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How to Sell Me?

I have already mentioned I am still looking for work but am having no luck. All we hear in the news at the moment is not good and that it is getting harder each day to find work. Personally I am trying to maintain a positive attitude that eventually I will find something that I both enjoy doing and somewhere I want to work. Over the past few months I have mainly done my applications online gradually tweaking my cover letters and CV but no luck. I even paid a cv consultancy to make my cv represent me but still I have had no luck. When I used to work abroad as "IT Support" neither the title or the job description fitted each other. In essence my remit would be to catch a plane turn up at the premises and do whatever was required. This could mean desktop support, pc moves, server administration and upgrades to managing a networking cable infrastructure installation. As most of the overseas operations were small and finances restricted there was an ethos that if yo

The next minute - I am not technical!

Well it is finally now official after several years of procrastinating I have finally made the jump and created my first post (this is my second) from my Nokia 5800 aka Tube. There are many times when one gets up and say today I will.... but that is as far as one usually gets where we find a multitude of reasons of why we should not do something rather than putting the energy into actually doing it. I have been out of work since September last year after taking voluntary redundancy and as things globally have gotten worse I have been looking for "IT" work without much success. I have done the usual of posting my CV to several job boards, vigorously applying every week for jobs but no really no positive response. I get the occasional phone call from agencies seeing if I am available or following up applications I have made usually with a reason of why I am not suitable, I have switched Push email on my phone using IMAP IDLE with Profimail and jump each time I receive a m