This is funny:
When I first started looking for jobs over a year and a half ago I did a little reading: “What Color Is Your Parachute?”, “Crossing The Unknown Sea”, and endless articles with advice on landing a job.
What I noticed is that, while jobs themselves were scarce, articles and books about jobs were plentiful. Imagine that?
So I did some research and wrote a very good and informative piece on how to get a job. And just as I suspected, I was far better at writing about it than acually doing it.
I never got the article published because writing is a very insular industry and major newspapers are generally unionized. This means that freelance submissions are not permitted.
I asked Woody White from the Greenville News about that very issue when I called him to gauge interest in my article. He promised to “take a look at it”. This meant that I would take the time to write the piece and he would take the time to tell me he couldn’t publish it.
Well….we see who gets the last laugh!! It seems I am now an expert in job hunting (although I am still unemployed). Content from my article, published nowhere but on this site, is quoted alongside other reputable sources at BeyondTheResume.com as providing “professional” insight on the art of job-hunting.
Here is the link: http://www.beyondtheresume.com/testimonials.aspx. Mine is the third quote.
Anybody else need any expert advice??
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