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Nothing specific in this post – enjoy sometimes playing with numbers – in this case the calendar year – written from the United States central time zone.
May you have an enjoyable 9th month, on the 9th day, on the 19th year at 9:00 pm (and/or in the
morning at 9:00 AM?)
9/9/19
Have a good day everyone
Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope is that you will find the information helpful in your career journey. As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that helpful to you.
Welcome to the Workforce Development tour – where we look at the different features (or at least some of the features) of different workforce development web sites of the different states of the United States. Workforce Development tour will be a series of blog posts. Look at the different states in alphabetical order, so let us look begin looking at the state of:
Alabama
Alabama workforce development web site (or at least one of them; when did a Google search for Alabama workforce development web sites obtained different web sites). I picked the following:
(Link no longer worked)
Web site has 5 main sections, they are
(1) Job Seekers
(2) Employers
(3) Training/Education
(4) Resources
(5) Programs
Give some details on the different sections
(1) Job Seekers
Service to help job seekers
Gives you a way to do a quick search to find job position
You can create a profile that will allow you to do additional stuff like have features in the job search, and receive e-mail updates
(2) Employers
Service to help employers
Able to search for resumes
Can create an employer account to let you do additional functions like post job openings, and receive e-mail updates
(3) Training/education –
Gives some information on training
Click “Search for Training” – will give you information on training programs
(4) Resources
Gives different Internet Resources on career stuff
Have information organized by General categories and get specific categories
Get a listing of web sites under each specific category. Variety of resources listed.
(5) Programs
Gives some information that may help people
* Alabama Works
Connects you with career services;
* On the Job Training
Have information on training programs – get a downloading document called “WIOA/OJA) “Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act On-The-Job Training Programs”
* Work Based Learning – gives information on Work Based Learning – takes you to Alabama State of Department of Education – gives description of worked based programs
* Apprenticeships Alabama (AA) – gives information on Apprenticeships – takes you to the Apprenticeships Alabama
* Unemployment compensation – gives information about unemployment program
Alabama can give resources to help job seekers. Here were some the features that Alabama Workforce Development website may be able to help you
Career Exploration, Internet Job Resources, Live Your Life Learning Blog
Have lists on everything
Can have lists on movie reviews, the best travel web sites, or the Best food
Time for the inspired list – a list varies in length and the items in the list have no specific order or logic.
The inspired list for today
(1) Apple
(2) Time
(3) Marshmallow
This has been the inspired list for today
Some pieces of literature are great
Some pieces of literature are grand
Some pieces of literature are glorious
We now reveal to you the reader – a great, grand, glorious piece of literature
We now read the following:
A wond
This has been a great, grand, glorious piece of literature that slowly being revealed.
Stay tune to future posts when we uncover another letter to this great, grand, glorious piece of literature.
Sometimes when I search for jobs – I would experience highs and lows in emotions – the process of searching for jobs I would experience highs and lows – the experience of highs and lows would be greater when I was searching for a full-time job position and was not currently employed.
Some of the highs and lows could be:
Highs (in general feeling you are making progress to a job position)
Some Highs could be:
* Send out an application
* Send out a resume
* Interview – in an interview that you think went well and may lead to a job off
* Get a job offer (a feeling of a very good High)
* Go to a career conference and talk to people and feel that you have a lead that could lead to a job position
* Your invited to an interview
Lows (in general feeling you are not making progress to a job position)
Some Lows could be:
* Online application – you finish filling out a application and then lose the application for some computer reason (power of the computer goes off; the file does not transfer or save or some reason like that) – and you feel you wasted your effort on the application
* Interview goes nowhere could be reasons like
* Interview for a job that was different than the job position you thought
* You are going to a job interview and then get stuck in a traffic jam that does not allow you to go to the job interview
* You have an interview believing that you may get a job offer and then find out later that you been rejected
* You send the application to the wrong place (could be areas like send the job application to the wrong address if sending the application through the mail; or send the application to the wrong e-mail)
Job hunting may have Highs and Lows when you are job hunting – here some ideas to help you deal with the Highs and Lows that you may feel in emotion when job hunting
* Recognize that you may express Highs and Lows in emotion when job hunting – you may experience difficulties with a job search being aware that the job process can experience Highs and Lows in emotion can help you deal with the emotions
* Creating a Routine – your job may establish a large part of your routine; if you lose your job, a big part of your routine may be gone; can be helpful to have part of your time be in an established routine – some ideas can be
* Career expert – talk to a career expert at an established time during the week
* Have a social event at the same time during the week
* Have established particular time when you job search in the week
* Social – when you are feeling difficulties with life; sometimes having social activities with people can be helpful. Some ideas
* Job hunting groups – you can join a job-hunting group – a job hunting group where people come together to give support to each other in help finding a job
* Social groups that matches a person interest – take a hobby you may have and join a group of people that matches your hobby
* Social activities that helps with a social need – join a social activity that can help people like build homes, do something to help you by helping someone else
* Talk to people where you can express the Highs and Lows emotions that you are experiencing in the job search
* Volunteer – volunteer doing an activity; volunteer a activity that can give you confidence and feel important
* Experts – experts may be helpful; a counselor may be helpful to you in talking about your feelings; a career coach (or counselor) may be able to give you feedback in the job search.
