Although I Have Loads Of Skills To Work With, Potential Employers Will Not Be Encouraged

I am in a difficult situation. I have to get a job very urgently. I have plans in hand which will, I am sure, be fruitful in the extended term with regard to affiliate marketing and the SEO which promotes the fishing shop which I am operating. No, this is not the issue. What is, is the meantime which is round about, by my calculations, now. My own funds have shrunk into the red zone and this is why I have to have a job.

The difficulty I have with that is that my talents are, to be blunt, hopeless to a future employer. I have lots 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 things 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 answered an ad at the Jobcentre Plus website advertising SEO, which was not something I knew anything about, but that did not matter according to the ad. So I emailed and had a chat with one of the directors of the company which was called Kalmindon Ltd (hopefully the day won’t come when you’ll be happy I said that). I arranged to meet the guy at a Job Centre just north of Birmingham and we chatted more and I was really taken with the fellow who’s name is Jim Akin (see brackets above) and really wanted to work with him. I needed to pay for the training (as explained in the ad which was 2500 + VAT but because I had some money coming 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 renumerated work on completion at favourable rates, it wasn’t a risk.

When I got home, the teaching website was available for me and I got going. It took about six weeks to finish, somewhat longer than I’d intended but as I was coming towards the end, I emailed Jim to notify him 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 throes of getting the contract in place for my 1st client, but in the meantime I could get some practice by working on doing the SEO for a website they’d done for a client that had gone out of business but they were attempting to sell it and the domain name. That was fine to do that and I set 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 third parties and never had been, the complete motive was to get people to pay for an SEO training course and fob them off for as long as they could. But in the meantime, arriving at the point where I understood that I had been done had taken many months and in the meantime I had gone through an awful lot of my own resources including nearly all of the money my grandmother had left me. I made an effort 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.

Because this wasn’t working very quickly I had a look at affiliate marketing as a possibility and made a decision to have a go, set up a shop online and signed up for various affiliate marketing programs and placed firms with a fishing theme on my site. So now I am doing the SEO and it is moving rapidly up the search engine rankings but is not yet close to the top, so I have been creating pay-per-click advertising as well to bring in traffic in the meantime.

So you see I do not really have much that a potential employer would view as regards SEO and say “that’s the lad for us” as what I have is not real workplace experience and the same must be said for php programming and web construction competencies because I instructed myself when I had to acquire them for something I was doing and have only very limited use in a business sense and the rest of my programming knowledge base were last used so long ago as to be totally useless now. And of course, I do not 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 was not 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 harbour and work my passage aboard ship.

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