Get Hired Boot Camp Dot Com?

I learned about Get Hired Boot Camp Dot Com from an advertisement that came to me via the International and Insolvency Professionals Group on LinkedIn. The advertisement was posted by Ryan A. Scarborough of Voidray Marketing Solutions.

Mr. Scarborough has next to no profile at all on LinkedIn and, so far as I can see, neither he nor Voidray (nor 'Get Hired Boot Camp.dot.com'!) has anything to do with credit or insolvency. Moreover, if you Google 'Get Hired Boot Camp' you will see that whilst it offers a free webinar, it's also selling some very expensive courses and is looking for affiliates - people who will sign up and pay up and go on to offer a free webinar based on the free webinar and so on, and so on.

Judging by Mr. Scarborough's input on LinkedIn, he has signed up and he has paid up and is now doing his best to make something out of nothing using whatever tools he can - and I suppose that one can't blame him for using them very badly.

The Job Centre may not be an exciting place to be, and it's no fun answering advertisements and sending out endless CV's and trying to stay positive about your prospects, but it's certainly better than signing up and wasting time and money buying into schemes that are - like the Boot Camp - deliberately targeted to attract people who are unemployed, and having a hard time getting a regular job.

Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com

Tweetyjobs.com?

Sorry we've been away so long! I was surprised, today, to see no one had written anything for over a month.

Sadly, none of us were really on holiday. Bill has been rebuilding his late mother's cottage from scratch practically single-handed since the Spring, and has been working hard all through the summer to get finished before winter. Geoffrey just got back this weekend from visiting family for a couple of months. Unless you count 'taking up the slack' as a valid excuse for ignoring you for over a month, though, I'm afraid I haven't got one.

Anyway! The silly season is almost over, Geoffrey is back, and Bill's cottage has heating, windows and floorboards, and we can hopefully get to normal now - although I'm not sure that what I want to tell you about today is going to be very useful.

I had an e-mail this morning via Secrets of the Job Hunt Career Podcast that was talking about Tweety Jobs .

Despite the Twitter-like birds on the website, and Freshout's (don't ask!) input, Tweety Jobs is not genuinely part of Twitter - and it isn't part of Secrets of the Job Hunt, either. It seems to be something quite new that is being run by someone called Matt Blyth, and it was posted as part of a blog on Secrets of the Job Hunt by Chris Russell,who runs a series of on-line Job Boards in the United States.

I frankly wasn't impressed by the Tweety Jobs site (or its 'tweety' title!) but if enough people use it, it might become what it's trying to be - 'the worlds truly employment-centric social network'. Or it might not. But it's worth signing up just in case it does.

In the meantime, if you haven't signed up to Secrets of the Job Hunt - you could be missing out. Many of the Podcasts are useful and interesting wherever you live.

Emily - http://www.therapypartnership.com