Im unemployed. What can I do to improve my CV? Are those paid courses on coursera or sites like that worth something?What else could I do to improve my chances of getting a job? I studied something like business and finance.
networking > everything else
>>33832697Er, all moocs like coursea are paywalled now.https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-preview-mode-paywall/
>>33832743I dont even have friends, how do I network?
>>33832762Im willing to pay if they are worth something
>>33832697The job market is completely fucked due to mass immigration, Ai, outsourcing and spiteful millenials and boomers who will fuck you over just because.I have no idea how anyone is supposed to get a job with a livable wage in today’s economy.
>>33832807I apply to like 30 jobs every week and none of them calls me. I used to get many interviews a few years ago when I was unemployed, but I always failed them because of my lack of social skills. Should I try to become a full time gambler? Or is there any way to become self employed?
>>33832817>Or is there any way to become self employed?You can start a small business basically any time you want for just a couple hundred bucks, which would officially make you self-employed. The difference, however, is what you do to actually make money - cut grass, fix computers, sell 100% ice, you need to figure out what value you bring if you're going to go the self-employment route.
>>33832840The problem is that I dont want to go all in for the self employed thing because Im in an age where I need to get work experience related to my field or else Im fucked for the future. So it has to be something I do while looking for a job or a self employed thing related to my field, wich I dont know how to do
>>33832861>Im in an age where I need to get work experience related to my field or else Im fucked for the future.Technically speaking running your own business, especially one where you manage others, gives you quite a bit of work experience, especially in business and finance. Will you learn specific tools and trends? Probably not, unless you tailor your business to the industry you're trying to land a job in. But you would be surprised at how many employers value the soft skills that come with running a small business. Case in point: I work in IT, currently as a director for a medium sized nonprofit, and what set me apart from the competition wasn't my work experience as a sysadmin (because trust me, my resume looks like shit since I bounced around from job to job), it was the three years I spent running a grocery store. It doesn't seem like the two should go together, but my responsibilities included managing people, solving problems and balancing budgets - all things that set me above other IT guys who applied (and, as a bonus, it made me memorable and gave me something interesting to draw from, instead of just focusing on the same IT anecdotes everyone has).Now I'm not saying being a small business owner is some magic bullet to get a job, because it is work. Work that fucking sucks most of the time. But that work does reward you in the end, even if it doesn't feel like it does.
