Con Jobs

one thing I had realize until I was deep into my job search is that their are a lot of people trying to scam people looking for work.

one would think that the unemployed would be an odd target for con artist due to their lack of income.

but after being on a long job search I can see why we the out of worked are picked by the cons. I think there two reason these con artist prey on the unemployed.

1. They hop to leer in those who are new to job hunting. Like those who just graduated from college, because they are wide eyed and green behind the ears they make easy targets and have a lack of knowledge on looking for work.

2. desperation, is the other reason con artist target job seekers. When one has bills piling up and you've been out of work it easy to let your guard down and jump at any employment offer you receive, even the ones that if you even thought about for a fraction of a second you'd see that they seemed a bit fishy.

luckily the internet offers job seekers tools to help us avoid falling for these con artist's traps. we can quickly look up companies and find out if they are real or not and see if they have any complaints against them.

I got people

a little while ago (about a month or so) I applied for a job at H & R block.

I haven't heard from them since...until today. When I received a letter asking me to do my taxes with them.

I wonder by applying for the job did they but me on their junk mail list?

I HOPE this leads to good CHANGE

Well today we have a new president.

it does not matter if you voted for or against Obama. With the shape the economy is in we all need to get behind the president.

about

After months of searching for a job with no prevail I have decided to an alternative path to finding employment is needed.

So I decided to set up this blog to outsource the task of job hunting to those who maybe better skilled at it then I am or at the least by opening my job search up people who know of a job opening may inform me about it.

I am willing to pay 10% of the income from any job (for up to my first year of employment) that comes from this blog to the person who founds me a job*

ideally I would like a job in the area that I already live in, south eastern Michigan (near the Pontiac area would be best) but I am welling to relocate for the right job.


*I reserve the right to reject any job offer




If any there are any questions please respond to me in the comment section below.

skills and resume

Skills
MS Word
Excel
HTML (nothing fancy just enough to great a bare bones website)
Photoshop
PowerPoint

Education
BS in General Studies from the University of Michigan.
my focus of study was on economics and communications

Employment
2006 to 2008
worked for family owned business. duties included answering phone, marketing, market research and graphic design work (created fliers and other ads for the company)

2005
I did voluntary market research for a comic book company that never got of the ground

1998
I volunteered at my college's student run TV station as a telemarketer.
my duty was to try and get local business to advertise on the station.

1997
I was a teacher's assistant for a summer program ran at a local church.
my duties where to help a class of second and third graders with math and reading. As well as supervising them during the lunch and recess breaks.