Although I Have Plenty Of Skills To Use, Prospective Employers Won’t Be Encouraged

I am in a tricky position. I have to get a job very urgently. I have schemes in hand which will, I am certain, provide in the extended term with working affiliate marketing and the SEO which enhances the fishing shop which I am operating. No, this isn’t the issue. What is, is the meantime which is near enough, by my calculations, now. My private finances have shrunk into the red levels and this is why I need a job.

The challenge I have with that is that my competencies are, to be honest, rubbish to a prospective employer. I have loads of them, don’t get me wrong, I know stuff and can do lots of stuff perfectly well using 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 give an example.

In the spring of last year, I replied to an advert at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which wasn’t something I had heard of about, but that did not matter according to the ad. So I replied and was rung by one of the directors of the company which was called Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day won’t arrive when you’ll be glad I informed you of that). I consented to meet the chap at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we talked more and I was highly impressed 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 ad which was 2500 plus VAT but as I had some money due from my late grandmother’s estate, I borrowed the money, met Jim again at a Job Centre in Leamington and handed it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed renumerated work on completion at favourable rates, it was not a risk.

By the time I got home, the training website was open for me and I got under way. It took about six weeks to do, rather longer than I’d hoped but when I was closing towards the end, I emailed Jim to let him know I was about ready for the first client he had guaranteed to supply. John Akin rang me a few days later to tell me that he was in the throes of putting the contract in place for my first client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a site they had written for a client that had gone bankrupt but they were looking 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 running a con. There were no customers and never had been, the whole scheme was to get people to pay for an SEO training program and fob them off for as long as they were able. But in the meantime, arriving at the realisation where I realised that I had been tricked had taken many months and in the meantime I had used up an awful lot of my own cash including most of the estate my grandmother had left me. I tried to find some freelance SEO jobs for a while and promoted my own website that offers SEO, affiliate marketing services as well as IT support and software consultancy to small business in the Tipton area.

As this was not working very quickly I examined affiliate marketing as a possibility and made a decision to have a go, created a shop online and signed up for several affiliate marketing programs and inserted companies with an angling emphasis on my site. So now I am creating the SEO and it is moving rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet close to the top, so I have been writing pay-per-click advertising as well to direct traffic in the meantime.

So you see I don’t really have much that a possible employer would view as regards SEO and say “that’s the chap for us” as what I have is not real workplace experience and the same can be said for php programming and web building skills since I taught myself when I had to learn them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a commercial sense and the rest of my IT competencies were last used so long ago as to be totally redundant now. And of course, I don’t have a degree. If I did of course, there’d be no issue because obviously I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it was not critical 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, go down to the shipyards and work my passage aboard ship.

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