There are tons of websites to find a job, that's the thruth

 

There are tons of websites to find a job, that's the thruth

So? There has been a long time since my last post, I've been starting so many projects including some business and stuff and today I'm back to write about this topic which is not even close about the last posts.

So if you are looking for some networking or computing cheat, that's not your post :)

I'm here to think and write about job hunting websites and all about those things.

There was an age...

There was an age where sites like linkedin and infojobs were cool sites to find a job, but, to be honest the have lost that charming brand new magic and they are just a huge curriculum store.

And now what? what's the trend?

That's the point, there are no reference in this matter, it becomes a problem when you are trying to upload your CV to the Internet because you need to keep up-to-date from three to ten profiles in different websites which are roughly the same thing.

There are no fashion sites, the trend now is that there is no trend; and that's a real problem.


I've no tips about which site is the best, so that's my idea, create your own.
Maybe it looks a bit crazy, but it's just an idea.

My own site? What kind shit is that?

Ha ha! You may be right, it could be crappy if you do by the wrong way and the problem is... that there is no best-way but I think that this may be a good chance to take the attention about a head hunter / human resources crew if you make the difference by sending your CV just all-in-one by sending a URL.

Some examples?

I've no examples but I have some ideas to tell to you:

- Create a easy-quick-free site using services like blogger. This is easy to do and free, the only problem may be the low customization level.
            www.blogger.com

- Contact with cheap webhosting services like 1and1 "my web" or something like this, they are intended for small business but you can try it. They have medium customization level.
           www.1and1.com

- You can try too by contacting the MiniWeb guys, they are a brand new website design&hosting company, they just started a few months ago but they are doing quite well. You can contact them both in English or Spanish, you'll find a very cheap service packs. Can contact by facebook, twitter or send a message from the web form contact.
          www.miniwebspain.tk


We are legion

The lazy guy

The lazy guy and the engineers

When I started to work, some time ago, there was a guy who was already working there, just a year before me.

Then, my working team was formed by seven or eight people, they all was people that studied the same career as me.

All of them but one was engineer. Early working was great, we were happy at work.

Just a few months after, when I was talking with him who wasn't an engineer, he told "I'm very happy because I've the same job as an engineer without the need of studying. I think studying is not important, all of you've been wasting your time"

This was an issue that turned me so angry but I finally thought that he was not serious and he has no intention to hurt us. I never believed how much I had mistaken.

During this while our teamwork was growing and growing, a few months after I started to work six or seven people more increased our team. All of them were engineers too but this one, this one who was happy to not to be an engineer.

I can't remember when, but I remember I told this conversation to a new component of our team, he couldn't belive that, but when the time was passing some of my mates had similar conversations with this guy.

Bi-yearly our company gives a price to the hardest worker people in the company, to the three to five most able to do his/her work.

Our team has become important in our company, not for be the most pretty, not to be hard workers, just to be one of the teams that earns more money.

Due to that, the site manager selected our team to win the price, that was great! one of us will be rewarded to all the work we do all days, great!

From my view, this changed the course of our working trajectories. Our manager selected the "lazy man" to win the price, that was really frustrating.

the guy who told us that we wasted our time in university?
the guy who is the laziest one?
the guy who never done his work at time?
the guy who always accomplish to "balance/share" his work to another team mate?

Yeah, that really happened.

Today, the engineers in our company are still waiting for the end of the story because all stories has a happy ending.

We're waiting the ours one

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The story of the baker and the computer engineer

Today I'm back to tell you a story, the story of the baker and the computer engineer.

Some time ago there was two friends, one of them works as baker and the second one went to the university and completed a carreer, computer engineer.

During this time,  the baker was working some years and he earned some money and every friday and saturday night he went out to the disco and pubs

In this same years, the second friend (the one who is engineer today) had to study very much but this is a work which didn't return him any money, he couldn't go out due to he had no free time neither money.

He had to leave his family and go to other city, bigger than his. He knew new people and fight very hard to get what he wanted.

Those years became harder and harder due to the friend who went to university couldn't see inmediate benefits.

Between this years, there was a weekend when they met. They were talking one or two hours about their histories.

The baker friend asked the another one to go home and try to fix his computer. The second friend went thinking to help his friend, he tried and he fixed that computer, he spent about three or four hours on that fixing.

The next day, at morning the friend who was studying went to the bakery's friend, he requested two pieces of bread, he really thought his friend will invite him due to the work of the previous day but his friend said "this costs 3€, please".

The student friend get so angry and told: "Do you really want to be paid? Don't you remember the work done yesterday"

And the baker friend replied: "Oh! really! I want to be paid, the work you done yesterday had no cost for you!"

The student friend paid and had never talked again to his old friend never.

Eigth years after,  the student has become a computer engineer, he lives in a rented house but has enough money to go to other countries, to travel around his own country, he has free time to go out with his girlfriend...

Eigth years after, the baker friend is still a baker and works very much to earn his money, day and night.



That story is based in my own experience. I'm not the baker friend.
Right now I'm on the roof of my house with my PC and a very cool beer, my old friend should be working, I think.




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Differences between to work with computers and to be a informatic professional

Lots of times we heard: "My brother/sister/cousin... is a computer expert, he/she works in a big company"
Most times, he/she will break down our PC and then a real computer expert is needed (and very well paid).

In the last twenty years many people decided to become computer technician by reading a few magazines or manuals, most of this people today is between fourty and fifty years old and they think they are the most expert guy in their company.
More over, most of them has not completed any universitary career, even most of them never tried to start those studies.

Nowadays, we have two generations of "technicians": the older one who thinks they are the most expert in the company and the newest one, where most of them are computer engineers trying to adquire the work that they should own.

From my own, the first technicians has improved their jobs and they are now supervisors and managers of the new technicians. Some of this managers feels that their jobs are threatened by new technicians, who have more powerful updated knowledge; they feel can loss their jobs and need to fight this new technicians.

From my own experience, in the new generation of technicians there is high qualified smart people and others who are not smarter and qualified than other, that's very usual.
I saw many times how this medium-qualified engineers promotes their jobs and get major opportunities due to their manager feels lower danger to theirs jobs instead to promote a great engineer, due to this engineer implies a threat for their job status.

Just some months ago, my manager told us "You must do your jobs well or very well, but not excellent!, this is the way to improve in a company"

I hope you are not in this case because if you are a excellent engineer, you won't promote, due to "you are a threat" to your manager.

Nowadays, that's the difference between to be a computer worker or to be computer proffessional.


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