Joey
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NETWORKING IS BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILL YOU WILL EVER LEARN IN EMPLOYABILITY AND BUILDING THE SKILLS YOU NEED IN A NEW VOCATION BY GAINING WORK IN YOUR CHOSEN FIELD. VOLUNTEER WORK CAN SEEM MINDBOGGLINGLY INEFFICIENT FINANCIALLY TO VEST A TON OF TIME IN, BUT IT MORE THAN PAYS OFF. IT LITERALLY BUILDS CHARACTER WHEN IT MAKES YOU ONE WITH EXPERIENCE AND PROBABLY SEVERAL PEOPLE TO NETWORK WITH PER VOLUNTEER GIG,
To follow, I'll write some tips on networking, and the reasons you should start (or continue) building on your social and communications skills. It doesn't matter how you feel about people or the world or anything, a well-communicated issue that is then brought to a resolution makes us all feel better. Communications are basically solutions.
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Communicable solutions like this are ones that often bring new opportunities. They are noticed by others, and they certainly hone the ones you're already working on and sharpen your skills and self-esteem through the completion of a task or job. We are the most social species in the world and we truly do depend on each other for nurturance. It's a bit like an RPG. The more you work at something, the more natural it becomes. Consciously working to become naturally well off in important areas of your life (like your professional working life) has a way of boosting your morale. Life satisfaction despite any problem.
That's resilience. Resilience is incredibly important too, remember that. I can cite my personal life experience to assure this is very true. Be good to yourself and find people to talk to personally as well. Human contact and nurturance is incredibly important. Ever had a hand squeeze on your shoulder and it made your day?
Even if you're really down on stuff and think people = shit - take note. That slipknot need not be tied just yet!this sort of nihilistic wisdom that comes along with realizing how corrupt some people and aspects of this world, humanity, and life itself. Like how the selfish needs our current human civiliations in energy are minutia next to the world we're carbonizing to a blackened reflection of our destructive tendencies? In disease and economic collapse we insulate our media and conspire to make short term comforts and gain prioritized over sustenance and especially for the evergrowing percentage if those in poverty. Almost 8 billion people live here when there was 5 1/2 upon my birth in 1991. Money is worth far less and housing is beyond expensive and everything else too.
Did you know that even Friedrich Neitzche wrote that meaning would be found in the end? I'm fairly happy, regardless of this fucked up world and an even more (to me) fucked up life where I have been taken advantage of and abused horribly. I've literally had my life taken in a stranglehold and been tortured at multiple points in my life. I'm invisible in these issues and still have so much trouble finding the right help. It's horrible, it's extremely difficult to talk about, but in that and in my life goals - I persist.
I tell people the best I can, and as honestly as possibly always about who I am and what Im trying to do. I care very much for the approval of, being good to, and taking it straight with others. And vice versa. The best times we will ever have are shared with others. We literally are the only animal with a true developed language and that's my backup to how much we can and should depend on each other for life satisfaction. I bet a well-placed opportunity set your way or for someone you love might cheer you up!
Now A basic TLDR version,
plus more points to list
PRACTICALLY
1. Beyond submitting a resume and CV, get in contact with HR, the recruiter, and whomever, and ask a question to spark a chat. Introduce yourself a bit on a personal level too but don't veer far from the subjects pertaining to the work you're looking to do.
2. Keep a portfolio or make one up. Anything is better than nothing, If you are creating a portfolio from a place of no experience, make the creation of your portfolio the experience, Put some effort into it and don't worry if you can't cite paid or published work. Anything is better than nothing, get creative.
3. Social media groups are very good places to network. When you're looking for a step up in your life look for people who are successful already.Make sure this is proven with citation. There are a lot of scams revolving around remote work. Not to mention a ton of people who have no job and no clue what they're talking about.
4.Continued from number 3... Even just for tips, introduce yourself to people who are way above your caliber. Meet many. Think about things a lot.Like everyone who is self-employed and remote, you are going to wind up developing your own ins and outs in your own style of employment and money management.
5. When you get a real offer, as in an actual contract either formal or informal from a real employer either paid or volunteer, you'll be able to tell the difference between a real and a fake scammy job like a paid article with an editorial team, and some cash out later survey filling cash tree falling in bills stacked yo your dreams (they’re 99% pretend jobs that stop paying a few dollars short of your minimum cash out trust me).
DO THE WORK!
