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maelorin at 09:53pm on 30/07/2005 under brand me, employment, interviewing, personal branding
maelorin at 09:53pm on 30/07/2005 under brand me, employment, interviewing, personal brandingwell now. so i'm supposed to be thinking about brand ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maelorin™®. this is what i get for talking to a hr consultant at a recruitment agency. what the eff!!
a half hour conversation left me with a page of doodles. and a mess of keywords. and some vague impression that i'm supposed to be thinking about myself the way marketing n00bs think about chocolate bars and condoms. (perhaps i confuse myself.)
so now i'm supposed to become a hr expert on top of everything else. no wonder neurotypicals never get any work done, if you're spending all your time with all this crap.
"q1: what are [maelorin's] core values?"
"q2: what are [maelorin's] key skills?"
"q3: what value can [maelorin's] add to a team/organisation?"
etc ... oh forfuckssakewhatthefuckisthisshitohfuckingcocksucker!
if i come in second or third for every job i get interviewed for, what does that say about me? employers? this stupid merry-go-round i'm not quite on. [dougal? where's dougal? brian? ermentrude?]
if i'm almost as good at everything as the people who actually get the job - am i applying for the wrong jobs? or just not making my pitch work for me? [that question led to the conversation about personal brands mentioned above.]
feedback post-interview suggests that it is experience that separatesmaelorin from a job. even at entry level. aarrgghh!
how do i get 'relevant' experience if they define 'relevant' to mean 'employment'. what about all that voluntary experience i have. oh, it looks good on my resume. fucking excellent. looks good. wtf!?
what jobs should i be applying for?
and how do i sell this brandmaelorin if i've not been able to sell just plain old maelorin?
... coming up in the next episode ... what is 'personal branding' and how can it help you fall asleep at night knowing you've done all you can to position yourself in this new(ly named) craze that sweeping the (hr & marketing) world ...
maelorin™®. this is what i get for talking to a hr consultant at a recruitment agency. what the eff!!a half hour conversation left me with a page of doodles. and a mess of keywords. and some vague impression that i'm supposed to be thinking about myself the way marketing n00bs think about chocolate bars and condoms. (perhaps i confuse myself.)
so now i'm supposed to become a hr expert on top of everything else. no wonder neurotypicals never get any work done, if you're spending all your time with all this crap.
"q1: what are [
maelorin's] core values?""q2: what are [
maelorin's] key skills?""q3: what value can [
maelorin's] add to a team/organisation?"etc ... oh forfuckssakewhatthefuckisthisshitohfuckingcocksucker!
if i come in second or third for every job i get interviewed for, what does that say about me? employers? this stupid merry-go-round i'm not quite on. [dougal? where's dougal? brian? ermentrude?]
if i'm almost as good at everything as the people who actually get the job - am i applying for the wrong jobs? or just not making my pitch work for me? [that question led to the conversation about personal brands mentioned above.]
feedback post-interview suggests that it is experience that separates
maelorin from a job. even at entry level. aarrgghh!how do i get 'relevant' experience if they define 'relevant' to mean 'employment'. what about all that voluntary experience i have. oh, it looks good on my resume. fucking excellent. looks good. wtf!?
what jobs should i be applying for?
and how do i sell this brand
maelorin if i've not been able to sell just plain old maelorin?... coming up in the next episode ... what is 'personal branding' and how can it help you fall asleep at night knowing you've done all you can to position yourself in this new(ly named) craze that sweeping the (hr & marketing) world ...
cranky