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What You Should Be Doing If You’re Unemployed Applying to jobs you’re not qualified for (which 50% of job seekers reportedly do!) is counter-productive to your job search. Competition is too fierce. Even qualified applicants aren’t getting callbacks. So, stop applying to so many jobs and allocate time each week to becoming more hirable. Here’s how… 1. Volunteer Volunteering can increase your chances of being hired if you’re strategic about it. Unemployed teacher? Help out with after school programs or volunteer to be a coach’s assistant. Web designer? Find a local non-profit in desperate need of a re-design and offer your services pro bono. By volunteering somewhere relevant, you’ll keep your skills fresh whileenhancing your resume. 2. Keep Your Skills Current If you lack a skill commonly required for jobs you’re seeking, spend time each day building that skill. Take advantage of numerous free resources online, including tutorials, e-books, and how-to videos. If you’d rather have more of a class setup, then look for free or affordable adult education classes in yourarea. Alternatively, if you already possess the necessary skills but haven’t been practicing, the do so. Skill atrophy is a huge concern for hiring managers, so practice and get yourself ready for pre-employment skills tests. 3. Network There are two parts to networking: reconnecting with your old contacts and forming new ones. Depending on where you are in your career, reconnecting might mean contacting professors, college advisers, and internship supervisors, or it might mean getting in touch with old colleagues, bosses, and business acquaintances. Find them, e-mail them, call them. Ask them to coffee. Ask how they are (networking is social, after all) and let them know the specifics of your job search (industry, location, etc.). See if theyknow of anything or anyone. Most importantly, follow up! At a temporary dead-end with your current contacts? Make new ones. Go to networking events sponsored by your university, industry, city, and so on. And look beyond traditional networking events. Consider going to lectures, neighborhood council meetings, even community bar crawls (go easy on the sauce). Each of these provides an opportunity to meet people with similar interests, and you can have fun in the process. Again, follow up! 4. Freelance Some job seekers are opposed to anything that’s not a full-time job. If this sounds like you, it’s time to change your mindset. Freelancing is a great way to boost your skills, resume, portfolio, professional network, income, and confidence. Search for freelance openings here. 5. Build An Online Presence Get found online. Start a blog, spruce up your social network profiles, create an online portfolio to showcase your work. Find companies you’re interested in working for, subscribe to their blogs, andfollow them on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Find decision-makers at those companies and follow them as well. Learnwhat they’re talking about, do a little research, and then engage with them online. Impress them with your interest and insights. Worst case scenario — you’ll learn what’s important to them and use this information to customize your application when a job opens up. Better case scenario — you’ll establish a rapport with someone who will recommend you for a position and/or tellyou about unpublished openings. Best case scenario — you’ll impress someone so much over time that they’ll create a job for you or bring you in for anexploratory interview. What are you doing to become more hireable?

HOW-TO-START-BLOGGING.............Like every thing else, the first step to successful blogging is knowing what blogging is, and how to achieve success andsatisfaction towards your blogging experience. Here, I want to start by trying to explain what comprises blogging, probably the definition of BOGGING! According to Wikipedia.Org . Blog is a contraction of the term " web log " which is a type of website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events known as Post, or other material such as graphics or video. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to add content to a blog . Many blogs provide commentary or news ona particular subject; A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages and other media, related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many a blog. Most blogs are primarily textual,although some focus on art, photographs, videos, musics (like mp3 blog) and audio known as podcast. Simpler than that, it is easier to blog than to decide what to eat for dinner tonight. Therefore, put away all your fears about blogging and lets see how I can be of help towards the kick-start of your blogging. Before you decide on what to blog on, we have to get down and put first thing first. The check list: Idea - You need to have an idea on what to blog on and you are not alone when it comes to that, there are various means you can use to research your ideas. Download VRE Toolbar from VREToolbar.Com( Not sureabout the