Marketing Title Promises Many Things
When looking at career resources on the Internet, you may find different terms in the titles. You may find words like “complete,” “comprehensive,” or “ultimate” marketing terms used in the title of career resources. The marketing terms used in the title of these career articles promise you an excellent return for your effort in reading the career articles. You may find “ultimate” answers to your career needs by reading articles with “ultimate” in their article titles.
However, you may have a problem between the promises made in the title of the articles and the actual content of the articles. You may read a career article that proclaims itself in the title to be “complete,” “comprehensive,” or “Ultimate,” only to find out the article content is actually “ordinary,” “usual,” and “ok.” You can waste time reading “ultimate” career articles that cannot deliver upon their title promise, and the article gives you content that does not answer your career needs.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Yes, there is.
Yes, I am happy to announce a solution to the problem. So, I solved this problem. I did an in-depth analysis of the many career resources found in the Internet universe. From the far corners of the Internet universe, I gathered this information. I then did various careful, well-constructed summary studies to find the best way to present the information.
I have been able to create the ultimate career guide, The Ultimate Comprehensive, Complete, Best, Great, Grand, Glorious Career Guide. This guide will answer anyone’s career questions. This career guide is the best in the Internet universe today.
As a service to you, I would like to present a part of the content in this best guide. Here is the content:
This section is a question-and-answer section.
- Question: What is the best way to design a resume?
The Answer……….42
- Question: What is the best way to develop a cover letter?
The Answer……….42
- Question: What is the best way to find a career expert?
The Answer….…… 42
- Question: What is the best pizza?
The Answer……….42 and hamburger pizza
I hope this summary helps give you an idea of how valuable the ultimate guide can be. May The Ultimate Comprehensive, Complete, Best, Great, Grand, Glorious Career Guide be your guide for your career needs. Thanks for reading. Thank you.
(For those who do not know)
Attempted humor based upon
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005:
YouTube video called
“42 Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK0urw144cU
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You Do a Search
You may look for information. You may decide the Internet is a great place to find information. So, you go to Google (or some other type of search engine), type out your words in the search box, and start your search.
And you find……..nothing.
You do not find the results you want to see
What do you do?
Advance Search Screen Feature
You can consider an Advance Search Screen Feature. An Advance Search Screen Feature on some Internet search tools may give you more options to find the information. Two examples of Advance Search Screen Features are:
Google (www.google.com) and Indeed (www.indeed.com)
Google- finding what you want
Google provides an Advance Search Screen Feature to help people find information.
You can access Google Advance Search Screen Feature by doing a Google search using the phrase “Advance Search screen for Google.”You then (hopefully) may get a search result that will lead you to an Advance Search Screen Feature.
Google Advance Search Screen Feature
www.google.com/advanced_search
You can see different search boxes giving you different ways to do a word search.
You determine what type of search you want to do by choosing a specific search box.
Some options that you can do a Google search can be:
- All these words
- This exact word or phrase
- Any of these words
- None of these words
Indeed–find your job easier with Advance Search Features
You may search for a job on a Job Board Website. The word search on a Job Board website gives you a job results that are ok. You get job positions in your job search that do not relate to the job positions you are attempting to find. One way to improve your job search results is to use an Advance Search Screen Feature on a Job Board website (if there is one). For example, Indeed is a job board website with an Advance Search Screen Feature.
Ways to find Advance Search Screen Feature on Indeed
Go to www.Indeed.com
Do a Job search of some kind (does not matter what you searched for)
Fill in something for two search boxes, which are:
- What–type of career you are interested in
- Where–where you want the job to be located (or can type in “remote” for remote opportunities).
After doing one search, you will get a job search result.
You will notice a link that says, “Advanced Job Search”
Next to the “Find Job.” search box.
Click on the “Advanced Job Search” link to go to the Advance Job Search Screen Feature
Another way find the Indeed Advanced Job Search Screen Feature
You can also do a Google search using a search phrase like “Advance Search screen for indeed.” You may find a search result that has the Advance Search Screen Feature for Indeed.
Indeed.com Advance Search Screen Feature
https://www.indeed.com/advanced_search
You see different search boxes giving you different ways to search for word terms. Some examples are:
- With all of these words
- With the exact phrase
- With at least one of these words
- With these words in the title (this option can help narrow a search by searching word search terms in the job title only)
In conclusion, Advanced Search Screen Features in search tools may help you find your information more accessible. You may use Advance Search Screen Features in search engines like Google or job boards like Indeed.
