Looks like a scam to me : Personal Shopping Assistant!
Good afternoon!
We found your resume at _________________ and we would like to propose you a
position of Personal Shopping Assistant.Imagine having an exciting job with incredible salary (up to $100,000/year) that
lets you use your creativity while being paid to shop. Welcome to the world of
personal shopping!As we know shopping is the world’s favorite leisure activity, but in our busy
society an increasing number of people need to hire someone to do their
shopping. Thus personal shoppers are more in demand than ever before.There are absolutely NO START-UP FEES and NO FEES for being employed at this
position. As long as you live in the USA, and you have a credit card or any
other line of credit, have 1 or 2 free hours during the day – you are eligible
for this job!
This is what you will have to do in short:
• Purchase the requested goods using your credit card.
• Send us receipts.
• Wait for us to issue a credit to your credit card in the amount of purchase
plus shipping fee plus your commission which comprises 10%.
• Ship out the goods.
• You are finished, come back for a new list of goods.
5 ways to improve your chance of getting hired.
Having seen the economy this week, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is time to redo all the important essentials and get all my ducks in the order as they say. I’ve been thinking of how best to be ready in case the dreaded day comes when my employer no longer needs my assistance and what could I do to be prepared.
- Get Someone to Critique your Resume — This is the most important step because this is the first place employers look when they want to hire someone. So how do you get it critiqued? Here are some good links to help you start off with: Careerbuilder Critique, Mind of Root Peer Critique(Last until Oct 30, 2008).
- Have your Resume Ready to upload to Resume sites – You should always register at all the important resume sites just in case. The Sites that I recommend are : Monster, Career Builder, Hot jobs, Dice, US jobs, Best Jobs USA, Computer Jobs, and Nation Job.
- Use your website as a place to put your Resume – Have your resume available in case some contacts you and tells you they know someone who is looking to hire people. Have this resume hidden and only give it out to people you know. This is also known as networking.
Calling all Geeks: Keith’s SysAdmin Meme
In response to the Mind Of Root Podcast, I’ve decided to add my own comments. I think Keith had a brilliant idea and wanted to add my answers to this. So Here goes:
How old were you when you started using computers?
I was around 9 or 10 when I started using a TI-994A!
As you can see this was very fun to use because of the fact that you had to use cartridges to play games on. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like some of the programs in basic and Basica before Dos came around. I learned so much from the system. You could create the complex programs and save them to a tape. It was before the 3 1/2 floppy. It was hard work to make these programs but I loved every part of it.
What was your first machine?
This goes back to the first question. My first Machine was the Ti-994a. You could have game cartridges and such, I loved that little machine. I would come home from school and program , play with the System or taking it apart. I enjoyed it so much I still like to use my basic emulation to program!! I’ve got so many fond memories of the system and to this day will always enjoy it.
