Well, hello there and thanks for surfing my wave!
We’ve all been advised countless times about our resume; use the most action words possible followed by illustrious results. If you worked in Sales, by what percentage did you increase your client base or revenues? If you worked in Collections, what percentage of the overall corporate debt did you recover? Were you in marketing? Did your campaigns increase sales? You get the picture, right? It’s all about numbers: percentages, increased dollar amounts, increased market share – all that. How have we bettered the bottom line? Well, I didn’t; my job didn’t address any of that. I was accomplished, but my functions were all about deadlines and precision; I was never accountable to increases or decreases, I had to be on-time and perfect. If I was late or made an error, that would have created legal and licensing issues, and thus a fine for the Company. Well, my work was consistently ahead of schedule and completely flawless…all the time. How do you properly put that on a resume? You can integrate it into a cover letter, but it isn’t backed up or validated on a resume, because my job wasn’t numbers-driven, so I’m at a loss on that one…
Until Now!
As a result of this website you are hopefully reading on a regular (or semi-regular) basis, I’m all about numbers – real surprising for me, and completely out of the blue. I wasn’t looking for something to pump out statistics for the sake of creating something that only generated figures, it just happened. I started a project that energized and impassioned me, and by working at it and continually modifying and optimizing it, I’m now starting to see impressive, uh – numbers. Let me share but a few:
I now have five articles in four categories published on EzineArticles.com:
1) “There’s a New Major in College - Unemployment Technologies”
2) “The Art of Helping One Another Find Work”
3) “Finding the Passion Within Us”
4) “Time to Refocus Our Unemployed Lives”
5) “Looking to the Future in Our Job Search”
These articles all come from blog posts – modified to accommodate the publishers’ requirements; I invite you to click on each to revisit them…
As of this posting, I am ranked 15 out of 260 articles in one category, another category, 330 out of 1097 and 1979 out of 5041 in another. Not too shabby, huh? If you Google one of my key phrases, “unemployment depression”, there are currently over 7 million results for that search – this website is ranked #251. On average, you are spending about 8 ½ minutes reading this site – THANK YOU! I’ve never loved numbers more! Music to my ears! Of course, there are dozens of other numbers, but I am still learning to understand and interpret them. Now, quite a few figures still need improvement, but I can say that what I’ve learned is quite enlightening! And again, I have all of you to thank for that.
So all of this comes from a person who was let go from his paying job over five months ago. Since then, I’ve gone from a deer in headlights to a website owner, blogger and published author. Oh, yeah – I sucked in English and, computers to me were scarier than diets named after people who’ve died at an early age. Quite a turn around, yes? You can do this too!
If we don’t invest in ourselves and strive to do better right now, we will have certainly wasted our valuable time. As I look for similar employment to what I had, I have built a solid back-up plan. I’m posting quite late today for various reasons, the most important one being I have a super job lead within Entertainment and needed to be extremely flexible with my time and concentrate more on following up with the lead and getting things lined up to apply. So I haven’t given up the traditional job hunt – never will, really. I’ve always said, be flexible; always maintain your sense of determination and consistently follow-through on everything you start. I have two jobs, getting paid for none of it, but enjoying the chase and challenge of it all. Everyone needs to find a passion and a back-up plan; maybe they’ll be one in the same.
I am living proof that you can turn an idea, how ever far-fetched it may sound, into something inspiring. If you work at something rigorously and collect experts in whatever that is to facilitate and guide the efforts, it will happen. If you find something that gets you up in the morning and forces you to construct something each day, you may find yourself captivated by it and the results it can breed.
I Am Proud…
Why Just Look For A Job? Create One!™
TheUnemployMENTOR – email@theunemploymentor.com
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I am proud as well. Enjoyed reading this and do learn from it, more than you think
Dear Exhausted:
Thank you for your comment; reading them allows me to learn…more than you can think! I’m glad you derive enjoyment from them. Now, please get some rest!
Warmest Regards-
TheUnemployMENTOR