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Hello everyone, this week’s blog will cover two topics that I like to describe. The two ideas are:
- The Company Web site job listing
- Financial Help 211 Telephone United Way System
The Company Web site job listing
You will find job listings on the Internet in many places. Here are some advantages of finding job positions on a company website.
More Detailed Job Description
First, you may sometimes have a job position in several locations on the Internet. Occasionally, you may find more details about a job position from the company’s website than other locations where the job is located.
Find other similar job opportunities.
Second, check out the company’s website for other job positions. You may have discovered a job position that interests you from a job board (like Indeed, LinkedIn, and so on). You then apply for the job. Examine the company of the job position you just applied for. You then can go to that company’s web page to look for their job listings. You may find more job positions in the field you are looking for by looking at the company’s website. For example, you may find a trainer’s job position interesting on Indeed.com. You then apply for the job position. You will notice the company in that job position. Go to the company’s webpage listed on the job position. You may find other trainer job positions found on that company’s website.
United Way 211 Telephone System
(For those in the United States and Canada)
Sometimes when you are job searching, you may experience difficulties. You may need resources to help you with financial, career help, and other needs while job searching. A social service system that may help you is the United Way 211 telephone system. You can access the 211 telephone system simply by typing “2-1-1” on your telephone. You can talk to a person who can assist you in matching your needs with your local community’s local social service resources.
Internet resources that give more details are:
As a service to our readers (or listeners who are listening to this information), I would like to duplicate two paragraphs of information.
From the Federal Communications Commission web page (it is in italic):
Dial 211 for Essential Community Services
In many states, dialing “211” provides individuals and families in need with a shortcut through what can be a bewildering maze of health and human service agency phone numbers. By simply dialing 211, those in need of assistance can be referred, and sometimes connected, to appropriate agencies and community organizations.
Dialing 211 helps direct callers to services for, among others, the elderly, the disabled, those who do not speak English, those with a personal crisis, those with limited reading skills, and those who are new to their communities.
211 is available to approximately 309 million people, which is 94.6 percent of the total U.S. population. 211 covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. To find out whether 211 services are offered in your area and to obtain more information, visit 211.org.
How 211 Works
211 works a bit like 911. Calls to 211 are routed by the local telephone company to a local or regional calling center. The 211 center’s referral specialists receive requests from callers, access databases of resources available from private and public health and human service agencies, match the callers’ needs to available resources, and link or refer them directly to an agency or organization that can help.
Types of Referrals Offered by 211
- Basic Human Needs Resources – including food and clothing banks, shelters, rent assistance, and utility assistance.
- Physical and Mental Health Resources– including health insurance programs, Medicaid and Medicare, maternal health resources, health insurance programs for children, medical information lines, crisis intervention services, support groups, counseling, and drug and alcohol intervention and rehabilitation.
- Work Support – including financial assistance, job training, transportation assistance and education programs.
- Access to Services in Non-English Languages– including language translation and interpretation services to help non-English-speaking people find public resources (Foreign language services vary by location.)
- Support for Older Americans and Persons with Disabilities – including adult daycare, community meals, respite care, home health care, transportation and homemaker services.
- Children, Youth, and Family Support– including child care, after-school programs, educational programs for low-income families, family resource centers, summer camps and recreation programs, mentoring, tutoring, and protective services.
- Suicide Prevention – referral to suicide prevention help organizations. Callers can also dial the following National Suicide Prevention Hotline numbers which are operated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
- 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
- 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
- 1-888-SUICIDE (1-888-784-2433)
- 1-877-SUICIDE (1-877-784-2432) (Spanish)
Those who wish to donate time or money to community help organizations can also do so by dialing 211.”
(From https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/dial-211-essential-community-services)
You may benefit from looking at the company job listings for those companies you are interested in obtaining employment from. Benefits could include having a more detailed job description and finding other similar job positions in your career field. And if you are having financial difficulties, consider the 211 United Way telephone system that may connect you with local community resources to help you with your financial and career journey needs.
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Understanding that opinions can be wrong, and people can disagree with opinions, I would like to offer one now.
I lived in the United States my entire life. I realized one of the precious freedoms from living here is speaking freely; the ability to speak out your opinions, thoughts, and views is glorious freedom not found in many other parts of the world.
This thought came to my head when I heard the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, warn Olympic athletes to be careful expressing viewpoints when they are in China for the 2022 Winter Olympic games. Athletes have to self-sensor themselves in what they say and do in an authoritarian government like China.
Content Media Universe – Wide variety of content
A good test for me about freedom of speech is looking at the content media universe in your country. Can you find a variety of different content in the media universe? Can you find various news stories, social media posts, podcasts, and videos that express different opinions, thoughts, and ideas?
