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Welcome to this exploration of job hunting. Enjoy these stories and add your own! Please comment, by clicking on the link beside the envelope icon at each posting. Tip: For an overview see 'Contents'. Or scroll through the 'Blog Archive'. On this home page, blog postings appear in date order with the most recent first. In the right column you'll find several groups of links and pics as well as polls for you to cast your votes. Thanks for your suggestions to improve this site. (Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.)

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Contents - search terms
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Which famous scifi writer was once a porter, builder, cleaner, bodyguard?

Clue: He wrote, performed and directed stage revues in London, Cambridge and for the Edinburgh fringe. As well as writing books about the universe and everything,  he was a radio producer and script editor of Doctor Who.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Met my new class today

Yes, some classes run on Sundays - they're keen Year 9s - as you'd expect if you were paying for extra tuition on the weekend. I see them again in a fortnight. They're using a friendly Australian workbook in the Excel Essential Skills Series published by Pascal.

Online training

There are some excellent tools and learning management systems out there.  Some workplaces expect their recruits in training and development to have experience using particular systems. Moodle is one. Webducate is another: http://www.webducate.com.au/blog

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Illustrator/writer - Shaun Tan's beginnings

Everyone has to start somewhere! This snippet from award-winning children's book writer/illustrator, Shaun Tan:
'...to see if I could make a living as a freelance artist. I had actually been illustrating things while a student as way of making money – drawing for magazines, newspapers, book covers, music posters, flyers and newsletters, mostly around campus, plus selling the odd painting. I pretty much learned all my current illustration techniques through doing these small jobs.' See http://www.shauntan.net/faq1.html

Monday, April 4, 2011

Small successes...

Some class tutoring work I applied for two months ago has suddenly come through as a job offer (it's only an hour and a half a week but will cover the cost of travel to the location and then some...). (Thanks Lyn and Alex for your encouragement.) And another group I do work for said of my failures at interview: 'Ah, their loss, our gain!' and offered me extra sessions. Thirdly I've rejigged some tafe offerings to maybe attract people on Saturdays.