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Jobslogging Week 2
Well, week 2 and still not hired!
However, I made some good moves in a job-seeking direction, including attending my first Networking event -- a 'breakfast' at Right Management, which is the career search counseling firm, so it was just with my fellow job-seekers there, but it was a good dry run for other events. I spent most of my time talking to the two other tech people there, a DBA and a senior QA engineer about Bad Tech Management we've known.
Most of the other people in the room are former managers, directors, vice presidents and such -- I got the 'professional' severance package from my former company, all right. If anything, it makes me just a little more at ease with going out on interviews, because I should know by now that people who interview you are people, too. I really do expect I'll be presenting myself a whole lot better in general than I used to.
I also entered my full resume over at LinkedIn and gathered a few more direct connections there. (If any of my Flisters are already on it and would like to link to me, or if they would like to get onto it, just let me know, okay?), and sent either a link to that off or the text version of my resume to several offerings on the Right job bank and stuff that I found at LinkedIn's job listings.
So far I've gotten two queries back asking to look at my resume... not exactly a land-slide, but promising all the same. Another avenue I'm looking into is connecting up with the job recruiting firm (still in business!) that hooked me up with my contract-to-perm job ten years ago, on the theory that they'd probably be glad to be able to work again with one of their success stories. We'll see....
I just went out to an SF-writers gathering over dim sum in Chinatown, and gave my brand-spanking-new business card to a couple people who said they would pass it on to their work places, so who knows? I printed out the card this week, finally, after fiddling with it quite a lot, and finally deciding to go with it and use a picture (this in miniature) of myself in the lower right corner because this is my Networking Card and I want them to remember what I looked like when I hand it to people. Where you put a company name, it reads: "application architecting * workflow designing * info managing * db wrangling".
And yes, I know 'architecting' isn't a word. I swear I will work for half-price for any prospective employer who tells me that.
However, I made some good moves in a job-seeking direction, including attending my first Networking event -- a 'breakfast' at Right Management, which is the career search counseling firm, so it was just with my fellow job-seekers there, but it was a good dry run for other events. I spent most of my time talking to the two other tech people there, a DBA and a senior QA engineer about Bad Tech Management we've known.
Most of the other people in the room are former managers, directors, vice presidents and such -- I got the 'professional' severance package from my former company, all right. If anything, it makes me just a little more at ease with going out on interviews, because I should know by now that people who interview you are people, too. I really do expect I'll be presenting myself a whole lot better in general than I used to.
I also entered my full resume over at LinkedIn and gathered a few more direct connections there. (If any of my Flisters are already on it and would like to link to me, or if they would like to get onto it, just let me know, okay?), and sent either a link to that off or the text version of my resume to several offerings on the Right job bank and stuff that I found at LinkedIn's job listings.
So far I've gotten two queries back asking to look at my resume... not exactly a land-slide, but promising all the same. Another avenue I'm looking into is connecting up with the job recruiting firm (still in business!) that hooked me up with my contract-to-perm job ten years ago, on the theory that they'd probably be glad to be able to work again with one of their success stories. We'll see....
I just went out to an SF-writers gathering over dim sum in Chinatown, and gave my brand-spanking-new business card to a couple people who said they would pass it on to their work places, so who knows? I printed out the card this week, finally, after fiddling with it quite a lot, and finally deciding to go with it and use a picture (this in miniature) of myself in the lower right corner because this is my Networking Card and I want them to remember what I looked like when I hand it to people. Where you put a company name, it reads: "application architecting * workflow designing * info managing * db wrangling".
And yes, I know 'architecting' isn't a word. I swear I will work for half-price for any prospective employer who tells me that.
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