{"id":9360,"date":"2020-01-15T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:44:10","slug":"pretty-good-morning-job-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/01\/15\/pretty-good-morning-job-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty good morning job searching&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"dollar-sign.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dollar-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Dollar sign\" width=\"260\" height=\"365\" border=\"0\" \/>Of course it&rsquo;s only sending out applications. But at least there were companies requesting the applications.<\/p>\n<p>The proof will be if any of these applications generate follow-ups.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve also taken a look at creating a personal web site to augment the job search. Many companies seem obsessed with their employees having a social media presence. I&rsquo;m not into social media, so I&rsquo;m thinking that perhaps a website would be a way to split the difference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve noticed that most recruiting sites have places to link your personal web page. So I figured I&rsquo;d give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t really like social media because it&rsquo;s a time suck. In order to have a robust social media you have to have been at it for a while or send updates at minimum daily. I don&rsquo;t have that much interest or time. Generally speaking, I&rsquo;d rather be actually living keeping my phone in my back pocket instead of fiddling with it all day long.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s interesting that many people with my same model phone often complain about the battery life, while I have no trouble at all with the battery in my phone lasting almost 2 solid days. The only difference is that my phone is usually in my pocket instead of lit up all the time.<\/p>\n<p>I like technology and I use it, but I don&rsquo;t live on it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s an age thing. I think of it as a values thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it&rsquo;s only sending out applications. But at least there were companies requesting the applications. The proof will be if any of these applications generate follow-ups. I&rsquo;ve also taken a look at creating a personal web site to augment the job search. Many companies seem obsessed with their employees having a social media presence. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/01\/15\/pretty-good-morning-job-searching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretty good morning job searching&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}