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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2013-02-04 01:35 pm
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Discouraging...

So I have been loading WorkinTexas.com for over a week with my varied experience. I try the jobs match.

No jobs.

First tea, then search and tweak.

*Sigh.*

Contemplating writing erotica.
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[identity profile] patrice sarath (from livejournal.com) 2013-02-04 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to hear that things are discouraging. I wish I had something useful to impart. Best wishes and I hope you get good news soon.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Sympathy and sightings appreciated!

I can be found on LinkedIn!

[identity profile] sheilagh.livejournal.com 2013-02-05 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
the advice i got from Miss M's friend Sofie (who works at Texas Workforce, if I'm recalling aright) is to not fill out your entire page all on one day. Get the basics in, but then add a little bit each day, there's an algorithm under the hood that bumps you up in some search results when it sees regular activity vs all-in-one-go activity.

You might also check with M and see if she has any game nights or other events coming up that Sofie might be at, so that you can rub elbows. Get her going, and she is a cheerful wealth of information on TWC.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2013-02-05 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been doing it a little at a time over the past two weeks. The major problems for private sector are the words "recent technical experience," XML and its kin, and input software I don't know, like Framemaker. Lost the WIA grant money (again.) Doesn't matter if money is savings or a gift, it's money, and they can't help you.

Ed encouraged me to apply for anything I have 70% of the requirements, and write a hell of an intro letter. He believes most people get the job through the interview, which is probably true.

I am tweaking the resume today a la TWC recs. If I can get LibreOffice to allow me to move sections around, I can try creating a resume emphasizing the writing. But with the dates on my tech experience, I suspect private sector writing is currently hopeless. Need to figure out what the best current XML book is...and keep at the WORD tutorial. Do you think I should concentrate on 2007 or 2010?

Writing for the nonprofit websites applet group at LaunchPad may give me nonprofit cred other than Richard, and also more recent tech experience.
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