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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 everybody about what has happened.

I am hoping (the caveat being that nobody reads blogs anymore) that others will not fall for their spider webs.

It will be curt. It will be based on fact. It will be what it is. Nothing less and nothing more.

Hope to get the conversation going. 





 

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