When you find yourself doing something everyday, it is obvious that you will have to learn how to write about it such that other people can understand what you are talking about. Unfortunately, when a job search is one of the most uninteresting jobs in the world : you have to justify to someone that you are worth something, but it just so happens that you are being used for one reason or another.
There is a wide gamut of reasons why you may choose to leave a job. Leaving education is also a problem, but often very justifiable when it is not something you particularly like. Introducing the word career into my vocabulary is still a foreign concept, but I may have to do so if I don't want to continue wandering around. My expectations about work have become progressively more realistic, however I should consider doing something that I will not loathe. Why do I have the impression that people loathe their work?
Unfortunately, I am north american and my sense of culture is thin. Work is what defines who I am and why I should exist. Based on the literature on the job search, we are not encouraged to think about the real consequences or need of whatever we do. Great minds make useless things and bad decisions.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
When Social Networking is not for you...
I am currently looking for work. If are one the readers of this blog, it may be of no surprise that you do not have much of an idea who I am. It would not take that much sniffing around to find out who I am, but being anonymous is one of those strange luxuries of living in a big city where nobody, other than friends, family, work colleagues and your chosen social groups, know you.
I just read the article "Online presence is underused for job hunters"
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20110508/OTT_technow1_110508/
while I am not on any of the social networking services, I find it really difficult to justify to myself the creation of an online profile. If my previous employers and colleagues think I am dead, it wouldn't really bother me.
A name is built from accomplishments, whether it be publications, projects, participation to a range of activities. Not a generic profile. I cannot even think if I have been photographed more than 3 times in the past 3 years.
As for building an online ever shifting persona, just for the purpose of looking for work, it seems really late to start. Social networking is so 2007.
I just read the article "Online presence is underused for job hunters"
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20110508/OTT_technow1_110508/
while I am not on any of the social networking services, I find it really difficult to justify to myself the creation of an online profile. If my previous employers and colleagues think I am dead, it wouldn't really bother me.
A name is built from accomplishments, whether it be publications, projects, participation to a range of activities. Not a generic profile. I cannot even think if I have been photographed more than 3 times in the past 3 years.
As for building an online ever shifting persona, just for the purpose of looking for work, it seems really late to start. Social networking is so 2007.
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