Proclaim to those in power that they are a group of (Bleep) (Bleep)
Another excellent test for me about freedom of speech is the ability to say out loud how bad is your current government without the fear of punishment. You live in a positive society if you can yell that your current rulers are a group of (Bleep) (Bleep) (Bleep) without fear of punishment.
A sign that you are living in a great democracy is when people can proclaim how rotten the society is; the ability to say we live in a rotten society shows what a great society it is.
An author who better expressed this than me is Edvard Radzinsky of the book Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents From Russia’s Secret Archives (Copyright 1996 published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.). He expressed:
“My father was an intellectual with a passionate love of European democracy. He often repeated a saying which he attributed to President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia: “What is happiness? It is having the right to go out onto the main square and to shout at the top of your voice, “Lord, what a bad government we have!” (First page of Preface).
May freedom long endure – and people can control their lives, including the freedom of speech.
Thanks for hearing my opinions. Thank you
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It’s helpful to have a copy of a job description. The job description can give essential information about the job. The job description can provide you with access to job information that can be helpful in the interview stage of the job process. If you get invited to an interview for a job position, having the job description can be a useful tool.
Job Description Disappears
When you see a job description on a job board or a company website, the job description listing may disappear when the organization is no longer accepting applications for that job position. The job description is no longer listed on a job board or company website when the organization no longer accepts applications.
You then can have a problem of wanting to find a job description when you interview for an opportunity, but you may not have a copy of the job description. When you make it to the interview stage, the job description listing may vanish from the job board or company website.
Job Description Make a Copy (Can put in Word Processor File)
You can copy the job description when applying for the job position. You may then post the job description in a word processor program like Microsoft Word. One way to organize the job description information in a word processor file is to create a list. One way to manage the list is by alphabetical order by an employer and then by alphabetical order by job title. An employer on the list may have two or more job positions that you may have applied for.
As a Backup, save the Job Description on Job Board (or Company Website)
As a backup, some job boards (and some company websites) have a system where you can log in as a user and create an account. By creating an account, a person may have an account feature that will save job descriptions. The account feature may save instead of erasing the job description when the organization no longer accepts applications for that job position.
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A tool that can help a person in job-hunting is a follow-up to an application. Follow-up can allow you to communicate with a potential employer after sending your initial application. You can communicate to a potential employer that you are still interested in the opportunity and receive feedback from the potential employer.
It is good to plan on a follow-up to a potential employer. The one exception to this is job positions that say in their job announcements, not to follow-up. You can hurt your employment possibilities if you try to follow-up, for you were not following the job instructions found in the job announcement.
The time frame to follow-up may vary based on your situation, but a good time is to follow up would be one to two weeks from the time you sent out your initial application.
Here are some articles that give good information about how to follow up on an application.
- How to Follow Up on a Job Application (Phone and E-mail Samples)
By Jennifer Parris (Could not find publication date)
Article address: https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/how-to-follow-up-on-job-applications/
Article from Flexjobs.com. Flexjobs (www.flexjobs.com) is a website that focuses on helping job seekers looking for remote job opportunities. Flexjobs limit many areas of their website to subscribers; some articles like this are available to the public. I believe Flexjobs is an excellent resource for those looking for a remote job if they can afford the subscription rate–about $50 a year).
A follow-up to an application can be a valuable tool to help people with their job search. You might follow up on a job application to increase your odds of success in the job search.
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You may be interested in a remote career. You may seek remote employment for different reasons, like:
- Not have to deal with the commute to work and back
- Able to live in the geographical location that you wish, not right next to your employer
- People may have opportunities with remote that otherwise, they may not have
- Safety reasons for Covid-19 (or other diseases)–people may have pre-existing health conditions that having a remote career may be a safer option
- People may have difficulty traveling–so remote career options can open opportunities for people who have difficulty traveling.
Different Terminology
You can find a variety of different remote job positions.
You can describe remote jobs as:
- Complete remote–a completely remote position where a person can work entirely from their own home
- Hybrid–a person who works a schedule, working from home sometimes and the office the other part of the time.
One resource that can be helpful for a person looking at a remote career is Flexjobs. Flexjobs.com is a site that specializes in helping a person find a remote job.
Flexjobs has the following features:
- Job openings–Flexjobs will focus on listing job positions that are remote. If you are trying to find a remote job, Flexjobs is an excellent choice.
- Career experts–able to talk to career experts can help you on your journey to find a remote career. You can get help and feedback.
- Remote work content–have printed articles and video webinars that can help a person on their career journeys.
- Question and Answer Sessions–you can ask a career expert a question and then get an answer
- Virtual Career Fairs – a person can attend a virtual career fair to find a remote job.