You're going to fall into a circle of common people and employers likely in your particular niche and you do not want to develop a reputation for flaking off every time. Life happens, but when there's grass please cut it, the other side is irrelevant. Any grass is your life's work in networking coming to a paid or volunteer gig.
PROTIP: Volunteer is not just a good thing to do. It’s a resume builder and a half. And a half!
6. Avoid sites that are about surveys, proofreading, type scripting, data entry, etc. There are real jobs doing this, but this is also a network your way to a real and personal offer on the vast majority of gigs. The guys who are actually doing these gigs and actually earning a livable income are very secretive about how they came across their jobs - and what it is they actually do, for who? No one you’ll hear about from them.
It's normal to protect your assets and programs for success. If you don’t, you might lose them to copycat numbers 1, 2, and 3,000. When you’re in a position of help someday, be helpful and be 100% but don’t be in a way that signs over your strategy and employment to someone else. Do you see how I’m writing this article?
Even apps like Fiverr and your typical freelance apps are very tough eggs to crack unless you're already extremely proficient and professional in your chosen field. If you are, you probably aren't in need of this list,
if you're buying into a too good to be true seeming sales pitch or a freelancing app, the chances of actually excelling to succeed in those companies and positions are next to none. Your competition is in the millions of people from all over the world, including economies where people will work to insane levels of proficiency for mega hours and a few bucks an hour. It's not a healthy sector.
7. REFER YOURSELF TO YOUR LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS INSTEAD AND SELL YOURSELF HARD. THERE IS NO SHAME IN WRITING SOME GOOD SALES COPY. GOOD-SIZED EGOS ALONGSIDE CONFIDENCE ON PAPER AND IN PERSON ARE BOTH HEALTHY SKILLS AND BELIEFS TO HOLD ABOUT YOURSELF. GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK DUDE!
8. Do not be afraid to contact anyone. The worst answer you’ll get is no answer or no. Always be informal and respectful, to begin with.Do NOT go on any tracks to talk about how you can’t find anything, don’t know what you’re doing, nobody cares, any negativity or impulse to relay frustration you have looking for something and the state of your world, therefore, the fact you're asking for help at all says enough. Be positive.
9. MOOCs, courses of any kind, and work programs are great places to start. When you do these, make sure you spend some time talking to the instructors and professionals who are conducting the course for you. Expand on skills you’ve already got too. Even if you already python inside out, take a basic and intermediate course to reinstall the basics and especially to NETWORK.
10. if you’re in college or university. NETWORK, YOU ARE IN THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD TO NETWORK! Even if you aren’t enrolled in uni, check out Harvard and Yale and places like that and contact people on staff or whomever you can get an email on and ask questions.
11. Government websites are full of good contacts as well. From your municipality and all 5e way to your federal sites. For instance, the Canada.ca federal site has something like 2000 researchers who all have their emails and phone numbers up. The pentagon in the US has contact information for its staff. Feel free to contact these guys, they’re emails are up for a reason. Sometimes you may get a response that will teach you something brand new or change your life.
12. Your friends, family, acquaintances, enemies, whomever, They’re all resources for you to guide your life by. And if you just ask the right way (appeal to their edge over you on an issue) they may very well be glad to share their wealth of knowledge with you, Most people are pretty happy to think they’ve got some good information to share and show off their skills by. People normally love themselves and each other.
13.Even if you aren’t particularly confident in your abilities, portfolio, or skillset - be confident in what you do have. If your skills are limited. Keep a limited account of them and then add ambition with some citable and true actions you’re taking to remedy this. Our visions looking forward are almost more important than being pro. If you’re certain in your ways, you’ll get things done. You’ll inspire people to like you with this attitude and they may give you a chance.
14. Study others. This can be through reading up on their stories and published advice (like what I’m doing here) or by watching videos and documentaries with the same purpose. Make sure the people you’re watching are actually the ones who are successful in what you want to accomplish. The rest can be an example of what at the very least seems fishy and in some cases are obvious scams to watch for. Developing a keen eye for the absurd and scammer is a good skill to have as well.
15. be focused. If you are working on a skill. Work on that one skill and not ten at a time, one really good skill is going to get you places. You can learn skill 2 and 3 on a different schedule. For instance, place 3 hours to python, 3 hours to HTML CSS JS, and 2 more hours to seek programs to help subsidize your journey and seek people to study, network with, and share your progress!
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