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Couple of thoughts: 1. Skillset: I think other people have brought up ideas on how to get fast-gain skills that may leverage your existing experience. A lot of
by NikolaNovak 5y ago
Couple of thoughts:
1. Skillset: I think other people have brought up ideas on how to get fast-gain skills that may leverage your existing experience. A lot of options, you need to know your location/market/opportunities to make best judgment. As others have mentioned, beyond tech, look at generic bureaucracy but also leadership and management and supervisor positions. There's a myriad places whose primary need is an adult, responsible, diligent, intelligent, thoughtful, serious person who takes responsibility and personal ownership. (For one of my teams, those are literally the primary pre-requisites; I just need a serious person who will take serious things seriously; everything else I can teach you; unfortunately, we are in Canada)
2. Presentation: I want to highlight that for many companies/recruiters, there's no upper limit to gains you can make by having your Social Profile, Resume, Cover Letter, and then email/phone/in-person discussion made better and more specific to the target position. Look hard at your experience working and I would be absolutely shocked that you don't have many valuable skills you may not be aware of or you believe are common (but aren't) - look for soft skills, organizational skills, people skills, management skills, process and procedure skills, documentation skills, judgment skills, leadership skills, quality assurance, etc. Look for experience and knowledge and skills you have gained that somebody in high school would not inherently have.
Btw, I'm NOT saying spend months making perfect linked in facebook web page, or go bananas on your letters :). Quite the opposite - distill, distill, distill. Make it TIGHT where every word hits subconscious keyword in recruiter's mind, rather than having them read meandering thoughts. Others may disagree, but have an easily-discoverable social/internet presence that is slimmed and specific and generic enough to be inoffensive to absolutely anybody. Your website is personal, which I love; but you should have an entry page which is more generic and more attuned to random recruiters who might want to skim it quickly for any redflags. I like Derek Sivers' idea of "About/Now Page" [1]. Here's mine [2].
FWIW, and this is the harsh reality: 45 second scroll of your page, and there will be SOMEbody who'll be scared off by mentions of Masonic, Probiotic, Religion Course, Carbon Footprint, Poetry, and the APril 6 2021 photo :D. NOTHING wrong with any of those, but your goal now is not to fight for causes you believe in or defend yourself as a person, but get a better job; pass through as many filters as possible and don't get any inadvertent red flags. Laser focus on that :). Don't hide your page, but have a front landing page that gives random people the most succinct image of yourself that you want to put out there. My 100 Croatian Lipa :->
1: https://nownownow.com/about https://nownownow.com/about
2: http://nikolanovak.com/ http://nikolanovak.com/