Flexjobs has a subscription feature where a person pays a subscription to access many resources on Flexjobs.com. Flexjobs have different subscription options. The yearly subscription cost is around $50. If a person can afford the subscription rates, I believe Flexjobs is an excellent resource to look at for remote job positions.
The job positions you see on Flexjobs may be very competitive. People who pay for a subscription to Flexjobs to gain access to remote job positions are likely highly motivated job seekers. One disadvantage of Flexjobs is you may deal with competition from other highly motivated, highly skilled candidates for the same job position.
You may also want to explore other Internet resources to find remote job positions, including:
- LinkedIn.com
- Indeed.com
- And career websites that relate to your profession.
You may explore other job techniques as well. For example, could look at:
- Direct contact–use direct contact of contacting potential employers whether or not they have an advertised job position for remote possibilities
- Networking–you may find opportunities from people you already know; you can look at people you already may know for opportunities.
You may find remote jobs using Flexjobs.com. I find Flexjobs a helpful tool to add to your are arsenal to your tool kit on your journey to a remote job position.
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Some job positions may involve creating videos. A person may use video-editing software to help make videos using visual and audio content.
You may find a variety of different video-editing software choices on the Internet. A good choice can be Davinci Resolve. DaVinci Resolve gives many powerful options that allow a person to create a quality video.
And the cost to get the DaVinci Resolve software is FREE–no charge. (Be aware that DaVinci Resolve has a cost version called DaVinci Resolve Studio).
Where other video-editing software choices may be better than DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve may not benefit everyone; here are some situations where DaVinci Resolve’s video-editing software may not be your first choice.
- You do not need to learn a complicated video-editing software
One problem may be its learning curve; DaVinci Resolve can be a complex video-editor software system to learn; a person may find a more simple video–editor software system that may benefit their needs.
- DaVinci Resolve needs a good quality computer system.
DaVinci Resolve requires a good quality computer system to take advantage of all the choices found in DaVinci Resolve.–an older computer system may limit the ability to use the DaVinci Resolve tools.
The following YouTube video can give information about different video-editing software choices.
YouTube Title: Best Video Editing Software for Windows PC – 2022 Review
YouTube Channel: Justin Brown – Primal Video
YouTube Publication: Jan 16, 2022
Web Address: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk-bLwKMxvQ
YouTube Videos that explain DaVinci Resolve.
DaVinci Resolve allows you to do a variety of different functions with videos. Two YouTube videos that can explain DaVinci Resolve can be:
YouTube Title: DaVinci Resolve – [UPDATED] Complete Tutorial for Beginners!
YouTube Channel: Jun 20, 2021
Published On; Justin Brown – Primal Video
Web Address: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-b1sXYnqq8
I think the video does an excellent job of introducing people to DaVinci Resolve. The video outlines topics they cover and uses great visual cues to help explain the material.
YouTube Title: RESOLVE 17 CRASH COURSE – Davinci Resolve 17 Walkthrough [BEGINNER]
YouTube Chanel: Casey Faris
Published On: Dec 17, 2020
Web Address: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozj-aQH0kiE&t=1s
I think the video does an excellent job of giving more details about the Davinci Resolve tool.
I found the DaVinci Resolve tool to be a good video editing software to help people create quality videos. You may discover DaVinci Resolve to be the video editing tool to be the smart choice for your video-editing needs.
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You may have received rejections in your professional life; I think it is a common occurrence among people. Examples of professional rejection in my own life have been:
- Job application rejections
- Business selling rejections
- Voice–over auditions rejections
- Writing submissions rejections
Rejection can be a common occurrence that many people will share.
Rejections can be a common trend people may have in their professional careers.
Here are some ideas on how to deal with professional rejections.
Try not to take professional rejections personally
Attempt not to take a professional rejection personally.
People may have personal feelings when they receive a professional rejection from time to time; I think people are more likely to have personal feelings if the professional rejection surprised them.
Act professionally towards others when you receive a professional rejection. Not acting professionally towards others can create more problems for you and others involved.
As best as you can, try not to take the rejection personally and attempt to (if possible) learn from the rejection. You may find it valuable to work with a professional counselor. Or get support from a friend, family, or social group to help you deal with your personal feelings towards a professional rejection. You may learn something from the rejection to help you achieve your next professional opportunity.
Multiple Many
(a) Multiple Many–If possible, try to have many multiple opportunities in professional life–so if you receive rejection in one area–you may find opportunities in another area.
