I Learned A Wide Range Of Expertise To Offer, Future Employers Will Not Be Encouraged

I am in a tricky situation. I have to have a job very quickly. I have schemes in hand which will, I am positive, be fruitful 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 dwindled into the red zone and this is why I require a job.

The difficulty I have with that is that my skills are, to be brutal, useless to a possible employer. I have lots of them, don’t get me wrong, I know stuff and can do plenty of things perfectly well employing the knowledge I have. The trouble is that practically all of the stuff of which I speak is self taught and not really been used in anger. Let me give an example.

In the spring of last year, I replied to an ad at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which wasn’t something I knew anything about, but that didn’t matter according to the advert. So I replied and was rung by one of the directors of the company which was named Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day won’t come when you will be pleased 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 pleased with the bloke 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 2500 + VAT but because 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 gave it over. And since Jim and Kalmindon (jointly owned with his brother John, see previous 2 brackets) guaranteed paid work on completion at favourable rates, it wasn’t a risk.

When I got home, the teaching website was open for me and I got under way. It took about six weeks to do, rather longer than I’d intended but once I was getting towards the winning line, I emailed Jim to let him know I was nearly ready for the first client he had promised 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 initial client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a site they’d constructed 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 operating a con. There were no customers and never were, the complete motive was to get people to pay for an SEO training programme and fob them off for as long as they were able. But in the meantime, getting to the realisation where I realised that I had been defrauded had taken many months and during that period I had spent an awful lot of my own cash including nearly all of the legacy my grandmother had left me. I attempted to get some freelance SEO work 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 Black Country area.

Because this was not working very quickly I investigated affiliate marketing as a possibility and made a decision to have a go, built a site and signed up for several affiliate marketing programmes and inserted companies with a maggot drowning basis on my site. So now I am doing the SEO and it is moving rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet near the top, so I have been creating pay-per-click advertising as well to attract traffic in the meantime.

So you see I don’t really have a great deal that a possible employer would look at as regards SEO and cry “that’s the man for us” as what I have isn’t real workplace experience and the same must be said for php programming and web construction competencies because I learnt myself when I required to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a commercial environment and the rest of my IT knowledge base were last used so long ago as to be pretty much redundant now. And of course, I don’t have a degree. If I did of course, there’d be no issue because of course I could do anything if I was a graduate, but it wasn’t important 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 shipyards and work my passage aboard ship.

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