CV's (that is no joke), and l got a handful of positive replies, in the two dozen, followed by five "interviews". What l have learned is that these online employment websites are engaged in essentially fraudulent practices, the jobs they a

Have You Found A Job Yet?

Who uses blogger? Nobody l know... Its not anonymous...  I am sure nobody is going to read my posts...  No l have not found a job, I have been looking since May 2017.  No job... What's new?  I had initially planned to write about my current job, but l was warned against that. I am still looking for a better job. So l can talk about that. Tips, observations, advise, whatever it may be... Its hard finding work. Actually l am not making much progress... I have been trying a variety of methods... Nothing seems to work... Oh! Wait l am using the Internet... That does not work. I am going to discuss my continuing job search, what l have been doing in the past few years. What l have learned, and what l advise against. I have profiles on various online job websites. Since registering l have made little progress... finding work. I send out many online CV's and l get nothing but false promises in return. So l decided to tell