stability of the toolbar ) and install it in your PC, its very helpful in many ways as you will find-out. Use it to do your keywords and niche research and come up with idea and choose a Niche for your blogging. Or you simply start with what you are passionate about Register A Domain - Choose a domain that ismost appropriate to your chosen niche or you can make do with a "sub domain" like yourname.blogspot.comif you are using Blogger as your blogging platform or yourname.wordpress.comif you decide to go with Wordpress. I personally blog with both custom domain name and free sub domain name, so the choice is your. I've written about the two Blogging systems. Get A Host - When I say host I mean a webhost, you need this except you are usingfree host provided by Blogger and Wordpress which is ideal for beginners, of course even professionals and long time blogger uses it as well. You can start with the free host or you Get yourself paid host. Please, do further research before you decide on which hosting company to go with. Blogging Platform - Choose a suitable blogging platform: Blogger.Com- This very blog is on Blogger.ComOwned by Google. That means, I use blogger as one of my favorite blogging platform, you needs a Google account and you can start blogging within a minute. Its free to use and comes with exciting features. You can make do with one of the existing templates which is fully widgetized or download and install custom template. Details about "custom template" in my subsequent posts. There areother great blogging platforms and open source blogging softwares like: Wordpress, Typad, Profy, MovableType, Textpattern, Space by MSN etc. One outstanding blogging platform is Profy, a new player in the blogging arena according to Squiddo , is a one-stop web platform for all things blogging. Described bysome reviewers as a social blogging platform, the Profy solution provides a singlepoint of comprehensive access to the full range of activities involved in blogging, fromreading and sharing news to publishing posts and networking with other bloggers and readers. Profy's vision is to provide bloggers with all the creative tools they could possibly want - in one place namely, Profy blogging platform. Keyword Research - Essential if you are blogging for profit and for search engine ranking.If you are blogging for income, you need to know how profitable is the niche you have choosen, that is where Keyword research comes into play. Besides, search engine indexes each blog and website according to its keyword orientation, therefore, you'll need to choose which keyword you would like your blog to be indexed on. Google Keyword Tools is very essential as I aerier mentioned, if you haven't downloaded it, quickly go over to VREToolbar.Comand get a free toolbar. Its free and take less that a minute to install. When you install it, scroll over to keyword section, pick your search option begins your research. Social Bookmarking -Subscribe to social bookmarking tools like Del.ico.us and others. Open an account with social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and many others but these three are the most popular among others. This will make it easier for your blog readers to follow you onany or all of these social networking places. It easy to get an account with any of these bookmarking and social networking sites, just go over there and follow there the stepsto get a free account.

How to Install Custom Blogspot Template in Minutes Blogger based Blogs are really enjoying good time on the Internet -- competing favorably with it's WordPress counterparts due to the huge collections of spicy templates that are now available for the taking. Gone are the days when you have to put up with the default Blogspot templates no matter you like it or not -- you can now do almost impossibles with varieties of templates out there for free. Yet, many are not currently using custom blogspot templates not because they don't like it but because they don't know how to install it. But it's really simple to install and anyone can do it. You need to spice up your blog now to the delight of your Blog users or maybe you are just starting your Blog newly, you should start off on a beautiful look. In these short tutorial, I want to explain how to search, download and install custom blogspot template within minutes. 1. I assume you have signed up for Blogger and created your free Blog site. If not, go to Blogger here to get your default blog set up in minutes too. Add some contents to give it structure, add about 5 - 10 blog posts 2. Go to Google and search for your choice Blog template, you may use these keywords as I used to "Free blogspot template" when you type it on Google, you will get the similarresult below. [image] 3. Go to any of the above link from your Google's search result -- browse through thevarieties of templates and make your choice according to your need. Chose a template that best fit your niche. Below is one of the samples of templates you'll see on the template sites -- under the template, you'll see two buttons Demo and Download . Use demo to test how the site will look in real life, and download to grab the template. Download and save it on your hard drives. [image] 4. The template will be downloaded in a compressed zip. Having downloaded the template, the next step is to extract the compressed file. The file when extracted maylikely contain tutorials on how to edit and use the template, follow the instruction or go back to your Blogger dashboard. Design => Template => Backup/Restore. When you click on the Backup/Restore button, you'll see something like the image below on a pop up window. 