Career change

It has occurred to me that I really would like to do something new, or do the same thing in a new industry. Question is, how to make the jump? Last week I applied to 5 roles and heard back from one - same industry, same role... It's not as easy as I hoped. I am however, very positive about the market and I'm sure I'll find something soon. Been chasing one opportunity that should have been in the 2nd interview stage by now - not sure what happened to that...

BlogRush

By now you may have noticed the "BlogRush" widget on this blog. BlogRush is a new syndication mechanism for blogs to provide links and traffic to similar themed blogs around the world. You can add BlogRush to your own blog by clicking the BlogRush tag on the widget... It will be interesting to see if there's any effect on the traffic to this blog ;-)

Looking for work

So here's he start of my "looking for work section". We will see how it goes.

I have noticed the way we now look for jobs has changed significantly from the last time I seriously looked, which would have been in 1994! (My last move, 7 years ago, classic social networking at its best, colleague of a colleague type of thing, so the last time I actually LOOKED was 13 years ago - "gulp - am I that old?"). Having said that, I did find that 1994 job online - oh yes, before the "web proper" we would scurry about in separate online (dial-up!) communities like "Compuserv" and in this particular case "Cix".

There's certainly a plethora of online sites to register with, and it does appear that most use keyword matching technology to send reasonably specific opportunities to one's electronic inbox. Its not perfect however, so far the funniest one I've had was for a Director's PA :-)

The skill now is to produce a CV with the right keywords so that the right roles land on one's doorstep!

Onward & upward