Despite Having Loads Of Expertise To Offer, Future Employers Will Not Be Encouraged
I am in a difficult place. I have to have a job very soon. I have things on the go which will, I am certain, be fruitful in the extended term with working affiliate marketing and the SEO which supports the fishing website which I am operating. No, this isn’t the issue. What is, is the meantime which is near enough, by my calculations, now. My personal resources have eroded into the red levels and this is why I need a job.
The issue I have with that is that my abilities are, to be honest, hopeless to a possible employer. I have loads of them, don’t get me wrong, I know things and can do lots of stuff perfectly well utilising the knowledge I have. The difficulty is that practically all of the things of which I speak is self taught and not really been used in anger. Let me give an example.
In the spring of 2010, I replied to an advert at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which wasn’t something I had heard of about, but that did not matter according to the ad. So I emailed and was rung by one of the directors of the company which was called Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day will never arrive when you’ll be glad I said that). I agreed to meet the guy at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we talked more and I was extremely pleased with the bloke 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 two and a half grand + VAT but because I had some money left to me 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 employment on completion at favourable rates, it wasn’t a risk.
I drove back and when I got home, the instruction website was available for me and I got going. It took about six weeks to do, rather longer than I’d hoped but when I was closing towards the winning line, I emailed Jim to let him know I was about ready for the first client he had promised to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to let me know that he was in the last stages of getting the deal in place for my first client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a site they’d done for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were trying to sell it and the domain name. I was happy to do that and I went about doing real world SEO.
Anyway to cut a long story short, Kalmindon and Jim and John Akin were operating a fraud. There were no clients and never had been, the complete motive was to get suckers to pay for an SEO training programme and fob them off for as long as they were able. But in the meantime, getting to the point where I knew that I had been conned had taken many months and during that time I had gone through an awful lot of my own money including nearly all of the legacy my grandmother had left me. I tried to arrange some freelance SEO jobs for a while and promoted my own website which offers SEO, affiliate marketing services as well as IT support and software consultancy to small business in the Tipton area.
Since this wasn’t working very quickly I had a look at affiliate marketing as a possibility and decided to have a go, set up a shop online and signed up for lots of affiliate marketing programs and included firms with a maggot drowning emphasis on my site. So now I am running the SEO and it is moving rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet approaching the top, so I have been learning pay-per-click advertising as well to bring in traffic in the meantime.
So you see I do not really have much that a prospective employer would look at as regards SEO and exclaim “that’s the man for us” as what I have isn’t real workplace experience and the same goes for php programming and web programming competencies because I learnt myself when I had to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a business setting and the rest of my IT knowledge base were last used so long ago as to be fairly useless now. And of course, I don’t have a degree. If I did of course, there’d be no problem because naturally I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it was not 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, drive down to the docks and work my passage aboard ship.
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