Another potential waste of time.
In my quest to find employment, I've joined LinkedIn which, although seemingly quite popular, I have never heard of before in my life. So I filled out all of the blurb, sounding just as ridiculous and insincere as all job applications do, and had it scan my Gmail for other users. It only picked up a couple of Radio 1 publicists, who I doubt can be of much help, but at least it stops it saying "Glen has no contacts", which makes me look like a benefit squatter in the making. Oh, wait...
The trouble is that I have no idea what the etiquette of something like this is. It's like being at a party full of strangers. On my own. In Budapest. Do I know these people well enough to have as a contact? Do I just send people a random message to make a link? How much detail do I put on my biography? What do I ask for?
The Job Centre (curse them and curse them again) signed me up, in their infinite wisdom, to an agency called Renovo. Although it sounds like dog chew treat, it's supposed to give advice on job searching. This is all very noble, but all it has helped me with is in expending my confusion. The website is a maze of links, all of which appear to lead to the same five pages. There's a calendar, a diary, an interview scheduler and a rather pompously-named reference library. Brilliant, but I found it much easier to invest in a notebook and a pen. More to the point, it doesn't actually find any jobs - it's not a recruitment agency. So after all of your planning and scheduling and CV re-writing, you're still none the wiser on where the vacancies are. Perhaps I'm just doing it wrong. Perhaps it's bullshit.
The trouble is that I have no idea what the etiquette of something like this is. It's like being at a party full of strangers. On my own. In Budapest. Do I know these people well enough to have as a contact? Do I just send people a random message to make a link? How much detail do I put on my biography? What do I ask for?
The Job Centre (curse them and curse them again) signed me up, in their infinite wisdom, to an agency called Renovo. Although it sounds like dog chew treat, it's supposed to give advice on job searching. This is all very noble, but all it has helped me with is in expending my confusion. The website is a maze of links, all of which appear to lead to the same five pages. There's a calendar, a diary, an interview scheduler and a rather pompously-named reference library. Brilliant, but I found it much easier to invest in a notebook and a pen. More to the point, it doesn't actually find any jobs - it's not a recruitment agency. So after all of your planning and scheduling and CV re-writing, you're still none the wiser on where the vacancies are. Perhaps I'm just doing it wrong. Perhaps it's bullshit.