Having alternatives can be helpful to professional life–having choices helps give people hope for their professional lives. For example, a person may benefit from having two career options rather than just one. For instance, in job hunting land to keep hope alive, Richard Bolles, the author of a best-selling book series called What Color Is Your Parachute? Wrote in a 2013 edition:
“Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us…To have only one plan, one option, in any situation, is a sure recipe for despair…. In order to never become hopeless, you want to be sure that in every situation you find yourself, you’re not putting all your eggs in one basket. You must determine to always have at least two alternatives; in every challenge you are facing” (Page 1-2; published by Ten Speed Press) (Richard Bolles described a paragraph of alternatives in unique features to a job hunt on pages 1-2)
Feedback
(b) Feedback – you may find the feedback helpful when facing rejection. Feedback from others may help you find areas to improve. For example, you may find a career expert who can offer valuable feedback on the job search. You may find a writing coach who can improve your writing as another example. A writer coach may discover areas you can use to improve your writing. Reading your writing, you may not find all of your errors. Feedback can be a way to improve. You may achieve success in your next professional opportunity with feedback.
Try to find accomplishments outside of your professional life
(c) Try to find accomplishments outside of your professional life–if you are able, see if you can find achievements outside your professional life and activities. You may have other areas of life where you can find achievements. For example, you may find accomplishments through:
- Connections with social groups
- Connections with friends
- Connections with family
- Hobbies
- Volunteer activities
You may deal with rejections in a professional life easier when you can find other sources in your life where you can discover accomplishments. These different areas of life may fulfill you with a sense of accomplishment when you are facing rejections in your professional life.
Know your odds
(d) Know your odds – professional life in some areas can be very competitive, for example, professional acting. If you are going into a very competitive professional field, at least be aware of the odds so that you know rejections are likely to occur as you pursue your professional goals in those competitive areas. In the more competitive areas of professional life, you can know rejections are standard, and rejections are a part of professional life in those competitive areas.
Find Support in Social Connections
(e) Find Support in Social Connections–If you are feeling stress from rejections in your professional life, I would recommend (if possible) finding support through social connections. You may find your friend or family members may comfort you. Dealing with professional rejections alone may make it more challenging to deal with the stress.
You also may find social groups that can support you in a particular professional area. If you are job searching, for example, you may deal with the job search stress better by having support from a job support group.
Professional help from a professional counselor
(f) Professional help from a professional counselor–if you feel professional rejections are creating a lot of stress for you, you may benefit from seeing a professional counselor who may help you deal with the stress.
Often rejections are not final
(g) Often rejections are not final–Think of the “No” as one step closer to a “yes”–you may think of the No as one step closer to a yes. Seeing rejection as a process rather than the final destination may help you have the energy for your next professional opportunity.
Rejections can be a part of professional life; the ideas described above may help you deal with rejections and help you achieve your professional goals in your professional life.
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People at the beginning of a new year often will create resolution goals.
People may have resolution career goals for 2022
Here are some ideas to help people reach their resolution career goals for 2022.
- Make it specific–you may have better luck accomplishing your resolutions if you make the resolution precise. Creating a particular resolution may make it easier to accomplish; you may get a sense of progress towards your goal resolution.
- Schedule the activity–you may have better luck doing the action if you schedule it. For example, if I plan to do job searching, I can make sure I have enough time available to do the job search.
- Do it in the same place–you may find it valuable to do the activity in the same place. For example, you may find it helpful to do a job search in the same area in your home. People may vary in what location they may find beneficial. For instance, I would say a quiet place would work best when searching for a job. Find a site that works best for you.
- If your resolution is a big goal, you may find it easier to break the big resolution goal into smaller pieces. For example, suppose you have the resolution to go back to school to get a degree in a career area. In that case, you can break the degree goal into smaller parts of smaller goals of completing specific coursework towards that degree.
- Award yourself–as you progress towards your resolution goals; reward yourself occasionally for making progress. Award yourself that can re-charge your energy banks and give you a sense of accomplishment that you are achieving your goals.
- Writing your goals can help you stay focused on achieving your goals. For example, writing what goals you like to do the next day may help you stay focused on accomplishing your tasks—for example, writing which potential employers you want to contact the night before.
- Recognize that you may have difficulty achieving some goal resolutions smoothly; you may have some setbacks. Recognizing that you may have some setbacks in goals may allow you to have the energy to continue to reach the goal.
- Don’t be afraid to modify resolution goals if need be–in job hunting land. You may find it challenging to enter a particular field (like professional acting, for example). You may find another occupation that still interests you. At the same time, not be as competitive to enter.
These are some ideas to accomplish your goal resolutions for 2022.
Have an enjoyable year.
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