{"id":310,"date":"2012-01-18T05:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/new-feature-for-accessible_jobs-followers-job-seeker-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T05:51:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:51:03","slug":"new-feature-for-accessible_jobs-followers-job-seeker-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/new-feature-for-accessible_jobs-followers-job-seeker-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New feature for @Accessible_Jobs followers: Job seeker of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow my Twitter account @Accessible_Jobs, then you know that accessibility and assistive technology related tweets drop into your stream several times a day.&#160; If you are a job seeker, you can click on the links attached to the tweet, which will take you to the employer and job description page, and immediately apply.&#160; The jobs are available throughout the U.S., and since some of you may be in a position to relocate,, I do not limit the tweets to a specific geographical location.&#160; Besides, why limit the possibilities?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have written to me, asking me for additional help.&#160; While I have explained to each of you that I am not an employment service, all I do is post job tweets, some have appealed to me in an effort to gain additional exposure, which of course, is what any job seeker should do&#8230;leverage any advantage, any contact, so as to get that edge.&#160; Well done.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve been mulling over an idea that I think I&#8217;d like to try.&#160; In addition to the daily job tweets, i&#8217;m going to roll out a new feature for my followers that I&#8217;ll call, &quot;This Week&#8217;s Featured Job Seeker.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The idea is to showcase one individual for one week, highlighting their skills and abilities, type of opportunity sought, and other promotional information.&#160; In each tweet, I will link to a resume, Linked In page or other professional profile page, a blog or web site on which relevant information appears.&#160; The goal is to raise your visibility, connect you with other contacts and potential employers.&#160; I will post ten tweets about you throughout your week.&#160; If you like, you may supply the tweet.&#160; In fact, it is preferable that you send me a list of ten tweets, that way you are ensured the precise wording and preferred tone, along with the correct link.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Think it can&#8217;t work?&#160; Well, who knows.&#160; We cannot predict in life what contact leads to which connection that places you right where you need to be.&#160; Remember, luck is preparation meeting opportunity.&#160; Sometimes, the line between point A and point B isn&#8217;t always a straight one, and by contacting me, you helped spark this idea, which just may land you a job.&#160; Think it over, and if you&#8217;d like to participate, I&#8217;m here to help.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Here are the rules of the game: <\/p>\n<p>1:&#160; You must have your professional data residing somewhere online, with a permalink to the page.&#160; I will only link to your professional profile information, I will not link to your Facebook page.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>2:&#160; I must be able to review your information, at least, to some degree, to ensure that I&#8217;m not promoting your effort to publicize your latest MLM scheme or porn video release.<\/p>\n<p>3:&#160; If you are out-of-country, and seeking a job in the USA, all of your work permit documents must be in order.&#160; No, I will not be checking them, this is the honor system here, but if you are contacted by an employer and you are not prepared to travel, you have wasted everyone&#8217;s valuable time, particularly mine.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>4:&#160; You must be willing to listen to my suggestions as to how to improve upon your presentation.&#160; No, I am not going to rewrite your resume, but if there are spelling or formatting errors that I know will work to your detriment, you must at least be willing to hear what I have to say.&#160; I will not require that you take my advice, but please be open to it. <\/p>\n<p>5:&#160; I will feature one job seeker per week, but I may not feature one every single week.&#160; How often I feature a job seeker will be left entirely to my discretion. <\/p>\n<p>6:&#160; Whomever is chosen to be the job seeker of the week will be left entirely to my discretion. <\/p>\n<p>7:&#160; I will not in any way personally vouch for your skills and abilities.&#160; I cannot vet each of you, and again, I am not an employment service.&#160; Unless by some chance, we have worked together in some capacity, or I know you personally, I can only promote your work search effort, not endorse your viability as an employee.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>8:&#160;&#160; I will not accept any sort of compensation whatsoever.&#160; Therefore, I reserve the right to take a break to earn a living.&#160; Thank you for your understanding.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>9:&#160; I make no warrantees or guarantees of any kind whatsoever.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>10:&#160; Do not operate heavy machinery while using this service, do not use while bathing, swimming, or near standing water.&#160; Contents unfit for human consumption, do not ingest.&#160; If irritation persists, please discontinue use.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>If you would like for me to feature you, please use the accessible contact form on the Accessible Insights Blog home page, and drop me a note.&#160; I will be happy to answer any questions you may have.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>To search jobs: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.accessibleinsights.info\/a\/jbb\/find-jobs\">Click here to go to the AT Work job board.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>To post job openings on the AT Work job board: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.accessibleinsights.info\/a\/jbb\/post-job\">Click here to go to the posting page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>LL    <br \/>&#160; <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2d721c5d-77a2-4480-ba35-6d34a55ade30\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/accessibility\" rel=\"tag\">accessibility<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/assistive+tehcnology\" rel=\"tag\">assistive tehcnology<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/disability\" rel=\"tag\">disability<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/jobs\" rel=\"tag\">jobs<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/development\" rel=\"tag\">development<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/usability\" rel=\"tag\">usability<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/work+search\" rel=\"tag\">work search<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow my Twitter account @Accessible_Jobs, then you know that accessibility and assistive technology related tweets drop into your stream several times a day.&#160;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/new-feature-for-accessible_jobs-followers-job-seeker-of-the-week\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New feature for @Accessible_Jobs followers: Job seeker of the week<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-advocacy","category-at-work","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}