Job Hunting may have you feel Highs and Lows – here are some ideas to deal with the Highs and Lows when you are searching for a job
One of my hobbies is contests – gives me the chance to dream about winning the mega-gazillion. Contests can give you a chance to dream.
My time I spend on contests focus on two areas. The areas are:
* The Balance Everyday
(the link no longer works)
* Publishers Clearing House
https://www.pch.com/
I will describe in one Blog post the Balance Everyday web site and another Blog post Publishers Clearing House web site. My contest hobby been these two websites – so I cannot describe other contest areas on the Internet. Had no problems myself with these two websites. I would like to make you aware of some of the problems that can occur with contests.
This Blog post will focus on some of the problems that contests may have – problems like:
* Fraud
* Lose your money (Be careful paying to enter a contest)
* Computer viruses – possible to get a computer virus by visiting a computer web page; some ideas to deal with computer virus is back up your stuff and anti-viruses software
* Hassles contacts
* Waste of time – enter fake contests and never win anything
* False hope – during times when I had financial difficulties, thought contests could be the “answer” – I think contests are fun – do not assume contests to be your “answer” towards financial distress
If you are under financial distress, look at social services groups that may be able to help you, one social service is the United Way – the United Way has a phone service called 211 – you can call 211 – and be connected to a local service agencies that can be helpful to you (this applies for people in the United States; not sure about other regions)
For details look at
https://www.unitedway.org/our-impact/featured-programs/2-1-1
* Not Winning Anything – legitimate contests can have odds making it difficult to win anything
You may enter contests and become frustrated with not winning anything – some ideas
* Entering contests with smaller prizes (idea from the Balance Everyday web page) – you may increase the odds of winning by focusing on contests that you win smaller prizes
* Focus on how much time you enter contests – I will focus on how much time I enter contests; Ideally, I want to enter contest where I can dream winning but not spend so much time entering contests I get frustrated. I vary in how much time I enter contests (can vary from half hour each day to enter contests to one time every few months)
For information about possible problems with contests, you can look at
Federal Trade Commission
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/fake-prize-sweepstakes-lottery-scams
Contests are a way to dream winning the mega – gazillion. Contests can create problems for people. Next few blogs posts focusing on contests will describe the contests on the Balance Everyday web page and Publishers Clearing House web page.
Add on (July 20, 2019)
Corrections to the above web blog – should mention never had any problems with the Balance Everyday or Publishers Clearing house – so change sentence to “Had problems myself with these two websites” to “Had no problems myself with these two websites” – left out the word No. Amazing how one word left out can change the meaning of a sentence.
Also wanted to mention that the United Way 211 service applies to people in the United States; not sure about other regions.
Added this correction section to mention that while try to get everything correct; sometimes read stuff later find had it wrong – so always writing, learning and growing.
I made these corrections in the original Blog post
Thanks for reading.
Some pieces of literature are great
Some pieces of literature are grand
Some pieces of literature are glorious
We now reveal to you the reader – a great, grand, glorious piece of literature
We now read the following:
A won
This has been a great, grand, glorious piece of literature that slowly being revealed.
Stay tune to future posts when we uncover another letter to this great, grand, glorious piece of literature.
July 4th the day we celebrate the United States Independence from England, people may think about the American Revolutionary War. I enjoy reading about the heroes of the American Revolutionary War. One of the heroes of the American Revolution War I enjoy is Benjamin Franklin – here was a hero that was an inventor, took part in the American revolutionary activities and a successful Business person.
Benjamin Franklin was involved in many of the American Revolution activities at a age when people may consider a person no longer able to contribute or be effective in society; some examples are
• 1776 – Declaration of Independence (Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old)
• 1776 – diplomat to France (Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old)
• 1783 – 1783 Treaty of Pairs – ends the American Revolutionary War (Benjamin Franklin was 77 years old)
• 1787 – United States Constitution Convention (Benjamin Franklin was 81 years old)
For me, Benjamin Franklin can be as an example of what you can do no matter what your age happens to be. Regardless what age a person may be, a person can be effective and contributor to society – just like Benjamin Franklin.
(source “Benjamin Franklin Timeline 1741 – 1790” www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/timeline2.htm)
Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope is that you will find the information helpful in your career journey. As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that helpful to you.
You are trying to find information on something, what is one way you can attempt to find information – you can Google it. Google can be used to search for job positions; for example, let’s say you are interested in being a trainer in Omaha, NE. You can type “trainer job Omaha” – you get a listing of specific jobs in the training area for the Omaha area.
So, looking for jobs in a particular area – you can just Google it.
More of a general thought blog piece this time…
Imagine you work in an office, and you are away, been gone from the office for a reason – let’s say you been on a wonderful vacation- and you come to the office, to your computer – and you get ready to log into your computer and you forget your password.
You may then go through a series of activities to obtain your password – you may do activities like
* Attempt to remember what your password happens to be, you may type out different combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols to try to remember what your password happens to be.
* You may try to retrieve your password using a computer system – sometimes you may be asked about security questions you may not remember the answer to
* You may call the technical department to help you re-set your password
You may find it helpful to be aware you may forgot your password after a long time away from the office, you may try to associate a mental thought to help you remember your password or write down your password, if you write your password keep it in a secure location.
You may find it useful to remind yourself of your password before leaving the office for a long period of time; that way when you come back to the office you will know what your password happens to be.