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Thứ Bảy, 28 tháng 5, 2011

Although I Have Loads Of Skills To Work With, Future Employers Will Not Be Encouraged

By Jon Izzard


I am in a difficult place. I have to have a job very quickly. I have schemes on the go which will, I am positive, provide in the longer term with regard to affiliate marketing and the SEO which promotes the fishing shop which I am operating. No, this isn't the challenge. What is, is the meantime which is round about, by my calculations, now. My personal finances have dwindled into the red zone and this is why I need a job.

The challenge I have with that is that my skills are, to be honest, rubbish to a prospective employer. I have stacks of them, don't get me wrong, I know things and can do heaps of stuff perfectly well utilising the knowledge I have. The trouble is that nearly all of the things of which I speak is self taught and not really been used commercially. Let me use an example.

In the spring of last year, I answered an advert at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which wasn't something I was aware of about, but that didn't matter according to the advert. So I answered it and had a chat with one of the directors of the company which was called Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day won't dawn when you'll be glad I informed you of that). I arranged to meet him at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we talked more and I was extremely pleased with the guy who's name is Jim Akin (see brackets above) and really wanted to work with him. I was required to pay for the training (as explained in the advert which was 2500 + VAT but as I had some money due from my late grandmother's will, I borrowed the money, met Jim again at a Job Centre in Leamington and handed it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed profitable clients on completion at attractive rates, it wasn't a gamble.

When I got home, the training website was available for me and I got going. It took about 6 weeks to do, rather longer than I had intended but when I was getting towards the finish, I contacted Jim to notify him I was nearly ready for the 1st client he had arranged to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to say that he was in the last stages of putting the agreement in place for my 1st client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a website they had constructed for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were looking to sell it and the domain name. I was happy to do that and I set about doing real world SEO.

Anyway to cut a long story short, Kalmindon and Jim and John Akin were operating a scam. There were no clients and never would be, the whole motive was to get people to pay for an SEO training program and fob them off for as long as they were able. But in the meantime, reaching the moment where I knew that I had been defrauded had taken many months and in the meantime I had gone through an awful lot of my own money including nearly all of the estate my grandmother had left me. I made an effort to get some freelance SEO work for a while and promoted my own website that offers SEO, affiliate marketing services as well as IT support and software consultancy to small business in the Kingswinford area.

Since this was not working very quickly I examined affiliate marketing as a possibility and made a decision to have a go, built a website and enrolled in various affiliate marketing programs and placed firms with a tackle dangling theme on my site. So now I am running the SEO and it is scaling rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet close to the top, so I have been learning pay-per-click advertising as well to direct traffic in the meantime.

So you see I don't really have a lot that a possible employer would see as regards SEO and say "that's the man for us" as what I have is not real workplace experience and the same can be said for php programming and web building skills because I instructed myself when I needed to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a business sense and the rest of my programming knowledge base were last used so long ago as to be fairly useless now. And of course, I do not have a degree. If I did of course, there'd be no challenge because naturally I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it wasn't vital in the mid-80's. All I can offer is experience and knowledge. If there's no alternative, I'll have to go on the game, go down to the shipyards and work my passage aboard ship.

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