JOBSEARCH: Always be pitching and expressing your Unique Value Equation

Sunday, May 20, 2007

FROM AN EMAIL TO A FELLOW TURKEY:

>actively job hunting in XXXXX, preferably something financial. Please feel free to look over my profile.

Hello,

I read your post in XXXXXXXXXXXX and was moved.

Moved to tell you that you missed a great opportunity to express your Unique Value Equation.

By way of background, I’m a big fat old turkey, who counsels fat old white guys on how to find a job. I do it as a way of repaying all the people who have helped me in the past with my transitions. And, Intelligent Designer forbid, build up a wealth of Karma for my next transition.

I have some resources that I offer to seekers over at my turkey farm.

Go directly to the “turkey farm”
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
http://tinyurl.com/lxu93

I urge you not to be “actively job hunting”, but to express what you are going to do for someone that will unlock value for the both of you.

So if you had said something like:

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I’m seeking my next opportunity where I will count beans for someone, as one spammer said “most excellently”. Preferably in Gotham City, Alaska area, but I’m open to a relo. Preferable as a full-time employee, but I am flexible. I’m not rich, so I’ll need compensation. There to I’m flexible.”.

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See the diff?

You get the idea. Give people something to hang their hat on. I prefer informal and funny. You have to get them to read it, remember it, and act on it.

I use the Big Fat Turkey as a funny hook in people’s mind. (Hey, what was the name of that lunatic who thought he should be a CTO of an G50 firm. We’ve got the perfect position as a WalMart greeter for him. What a turkey he was. Yeah that’s it. Big Fat Turkey. Let me google that.) Hey it works for Coke, Ford, and Victoria’s Secret. Why not for a big fat old turkey. Guarantee you’ll think of me some thanksgiving, and say what a bird brain! If you don’t swear off turkey altogether.

Or course, you can connect to me on LinkedIn (reinke reinke reinke reinke), but I’m out of invites. Actually, I’m saving my last 100 for my own “next transition”.

I have job search and LinkedIn tips on my blog all categorized for easy reading.

Hope this helps.

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Note:

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/tag/jobsearch/ has all the jobsearch items 170+ for “easy” reading.

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/tag/linkedin/ has my LinkedIn tips (only 15+ but some very good ones imho)

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LIBERTY: gooferment skoolz are a bad idea

Sunday, May 20, 2007

FROM A LETTER TO THE LOCAL PRAVDA

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It’s no secret that I think gooferment skoolz are a bad idea. This, and all the other school bus accidents, are just one symptom of the consequences. It’s a bad idea that is why the gooferment has to FORCE us to do it!

(If it was a good idea, it could be voluntary and everyone would agree to do it.)

(Note: Gooferment is used because no one can name a government program that works, at all, in any way. Let alone one that is effective or efficient.)

Why is the gooferment running schools? Why does a parent hand over the most precious thing they have to the custody of the state for a majority of their waking hours? Why do I have to pay to educate your child in subjects and a manner that neither of us agrees with?

Anyone care to guess why American “education” is heading to the bottom on the international scale? Anyone care to guess why costs head for the moon while results set new lows? Anyone care to guess why the children think they are in prison, bored to tears, and learn nada that’s important? Anyone care to guess why the gooferment can’t keep drugs out of their prisons … oh I meant skoolz? (You can see the similarity!)

No, when you’re in LA with a map of New York, you have to recognize that the 415 doesn’t go by the Empire State Building. So to, when you’re in an Education Mess, you have to see the exit.

Separation of Gooferment from Education!

Please ignore the self serving anguished cry from the Teacher’s Union, Politicians, Bureaucrats, and all that make their living from the dole that we call “public education”. (It’s neither “public”; nor “education”.)

Let’s do the right thing. Free the taxpayer slaves. Open the school doors and let the children go!

Does anyone think that children will NOT get an education if the State doesn’t mandate it? Maybe they might even learn something that their parents want them to learn, if the State wasn’t in the way.

Hopefully, we can throw away a “wrong map” before we hurt ourselves.

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