Monster France and Other Useful Places to Get New Ideas

A friend invited me to join 'Monster France' on LinkedIn, and I did it because I've known Fred for quite a long time, and he insisted that it was going to useful to what we are all trying to do here.

He was right.

'Monster France' led me, by various roundabout routes, to a site called Secrets of the Job Hunt . It's an American Site sponsored by a radio show called Job Radio fm - and despite the fact that neither one is aimed at the UK, both sites are worth looking at, firstly because being unemployed presents more or less the same problems wherever you happen to live, and secondly because there is so much on offer there.

I was particularly struck by the podcasts that were available on the 'Secrets of the Job Hunt' site - like 'LinkedIn Tips for the Unemployed', for example - and the fact that there were so many links to so many different sites and so many radio programmes, all of which were aimed at helping people to get back into employment.

Do take the time to look, and listen to whatever is available. It really doesn't matter that it's all happening several thousand miles away. Advice on what to do and how to do it when you are unemployed are pretty universal. Which is how I got to 'Monster France'...

What worries me is that I had to go to 'Monster France' - and then to America - to get the sort of supportive programmes that are very much needed and should be available in the UK.

Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com/