5. Click on the Browse button to take you to where you saved the template on your computer hard drive -- go to the location of the file and click on it. Then click on Upload to get the template uploaded to your blogspot blog. Once the upload is complete, the new template will overwrite the previousdefault template you have. Then follow the instruction that will be provided to you by the template designer to edit your new template. Congratulation! YourBlog now have new look

Photopgraphy Business Can Give You Wealth and Legacy! Get Pro CAMERA and Get Started Photography is much more than the little pictures you used to capture with your mobile phones and micro cameras, Photography is much more than snapping pictures -- after all, everyone can take a pictures. But beyond taking just ordinary pictures, Photography is an Art! There are Three different ways in my own opinion you can work as a photographer and any one of them you chose is very viable. If you can combine all the three, that would be even better. I will encourage you to embrace the whole aspects of Photography and see how it goes. Professional Photographers makes plenty of money. Read this excerpt from elophotos and you will understand what I'm talking about: I was in a workshop organized for photographers. One of the speakers, Ali Baba, talked about how a “PROFESSIONAL” photographer called him in January to “thank” him for a referral. A few weeks priorto the call, Ali Baba had contacted the photographer to ask how much it will cost for a portrait session for a “high profile” client. The photographer gave him a bill of $12,000for the session after which 32 high resolution soft copies will be delivered on a DVD. He replied the photographer that the client only had a budget of $10,000 & they both settled for $10,000 for 30 high resolution soft copies. As if that wasn’t shocking enough, the bigger shocker came when Ali Baba mentioned that the reason the photographer called him was to thank him because the client ended up ordering a total of 142 high resolution soft copies. The 142 soft copies amounts to about$45,000 which is equivalent to N7,020,000 . You know what? The professional Photographer could as well be you. It can happen to anyone who falls within these categories of photography. Studio Photographer - The way studio photographer works is Open a studio and equip it with all the studio gadgets, then wait for customers to come for photo shoot or portraiture. Types of people that patronizes photo studios includes Models, Customers who wants to take personal photos, and those that needs passport photographs. Event Photographer - This is the Photographer who specializes in covering events such as: Weddings, Anniversaries, Luncheon, Burial Ceremonies, Carnivals, Sporting Events, etc. They also shoot commercial photographs for adverts and productions. Studio equipments may not be necessary except Hi-Tech Cameras, Laptop, and Lenses. Travel Photographer - This is the type of Photographer I called 'Content Photographers' They go about capturing places, beautiful land scape, events, people, and nature. Different other photography cango into Travel photography. Travel Photographer basically sells photographs to would be users rather than charge money totake photographs. The Photography Equipments You Will Need Professional Cameras - If you aspires to become a Professional Photographer, you must not do without Professional Camera. They are really expensive but worth every penny spent on them. Prices for professionalcameras starts from N150,000 and can be ashigh as N1,500,000. Read Cnet reviews aboutsome of the best Professional cameras available. Brand to go for are: Nikon D800, Canon EOS 5D, Canon EOS 7D, Olympus E-3, etc. Do not compromise quality when sourcing for your cameras. Professional Lenses - Another 'must not do without'. Professional Lenses are as costly asCameras or even more. One of them is -- CN-E 85mm T1.3 L F Cine Lens . EF Mount Prime Designed for Cine-Use For Canon C-Series and Full-Frame DSLRs. Achieves Telephoto Look. 11-Blade Rounded Diaphragm. Stepless and Manual Diaphragm Ring. 300˚ Barrel Rotation. Superb Available Light Performance. Strong Bokeh and Circular Highlights. Supports 4K Recording Quality. Swaps Easily with 24 and 50mm Relatives. Prices starts from N150,000 Pro Laptop - Cheap Laptop will not be good for your editing work. Remember you'll be working with Adobe Photoshop, look for pro laptops between 4-6GB Ram, Core i3 - i7 Intel machine. Prices starts from N120,000 Other equipment includes: Studio lights Memory cards light modifiers Soft boxes Umbrellas Tripods Reflectors and Diffusers. Background supports systems Studio Props: Chris, Stools, Curtains, etc! Note: You'll need to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and other Softwares like Coral Draw for your photo editing. Maybe you takeone month to learn all these. Once you're through, you're good for business.Drop a comment below or ask your questions, I wish you success in this business

