Despite Having Lots Of Expertise To Use, Potential Employers Will Not Be Encouraged

I am in an awkward situation. I need a job very quickly. I have plans in hand which will, I am certain, provide in the extended term with doing affiliate marketing and the SEO which supports the fishing site which I am operating. No, this isn’t the challenge. What is, is the meantime which is near enough, by my calculations, now. My private resources have eroded into the red levels and this is why I have to have a job.

The problem I have with that is that my talents are, to be blunt, hopeless to a prospective employer. I have stacks of them, don’t get me wrong, I know things and can do lots of stuff perfectly well utilising the knowledge I have. The difficulty is that nearly all of the stuff of which I speak is self taught and not really been used commercially. Let me use an example.

In the spring of last year, I saw an ad at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which wasn’t something I had heard of about, but that wasn’t an issue according to the ad. So I emailed and spoke to one of the directors of the firm which was called Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day will never dawn when you’ll be pleased I said that). I consented to meet him at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we talked more and I was very pleased with the man who’s name is Jim Akin (see brackets above) and really wanted to work with him. I was required to pay for the training (as explained in the advert which was two and a half grand + VAT but since[ I had some money due from my late grandmother’s will, I borrowed the money, met Jim again at a Job Centre in Leamington and passed it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed renumerated work on completion at good rates, it wasn’t a gamble.

By the time I got home, the training website was open for me and I got under way. It took about 6 weeks to finish, a bit longer than I had hoped but once I was getting towards the finish, I emailed Jim to let him know I was nearly ready for the 1st client he had promised to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to say that he was in the process of putting the contract in place for my initial client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a website they had constructed for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were trying to sell it and the domain name. I was happy to do that and I went about doing real world SEO.

Anyway to cut a long story short, Kalmindon and Jim and John Akin were operating a scam. There were no customers and never had been, the entire motive was to get folks to pay for an SEO training program and fob them off for as long as possible. But in the meantime, getting to the point where I understood that I had been tricked had taken many months and during that time I had gone through an awful lot of my own cash including most of the estate my grandmother had left me. I attempted to arrange some freelance SEO employment for a while and promoted my own website which offers SEO, affiliate marketing services as well as IT support and software consultancy to small business in the Stourbridge area.

As this was not working very quickly I examined affiliate marketing as a possibility and made a decision to have a go, built a website and signed up for several affiliate marketing programs and inserted businesses with an angling theme on my site. So now I am running the SEO and it is scaling rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet near the top, so I have been learning pay-per-click advertising as well to bring in traffic in the meantime.

So you see I don’t really have much that a prospective employer would see as regards SEO and exclaim “that’s the lad for us” as what I have is not real commercial experience and the same must be said for php programming and web design skills as I learnt myself when I needed to learn them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a commercial sense and the rest of my computing competencies were last used so long ago as to be completely useless now. And of course, I do not have a degree. If I did of course, there’d be no problem since of course I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it wasn’t crucial in the mid-80′s. All I can offer is experience and knowledge. If there’s no alternative, I’ll have to go on the game, drive down to the harbour and work my passage aboard ship.

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