Photopgraphy Business Can Give You Wealth and Legacy! Get Pro CAMERA and Get Started Photography is much more than the little pictures you used to capture with your mobile phones and micro cameras, Photography is much more than snapping pictures -- after all, everyone can take a pictures. But beyond taking just ordinary pictures, Photography is an Art! There are Three different ways in my own opinion you can work as a photographer and any one of them you chose is very viable. If you can combine all the three, that would be even better. I will encourage you to embrace the whole aspects of Photography and see how it goes. Professional Photographers makes plenty of money. Read this excerpt from elophotos and you will understand what I'm talking about: I was in a workshop organized for photographers. One of the speakers, Ali Baba, talked about how a “PROFESSIONAL” photographer called him in January to “thank” him for a referral. A few weeks priorto the call, Ali Baba had contacted the photographer to ask how much it will cost for a portrait session for a “high profile” client. The photographer gave him a bill of $12,000for the session after which 32 high resolution soft copies will be delivered on a DVD. He replied the photographer that the client only had a budget of $10,000 & they both settled for $10,000 for 30 high resolution soft copies. As if that wasn’t shocking enough, the bigger shocker came when Ali Baba mentioned that the reason the photographer called him was to thank him because the client ended up ordering a total of 142 high resolution soft copies. The 142 soft copies amounts to about$45,000 which is equivalent to N7,020,000 . You know what? The professional Photographer could as well be you. It can happen to anyone who falls within these categories of photography. Studio Photographer - The way studio photographer works is Open a studio and equip it with all the studio gadgets, then wait for customers to come for photo shoot or portraiture. Types of people that patronizes photo studios includes Models, Customers who wants to take personal photos, and those that needs passport photographs. Event Photographer - This is the Photographer who specializes in covering events such as: Weddings, Anniversaries, Luncheon, Burial Ceremonies, Carnivals, Sporting Events, etc. They also shoot commercial photographs for adverts and productions. Studio equipments may not be necessary except Hi-Tech Cameras, Laptop, and Lenses. Travel Photographer - This is the type of Photographer I called 'Content Photographers' They go about capturing places, beautiful land scape, events, people, and nature. Different other photography cango into Travel photography. Travel Photographer basically sells photographs to would be users rather than charge money totake photographs. The Photography Equipments You Will Need Professional Cameras - If you aspires to become a Professional Photographer, you must not do without Professional Camera. They are really expensive but worth every penny spent on them. Prices for professionalcameras starts from N150,000 and can be ashigh as N1,500,000. Read Cnet reviews aboutsome of the best Professional cameras available. Brand to go for are: Nikon D800, Canon EOS 5D, Canon EOS 7D, Olympus E-3, etc. Do not compromise quality when sourcing for your cameras. Professional Lenses - Another 'must not do without'. Professional Lenses are as costly asCameras or even more. One of them is -- CN-E 85mm T1.3 L F Cine Lens . EF Mount Prime Designed for Cine-Use For Canon C-Series and Full-Frame DSLRs. Achieves Telephoto Look. 11-Blade Rounded Diaphragm. Stepless and Manual Diaphragm Ring. 300˚ Barrel Rotation. Superb Available Light Performance. Strong Bokeh and Circular Highlights. Supports 4K Recording Quality. Swaps Easily with 24 and 50mm Relatives. Prices starts from N150,000 Pro Laptop - Cheap Laptop will not be good for your editing work. Remember you'll be working with Adobe Photoshop, look for pro laptops between 4-6GB Ram, Core i3 - i7 Intel machine. Prices starts from N120,000 Other equipment includes: Studio lights Memory cards light modifiers Soft boxes Umbrellas Tripods Reflectors and Diffusers. Background supports systems Studio Props: Chris, Stools, Curtains, etc! Note: You'll need to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and other Softwares like Coral Draw for your photo editing. Maybe you takeone month to learn all these. Once you're through, you're good for business.Drop a comment below or ask your questions, I wish you success in this business

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